ATTEMPTED MURDER AT TONGATABU.
Wri are indebted to tlft'Rev. Mr Moulton, theihead-niaster of the college at Tonga, tabn, for the folio wing particulars of an •attempted murder on that island, which 'occurred about a foj , tn i ight before the departure of the f ■K&aWr#(!f $ vfpuldbe murderer is one Bootliroyd, a storekeeper, andhis inteojiecl Yietim .i\lr,T^po l d,an |agent of Messrs: Gbaeffrdy'anti :(?<>./ thei great German firm, who nearly mojiopolise tho .trade-iof>. : therjFriendly Islands. It appears'that Boothroyd's wife died about two month's ago, and since that time been in a desponding state ; ; ; which o atLdntier ; vals j ;d.e ; veloped,into right-clown insanity. Onihe evening of the' occurrence Boothroyd went into Jfr Trood's house with : a ; ;loaded> gun/, afterwards found to be cli'argecL with no less than seven bullets,' Trood was in the front room, and as Boothroyd came in laughingly said, '"You look warlike this evening' Boothroyd."" '•'Tes" answered the 1 assassin, •"I mean-to shoot you." Upon this he attempted to level the' weapon at Trood, but'. that gentleman sprang r u'p,:aiidj grasping; the" barrels pre.-, veiited the wretch's purp'o36, at the same calling loudly 'for', help,; ..jUponjthis;:ia native rushed in and Boothroyd was overpowered and disarmed.'■, HeV.washa fevf days afterwards tried formally by .■Kingt-Gre'orge'/an'd 'a .jury half;.'-European.' and half Tongese. He'was found guilty, but recommended to mercy oh-the ; ground; of insanity. No sentence was pronounced* and it was'not decided when the 'Kehilworth' left what should be done.with the prisoner; It was generally thought he would be banished,to,a,desert;island, iirr ~'
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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1856, 4 July 1874, Page 3
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