SHOOTING OF WOUNDED.
STEYVd ESCAPE. Ecaeirod July IO.Jo p.m. London, July IS. Mr Bennett Burleigh states that the killing of wounded at Vlakfontein is not well authenticated. The outrage was the work of one or two Boers. The Standard's Pretoria correspondent saya that Mr Steyn was asleep when Reitz was surprised. Ho escaped in his nightshirt,and jumped on ahorse. Riflemen fired at him, and missed. Lieutenant French, cf the New Zealand Bushmen, has sailed for England.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11901, 19 July 1901, Page 3
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