MURDER AND WRECKING
CABIN BOY'f) STORY.
A TRAGEDY A LA STEVENSON,
BY XELEGnip—PRESS-ASBbCIATKN—COPTIIianT. . Sydney, March 10.
;With regard to the alleged tragedy in connection.''with the schooler ,;Neuyre,,T ; ijgre ) V,the cabin boy, Jackson,: told: Ha^es;that »ati tho timo when, the cook'(Mortimer) attacked the captain and the mate with a polling them to jump overboaTd, the schooner was fourteen miles off liJiVd. v\V3i-6riJthe Captain jumped overboard^Jackson" throw him' a plank, but believed he failed to Gecuro it, and both' ho and the mato £. When left, Mortimer -. and 'Jatlison' were under arrest at' Tarawa*. ■ , .
. Tho authoritiesare" •'&mmunifcatihg' Jwiththo Italian .Consul at a view to identifying tho stolen vessel.,
Mortimer is reticent, and rof used to', say anything when shown Jackson's "confession.
Tho schooner,, which was run ashore-at Apamama (Gilbert Group), has been-.placed-under' the chargo -of a nativo . MagistrateSho is in an to. break up. > 3 H'VW^'^;
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 143, 11 March 1908, Page 7
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143MURDER AND WRECKING Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 143, 11 March 1908, Page 7
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