ATTEMPTED MURDER AND TEIPLE SUICIDE.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4681, 8 January 1884, Page 2

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND TEIPLE SUICIDE.

News is to hand (says the Fiji Times) from Savu Savu of a murderous attack which was made in the early part of last week by three Fijians upon Mr Volmer, and its singular culmination in the suicide of his three assailants. It appears that the three men entered Mr Volmer's store when all his labourers were absent, and became so insolent and unruly, that Me Volmer ordered them to leave. This they refused to do, whereupon he endeavoured to eject them, and they in turn as* saulted him, one seizing an axe, and in the attempt to cut him down inflicting a severe wound on his shoulder. The native infor-.: man!; states that the white man fought so hard that the Fijians could not kill him,' but after subjecting him to other serious injuries they looted the store, rifled his cash box, and having also stolen, his gun, fled into the bush, in a short time a general pursuit was undertaken, and after it had been continued three days the men were found in the bush hanging to trees quite dead with their plunder around them. The bodies were allowed to hang until the stipendiary magistrate, Mr M. Heffernan, arrived and ordered them to be cut down. Mr Volmer is expected in town by the Emily Miller when full particulars of this affair will be obtainable. There, however, appears to be no doubt as to the fact of the assault and suicide of the assailants.