FIJI MURDER.
FIVE COOLIES SENTENCED TO DEATH. (by tblegeath—PEESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) Suva, September 28. Five of tho coolies who murdered Ben Hall, overseer, at the Esivo plantation, Lautoka. have been sentenced to death. Hall, a single man, thirty yearß of ago, was in his house, when an Indian informed him that he was wanted at the stables. Hall was proceeding to the stables,'when he was seized and thrown down and deliberately chopped to pieces. 1 The body had over sixty outs, the skull was splintered, and the head almost severed from the body. .The police .arrested sixteen Indians, some of whom were reported to have confessed to the crime. The tragedy caused groat excitement among the white population, and there was talk of lynch law..A full account was published in The Dominion of September 7.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 314, 29 September 1908, Page 7
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135FIJI MURDER. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 314, 29 September 1908, Page 7
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