MURDERED PRIEST
NEW GUINEA CRIME NATIVES USE ARROWS SYDNEY, Jan. 10 Messages from Madang, New Guinea, confirm the report which was received a few days ago of the murder of the Rev. Father Alexis Mossheiser, aged 29, on December 19, about 30 miles from the new mission station at Mount Hagen. Father Mossheiser was leaving the village of Wokama with Father van Baar when the former, who was a little distance behind, was attacked by natives and killed with arrows.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22005, 11 January 1935, Page 9
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