MUTINY AND MURDER.
Arrested Men at Suva. (By Pacific Cable.) SUVA, March 31. The Muriana. which arrived to-day, brought from Tarawa (in the Gilbert Islands) the men Mortimer and Jackson, who are alleged to have murdered the captain and mate of the schooner Neuvre Tigre (afterwards called the White Rose), on the high seas. They will be tried in Suva. [Tlie Neuvre Tigre, from Valparaiso, was on the higa seas when the cook, Mortimer, plotted with at least one other for the capture of the schooner. The captain ; and the mate were murdered, and Mortimer persuaded the cabin boy Jackson to remain with him on the vessel. EventuI ally the ship ran ashore on a reef in the 'Gilbert Group, where Jackson confessed to the crime and was held in custody by the local magistrate.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 79, 1 April 1908, Page 5
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