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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 23, 25 March 1892, Page 29

Father Ohrwaldtr, who recently escaped from Omdurman, is said, a Paris correspondent states, to have written to M. Oliver Paia'a widow, now s milliner at Palermo, to desctibe to her the death of her late hasb and. He was captured by the Mahdi, to whom he was charged with a secret mission, but who thought him a spy, and treated him aa a prisoner. On his way under guard to Khartoum be caught a fever, but was not allowed to halt. He was hoisted en a camel, but being too ill to keep on its back, fell with his forehead to the earth. In order to escape further trouble with him the escort buried him alive.