Murder of Two Explorers.
MISSING MEMBERS OF THE CALVERT EXPEDITION.
(Per Press Association.)
Adelaide, March 9.
A telegram has been received from the leader of the relief party which is searching for Wells and Jones, the missing members of the Calvert Exploring Expedition, announcing the discovery of the skeletons of two white men who had been murdered by the natives, but they were too much decomposed to clearly identify, and it is bolieved, from information gathered from the captured natives who took part in the murder that they are the missing men. The indications were that they were speared to death after desperate resistance.
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Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8605, 9 March 1897, Page 2
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