A MISSIONARY MARTYR.
MURDER OF THE REV. WM, J. HUMPHREYS. HIS HEAD IMPALED ON A STAKE. f United Press Association.] LONDON, April 21. Sierra Leone (West Africa) reports that the head of the Rev.- William John Humphrey, M.A., haß been lound impaled on a stake. Ho had evidently been murderod. Mr Humphrey was tor some time curate of St. Peter's, Tunbridge Wells, England. Volunteering for missionary service he was appointed principal of the FouraßayCollego, Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 1890.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXII, Issue 88, 22 April 1898, Page 2
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79A MISSIONARY MARTYR. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXII, Issue 88, 22 April 1898, Page 2
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