THE PITCAIRN ISLAND MURDERER.
«j. [BY TELEGBAPH — PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, 24th September. The name of the man condemned for the wilful murder of a woman and her child on Pitcairn Island is Christian. [This does not convey much information, as a considerable number of the Pitcairn Islanders bear that name, being descendants of the Lieutenant Christian who led the mutiny of H.M.S. Bounty in 1790. Nine of the mutineers, with several Tahitian men and women, subsequently took possession of Pitcairn Island. At the end of ten years, mainly through internal dissension, only one Englishman, Alexander Smith, who afterwards assumed the name of John Adams, remained alive, with eight or nine women and several children, and from them the present inhabitants, who constitute quite a colony, have descended.]
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Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1898, Page 5
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127THE PITCAIRN ISLAND MURDERER. Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1898, Page 5
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