New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
BOER BRUTALITY.
WRECKED HOMES AND DESTROYED STOCK IN
UPPER NATAL.
From The London Telegraph.

NATAL
From The London Telegraph.
Our special correspondent at Petermaritzburg
forwards the following extract from The Times of
NataP' of October q, as exhibiting the quality of
of General Jouberts ideas of humane and civilized
distressing accounts are reaching us from day
to day of wrecked homesteads and destruction Of
ton devitry on the part of the Beers We had been
led to hope. the commandos Natal soil
are led by men who pretend to some education, and
TO whom some veneer at all events of civilization
has been attrlnuted that these leaders would. for
their own regulations sake. exercise some control
over the well known savage propensities of their
the light Of actual facts AS one exemplary ' i'm m
stance of these: we may here give the case of Mr..
hauser Mr. and Mrs. Brown had recently import
ed costly furniture from England and their home
elegant example of what means and taste
can do in the way of identifying colonial farm
their children around them their surroundings pre-
sented a scene which might justly be taken to
colonial life. When the Beers commenced to invade
the Beers better than he to send his wife and fam
lily away. as also his valuables and stock. He
and he maintained against all the representations
OF his friends that being a peaceful farmer. he
when the Beers were already close at hand and
tales OF their conduct had reached Mrs Brown, her
hurriedly leave with her children for down country
There was no time then to pack up their valuables
9the had dhng Is quantity Of valuable family
moving stock from one paddock to another, and
had suddenly disappeared. Before leaving. Mrs
Brown locked up the house and gave the KEYS to
an old kaffir servant, telling him that Mr. Brown
would return. and that he was on no account 70
give up the keys to anybody else
Presently the Beers arrived uDon the scene and
demanded the keys from the old Kaffir when they
found the house locked up He had thrown the
Keys away on their approach. and protested that
he had not got them They thereupor sjamboked
the faithful old fellow cutting open with their
s1amboks in horrible manner, but they could
not mako him betray his trust Eventually thew
found the keys and entered. The plucky old Ka11r
entered. too to what they did They tore down
even the overmantels and pictures nd smashed
them and all the mirrors and furniture treadine
down everything under foot. They pocketed the
silver and anything portable of any value and told
me old kafr1r 10 and tell his master what thew
had, had done The old Kaffir. with his body all
iacerated by the sjamboks of these savages has
i furned u2 in Maritzburg and told his story One
letter has been received by Mrs Brown from her
husband stating that he is alive but 'in living
grave and for obvious reasons we cannot divuIge
where he Is Meantime her anxiety may be i'm
agheo That letter further stated that II was lse-
Tess trying TO reach him with a letter Having
given this as merely a single instance OF what IS
going on upon Natal soil to-day and of the ar
counts which reach daily, is Il not time thot
an eiIort We're made to educate people at home G
10 What Natal Is suffering. and as to the treatment
t33rl.sh women and children have met with during
Ilelr night from johannesburg at the hands Of
boer savages? The British public is too apt to
OVERLOOK these matters when the time for settle
ment OF differences cornes 'N 49, - SNN>'S-