The Tongan Outrage
EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS The Tougan Government schooner Sandfly brings additional details of the reoent events at Tonga. Several of the prisoners made a fall confession of the attempted murder, and of their principal accomplices in the plot. The British and German Consuls were present at the trial. It was stated at the trial that a number of leading Wesleyan natives bad been for mouths past urging runaway criminals to murder the Premier, the Minister of Police, and the Police Magistrate. Tobin, one of the prisoners, wan also in league with others whose object was to murder the King and his family, and place his nephew on the throne. The murder of the Premier was deliberately planned, and many students at the Wesleyan College were in the plot and aiding the murderers. A native Wesleyan minister confessed to knowing of the plot to murder, but was afraid to inform lest he himself should be killed. Six men convicted of the attempted assassination of Mr Baker were shot at Malona Island, on the 12th of February, in the presence of the Crown Prince of Tonga and a number of nativo.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2033, 21 February 1887, Page 2
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190The Tongan Outrage Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2033, 21 February 1887, Page 2
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