PACIFIC PIRACY CASE.
"SENTENCE. ' (nr *ssoi:ivrioN-TCorYiiionT.| ' . ' : ' Suva, April 26. In tho White Roso case,- Mortlomaus was sohtenood to penal servitudefor life. [The story told' by Jackson, cabinboy of tho schooner 'White. Rose, was thatwhen the vessel < left South America she was called tho Nouvto Tigre. About fourteen miles off the coast, thecoot., (tho prisoner, Mortlemans. a Belgian) attacked the mato and the captain with an. axo, and ultimately, having secured a gun, drove thorn. overboard under threat of (shooting. Mor. tlemans madp Jackson do as he ordered, and ' they—there were no others on i board—drifted about the Pacific until tho' schooner _ went ashore at Apaiuainn' Lagoon. According to ' Jackson's evidence, the mate sank as soon ar' he jumped overboard; the'captain was 6ee» trying 1 to swim, ashore.] . '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 492, 27 April 1909, Page 7
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127PACIFIC PIRACY CASE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 492, 27 April 1909, Page 7
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