AN ISLAND TRAGEDY
MISSIONARY SPEARED NATIVES THREATEN TO KILL HIS WIFE. STATION LEFT UNTOUCHED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received February 22, 1.3 a.in.) THURSDAY ISLAND, February 21. The Rev. Peter Dec, a Samoan missionary, wa.s murdered by natives at tile Presbyterian mission station at Arukum. Mr Bee was relieving the resident missionary, who was away on furlough.
After spearing Mr Bee, the natives threatened to kill his wife, but eventually went away, leaving the mission property undamaged.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6450, 22 February 1908, Page 10
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76AN ISLAND TRAGEDY New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6450, 22 February 1908, Page 10
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