EXPLORER'S TERRIBLE DEATH.
SINGLE-HANDED: FIGHT'-WITH HOSTILE PAP t UA^3. (Bi Euonic TmoBsPR-Cbnuou.) (Pn Press Association.) Received September 2, 9.50 a.m. BRISBANE, Sent. 2. Details of the murder of the man Warner in Papua are now to hand. He was a German of "American descent and was a prominent mineralogist. He left Sydney in July, accompanied by a young man named Windsor, the pair intending to prospect for radium in the interior of Papua. After spending a week with a missionary at Menapi they departed, accompanied by three native carriers.
At the end of a couple of days Windsor took ill. and with one carrier returned to the Mission station.
Warner pushed forward into unexplored country, where the natives were hostile. He was attacked, and defended himself till his revolver jambed. Tho natives, using slings, broke his arms, then killed him with spears and cut otT his arms as trophies. They then burned the body and danced round tho r fire. The two carriers escaped. A missionary visited the scene and found tho charred remains.
A punitive expedition hae been de ■patched.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9586, 2 September 1913, Page 5
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181EXPLORER'S TERRIBLE DEATH. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9586, 2 September 1913, Page 5
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