SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT SEA.
Captain Storey, of the steamer Fastnet, owned by Messrs. Farrer and Groves, of Leadenhall - street, London, reported- on arrival at Newport (Mom.) particulars of a murder and suicide which occurred whilst on the voyage home from Singapore. A Malay seaman, named Francis Joseph, went mad, and, arming himself with a razor, got into the engineers' berths. Ho cut the throat of Robert Foster, of Sunderland, second engineer, so severely that ho died the same night. He then attached Lawrence, of Chepstow, the first engineer, but lie fortunately was lying awake, and, although bleeding, sprang out of his berth, and endeavoured to grapple with the maniac. The Malay eluded him, ran up the ladder, and vaulting over the bulwarks, was drowned. The captain, who was reading in the saloon, heard the commotion and saw the men coming towards him. The second engineer was buried at sea, but the steamer's course was altered, and at Ponang medical aid was obtained for the first engineer, who recovered.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8288, 21 June 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)
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