MUTINY AND MURDER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10046, 5 February 1896, Page 5

MUTINY AND MURDER.

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT SEA. THE CAPTAIN AND MATE KILLED. THE VESSEL SEIZED BY A SPANISH CRUISER. Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Sydney, February 4. Particulars have been received of a terrible tragody in the Eastern Seas. The schooner Maria 11. lefb Singapore for the Caroline Islands, the crew consisting of Captain Brown, who had his wife and little son with him; a German mate, named Hohlmann; and a number of Chinese and Pelew Island seamen, and a nogro passenger. The crew, under the leadership of the boatswain, mutined. The boatswain stole into the captain's cabin while he was asleep, and severed his head from his shoulders with an axe. The wife called for assistance, and Hohlmann, who came to the rescue, was cub down. The negro was also attacked and wounded, and in a fronzy of fear jumped into the water, where ho was shot. The bodies of the captain and mate were tied to an anchor and thrown overboard. The captain's wife and son were kopb prisoners in the cabin. Tho mutineers sailed tho schooner to the Island of Anne, intending to sell the cargo and burn the vessol, bub the native king, suspecting something was wrong, refused to allow them to land. They then began to quarrel among themselves, and three of the Polew Islanders were killed. The remainder shaped their course for the Pelews, where a Spanish cruiser seized the schooner and sent the murderers to Manila for trial,