KILLED AND EATEN.
NEW GUINEA CANNIBALS.
[FROM OCR, OWN COREE9POXTOENT.] Sybxet, October 30. During the last 12 months three white men: have been killed and eaten in German New Guinea. Tho latest to. suffer that fate is a bird collector named Petersen. News of the murder was brought to Sydney yesterday by the German mail steamer Prinz Waldemar. Particulars supplied chow that Petersen had spent some litilo time in New Guinea in search of rare bird specimens. He left t),» wast for the bush some weeks ago, with some native attendants, but never returned. His non-appearance aroused suspicion, ' and native police were sent in search. ' Word came back to the coast several days later that the bird-hunter had penetrated some ,25 miles into tho bush, and was caught by savages. From .the stories received, it eeemed that he was taken while asleep. He was bound hand and foot, then, carried beyond the call of the white population, killed and eaten. An officer of the uteamcr stated that just before the vessel left for Sydney hews of. another murder bad been received, but, no particulars were to hand. The Government authorities had taken stepa to secura the murderers, and parties- were^de^^^d^thbt^delay^
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15141, 4 November 1912, Page 8
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