THE BUSH VELDT CARBINEERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 82, 8 April 1902, Page 5

THE BUSH VELDT CARBINEERS.

THE MURDER OF A MISSIONARY

HOW THE DEED ' WAS

COMMITTED

(Received 9.48 a.m.)

LONDON, April 7.

The widow of the Rev. C. Heese has written a letter to the Berlin Missionary Society relating what she knows of her husband's death.

She says that when the eight Boers who surrendered were shot coloured men were left to bury the bodies. After the discovery of these murders Mr Heese went to the camp of the Carbineers to show his passport. In pursuance of his previous promise that what had occurred would never be known, the officers of the Carbineers allow red him to proceed, but compelled him to attach a white flag to his waggon.

Mr Heese met Van Royen,- who reported that there were no marauders about.

A lieutenant, either Murray (? Morant) or Hancock, with a patrol, followed Heese.

The lieutenant ordered his followers to disperse .to the bush. He himself galloped ahead and passed Silas (this name is interpreted as that of Mr Heese's black boy). Mr Heese was murdered, and the lieutenant returned to camp.

The guilt of the lieutenant could not be proved as there were no eyewitnesses of the mnrder.

LONDON, April 7,

The Bush Veldt Carbineers (two_ of whose officers were shot for killing surrendered Boers) are now called the Pietersburg Light Horse, retaining only one officer of the original command.