A HORRIBLE MASSACRE.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 113, 8 December 1905, Page 4

A HORRIBLE MASSACRE.

Millenary Victims i • ' Teleitrapfa Presi Association O<>. r t. Sydney, Dec. 6. Particulars of of a massacre of missionaries at Lieohau show it to have been a terribly atrocious affair. Those butchered were Rev. and Mrs j Peale, Mrs Machle, Miss Chestnut and a child Amie Machle, while Dr Mnchle, bead of the mission, aud Dr Eleanor Patterson escaped. When the party escaped from the mis iou hou-e they took refuge in a temole of a cave. A crowd followed and burt in tbedoor. Dr Macble escaped by stretching himself flat out in the water, and Miss Patterson escaped by hiding in a wall. j The women op'ured were stripped naked and exposed to a vast crowd. Little Amie Macble was the first to meet deatbr after she had been dragged with Miss Chestnut from I the cave to the river bank naked. They were compelled to stand in front of villainous native?, and then were flung uninjured into the river. j Miss Chestnut being able to swim struck out to a small sandbank, whilst Amie clung to some shrubs in the river. For some teu minutes tbey were left alone by the crowd, who were engaged in looking at Miss Macble, who had meantime been discovered Ultimately a heartless savage waded out into the river and drove a three ponged instrument through Amie Machle's skull, whilst others ran a similar weapon through Miss Chestnut's body. Streaming with blood, the bodies were dragged ashore, shockingly mutilated, and were then beaten and stabbed and slashed into such a state as to defy recognition. Then they were hurkd into the river again. When Mrs Machle was dragged to the bank, her clothes were torn from her and she was exposed naked to the ridicule of the jeering crowd. She i expostulated with them, telliog them of the folly of their deeds, when one man rushed at her with stones and knocked her skull in. Almost simultaneously a spear ran through her body and in a moment all who could strike the quivering flesh were beating it with clubs and slashing it to pieces. Then the corpse were thrown into the stream. An interval of naif an bour elapsed before the crowd found anyone else. Then they discovered the Rev. and Mrs Peale. Dragging the unhappy couple out of their biding place tbey stripped them of their clothes, and stood them upon a platform in full view of the crowd. They were kept there about half an hour, and during that time tbey were forced to submit to the most scandalous conduct. At last one bloodthirsty wretch crept up behind Rev. Peale and felled him to the ground with a heavy stone, the poor man falling at the feet of his wife. The mob compelled her to look on while they speared the body through and mutilated it with clubs and bamboos until it wan a shapeless mass. Mrs Peale did not have to suffer long in agony. A crack from a club relieved her of her senses, and, falling to the ground, the body was treated like all the rest.