GIANT NEGRO RUNS AMOK.
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY ON A STEAMER. (Bx Eleotrio Telegraph—Copvbioht.) (Per Prebb Association.) Received April 29, 9.40 a.m. • ■ : ' LISBON, April 28. While the Portuguese steamor Africa was carrying 203 European passengers and four hundred Negroes in the hold for';tho cocoa plantations a black seven'■"fcet_ tall "and'of giant strength ran amok. With a heavy axe ho killed six Negroes ;■ and. wounded eighteen. "He escaped from the hold and killed two Europeans and wounded five before being fatally' shofi'
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9226, 29 April 1912, Page 5
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79GIANT NEGRO RUNS AMOK. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9226, 29 April 1912, Page 5
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