A NEGRO MURDERED.
QUARRBL ON U.S. BATTLESHIP.
AUCKLAND, August 16.
It has transpired that a murder was committed aboard one of the American battleships during the stay m Auckland.
Two negro firemen quarrelled, and ono slashed the other across the stomach with a razor so severely that death ensued.
It was rumoured that the murderer was to be hanged \?\\en the vessels had gofc outside the three-mile limit, but it is believed now, as the Tesult of inquiry, thafc he will be taken back to America in irons and tried there.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 23
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