Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1889 — DEVOURED AN ENGLISHMAN. [ARTICLE]

DEVOURED AN ENGLISHMAN.

.A number of natives of the Solomon Islands decoyed an Englishmah named Nelson and three native boys to one of their villages and then murdered them. The bodies of the victims were devoured by their murderers. Upon learning of the massacre, the captain of the British cruiser Royalist proceeded to the scene. He shelled the villages along the coast where the murders were committed. The natives deser'ed the villages and fled to the bills, where they are safe from pursuit. Other cases of cannibalism on the islands are reported.