MDRDER OF A SOLDIER BY MALTESE BOATMEN.
Lkttiuw received from Malta stato that Charles Andrew, a private in the Berkshire Regiment, was brutally murdered by some Maltese boatmen on the 22nd of March, in a quarrel arising from an attempt to charge extortionately for the hire of a boat. JTo was first thrown overboard, and when he rose and clung to the boat ho was boated about the head with oars till he sank. One of his companions, a trumpeter named Sutton, who had remained in the boat, was then bound and gagged and landed at Isola Point, where lie was left to his fate. He succeeded, however, in getting back to his quarters, where he reported what had occurrc.l, and the murderers have been arrested. .
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2683, 8 June 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)
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126MDRDER OF A SOLDIER BY MALTESE BOATMEN. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2683, 8 June 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)
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