The Escaped Convicts.
(Per Press Amociati'An.)
Wellington, This day
It is said that the reason why the crew of the Rippingham Grange are showing so much sympathy with the convicts hidden on board is the way in which those captured at Tcho were treated. According to an account given, the men were knocked about in a most shameful way: being beaten, kicked, and stamped on, and one nearly killed. So incensed were the crew on seeing this, that the officers had to order them away to prevent them falling on tbe French policemen. All three men are ordinary criminals of a low type, and not political offenders. The steamer stops next at River Plate. While here, Charles Graves, second officer, was notified that he had been awarded the Humane Society's bronze medal for saving the life of a drunken stevedore at Buenos Ayres on Nov. 20th. The man jumped overboard, and savagely attacked Graves when he went to his rescue.
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Hastings Standard, Volume III, Issue 867, 10 March 1899, Page 3
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