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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 September 1938Vol. IX, No. 2

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p. 54 · Read in the full issue

Papuan Executed

From Our Own Correspondent.

Pt. Moresby, Aug. 17.

KARO, the Papuan who was sentenced to death for the murder of a native warder. Ume, was executed at 8 o’clock on August 8 at the Badili Gaol.

A large number of natives gathered on the outskirts of the gaol, and there was every indication that they fully realis ed the seriousness of the occasion.

The condemned man, attended by Rev.

Fathers McEncroe and Flynn, walked firmly to the gallows and met his death

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