MYSTERIOUS WRECK OF A SCHOONER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9044, 10 March 1908, Page 5

MYSTERIOUS WRECK OF A SCHOONER.

A SENSATIONAL SEQUEL

Received March 10, 1.13 a.m. SYDNEY, March 9. A sensational sequel to the recently reported mysterious wreck of a schoonir with a man and a cabin boy aboard at Apamarna Lagoon, Gilberf Group, is to hand by the Island steamer Germania. Hayes, an employee of Burns, visited the wrecked schooner and obtained the following statement from the cabin boy, Jackson: —"A schooner named the Neuvre Tigre, sailed imrfer the Italian flag, being owned by the master and mate, left Callao early in November with a cargo of fifty-tons of coke. The crew consisted of the captain, mate, a cook (a Belgian named Mortimer) and Jackson. On the first day out the cook attacked the mate with a tomahawk, wounding him in the head. The latter escaped into the rigging. The captain, hearing the scuffle, came out of the cabin', and the cook felled him with a tomahawk. Then he secured a gun and compelled the captain and mate to jump overboard. The cook scared Jackson into assisting him to jettison the cargo, and do other work. The <:ook told Jackson that he intended to call at Tahiti, and then go to Australia, where he hoped to sell the schooner. After they had drifted about for weeks they were finally driven ashore at Apamarna." This statement is similar to the confession Jackson made to the Island authorities at the time of his arrest.