[?]. C. Corrie's Memory

[?] Fate [?] Captain Keller

)TTO Keller was killed in January or February, 1913, in the Solomons, on the coast of ilaita, between Foando and larrie,” Mr. H. C. Corrie (formerly the Solomons and now residing Sydney) told the PIM. Captain ug, writing from Germany, has m inquiring about the fate of ptain Keller.

Keller went there on a ship called i Sumali,” said Mr. Corrie. “He s the only one killed on that lasion, and I don’t know why. The tives similarly killed Jack Lay :k, a brother of Dick Haycock, en he went in there on my ship a recruiting trip, a few years er.

When I went in there, I found F. M. mpbell there, with his police, and helped Campbell. Campbell s determined to get the murderer, i he took one of the chiefs and d him as hostage, until he got ■ guilty man. Then the murderer s taken to Tulagi, where he was 3d, found guilty and hanged.

Captain Keller had Henry Kuper i Jacobsen working for him when was killed. Jacobsen then claimed it he had an interest in Keller’s airs; Kuper said he had none, lobsen paid something and took :r Keller’s interest. Later, he re ?d; and he was living on Dangar md, in the Hawkesbury River, ’th of Sydney, for a time. He used go regularly into Burns Philp’s, Sydney. He went in there, one

month, and left to go home— and was never seen again. He may have been drowned in the Hawkesbury.”

Mr. Corrie retains his interest in Guadalcanal. The only BSI old hand who now out-dates him is Mr Carl Younger. Mr. R. C. Symes" another pre-war resident of BSI is reported to have sold out his in terests there.