THE EXECUTED OFFICERS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11244, 9 April 1902, Page 7

THE EXECUTED OFFICERS.

THE MURDERED MISSIONARY.

HIS WIFE'S STORY.

United Press Association—Jßy Electric Telegriphr—Copyright. (Received April Bth, 9.48 a.m.) LONDON, April 7. The widow of the Rev. C. Heese, the German missionary said to have been murdered by the Australian officers, 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, some coloured men were left to bury their bodies. After the discovery of these murders MrHeese went to the camp of the Carbineers to chow his passport. In pursuance of a previous promise that what had occurred would never be known, the officers of the Carbineers allowed him to proceed, but they compelled him to attach a white flag to his waggon. Heese met Venroyen (?Van Buren), who reported that there 'were no marauders about. Lieutenant Murray (? Morant) or Handcock, with a patrol, followed the missionary. The lieutenant ordered his followers to disperse into the bush. He himself galloped ahead and passed Silas. (This name is interpreted as being that of Heese's black boy). After j Heese was murdered the lieutenant returned to the camp. The?, guilt of the lieutenant could not .be proved , , as there were no eyewitnesses of the murder.