AN ISLAND TRAGEDY.
A NATIVE'S REVENGE. ALLEGED HUMAN SACRIFICE. (United Press Association). SYDNEY, October 2. The manager of a plantation in the Solomon Islands, Mr Lynch, who has arrived in Sydney, reports that a native, in revenge for a beating he had received, attacked Mr J. L. Cameron, a planter's assistant, and after rendering him unconscious' with a stone, despatched him with a tomahawk. Later the murderer's • remains were found hanging by a rope from a small boat in a creek. The lower portion of the body bad been devoured by crocodiles.
Mr Lynch also said some Chinese had been murdered as a sacrifice by a tribe of natives. The murderers were later captured, and one of them had already been hanged.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17221, 3 October 1927, Page 7
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122AN ISLAND TRAGEDY. Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17221, 3 October 1927, Page 7
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