A TERRIBLE REVENGE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXX, Issue 292, 10 December 1896, Page 4

A TERRIBLE REVENGE.

A_ story has reaohed London from Amerioa whicb, for the sake of humanity, it may be hoped is untrne, and which, at any rate, at present., lacks confirmation. It is only referred to because it is alleged that the two miscreants concerned, Hiram Good and Sandy Young, have gone to Australia to avoid the consequences of the cruelty attributed to them. These men, tr ppers.by trade, had a grudge againßt the Mill Greek tribe of Indians because they -believed they had murdered Good's wife. . . They followed them to be revenged, and tracked the tribe— 2o2. mea and women— » August last, into a natural basin surrounded by walls of rock, and only entered by the bed of a narrow stream. Blocking op this entrance with rooks, and waiting until the Indians were disabled by a drunken debauch, Good and Young shot at the wretched oreatnres until all were killed, exoept a child of six, whiph they took with them to San Franoisco.. This feat quite eolipses tbe revengeiul exploits attributed by Fenimore Oooper and other Amerioan novelists to the early baokwoodsmen.