Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1879-05-03 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

MASSACRE OF JEWS. BY CHRISTIANS, REWARDS FOR BRAVERY. A correspondent of the Nene Znricher Zeitunq , At a meeting of the Royal Humane Society, the writing from Zigdidi, in the government of the Can- following cases of gallantry in saving life from ajus, descries a shocking massacre of Jews which drowning were submitted by Captain Home, the secreoccurred in the village of Satschcheri, in that neigh- tary, to the committee, which conferred the society's .beurhood. At the beginning of April i., appeals thekt awards. The society's medallion was unanimously the body of a child RUS found in a wood, and seven Jowst voted to Lieutenant R. J. C. Creed, let Battalion of the of the place were accused by the Christian village's of 17th Regiment, and testimonials inscribed on vellum having killed and secreted it for their Easter saerfice. to Privates Mooney and Shanahan, of ' the same regiThey were arr-sted and taken before the district ment, for saving Private Bromley, who, when fording judge, but immediately dismissed, as it was testified the Cabot river at Basawal, on the 7th of last Feb., by a medical witness that the child hail died from was swept off his legs by the strength of the natural causes, and that the wounds found on the body current close to the head of a rapid, and, fully acwere the work of wild animals. Rejoiced at the issue coutred as he was, must have been drowned but for the of their trial, the Israelites of the village assembled at prompt bravery displayed by his rescuers, who were tee house of one of their number to celebrate the event also in full marching order. Charles William Scott, by a dinner; but in the midst of their feasting they was also awarded the society's medallion for the fol. were surprised by a party of Christian villagers, who lowing act of gallantry: On the 18th of last February burst into the house axe in hand, killed six of the in- Thomas H. Botham, of the barque Lancastria, which mates on the spot, and grievously wounded many was then lying in Antigua Harbour, was conveying more. The narrator of the incident alleges that the some hogsheads of sugar ma boat from the ship to the • priest of the Greek; Church of Satschchori was the shore, accompanied by Scott,when the former by some instigator of this act of ferocious fanaticism, means got capsized into the water. He was unable to swim, and must inevitably have been drowned had not Scott, who had much difficulty in extricating himself from a dangerous position between the hogsheads and the side of the boat, after receiving severe injuries, gone to his assistance. With the aid of one of the oars he succeeded in obtaining a hold of the drowning man, and then supporting him swain to the shore, where both were picked up much exhausted. The society's medallion was also unanimously voted to Mr. Cheney R. Prouty, collector of Customs, Texas, for saving Mr. A. Townsend, a man named Richards, and a negro boy. This occurrence, which happened last summer, arose from the yacht in which they were sailing suddenly capsizing in a gale of wind, which prevented them being able to reach the shore by swimming. They consequently clung to the yacht, and were carried some miles out to sea. Meantime Mr. Prouty, after great exertion, managed to cut away a spar, and with this he left the wreck, and swam a distance of two miles through water which was known to be infested with' sharks, and ultimately reached the shore. Thence he had to walk several miles before he could obtain assistance, when the crew of a schooner lying at a wharf in Indiapola set sail and went in search of the others, who were rescued eleven hours after the occurrence. The medallion was also voted to James Henry Walker, of the ship Ambriz., for attempting to save George Webb, of the same ship, who was washed overboard an a gale of wind on the Bth of January. Testimonials were awarded to Arthur J. .Austin for saving Alfred Padfield, wha sank while bathing on Southsea Beach; to Edward George Lascelles for saving Christopher Gattenby, who was capsized from a boat in the River Swale on the 13th ult. ; to George Harness for saving Mary Casey, who fell into the water at Albert Quay, Cork, on the Bth ult.; to John Macnamara for saving Joseph Brennan, who fell off the quay into deep water at Kilrush on the 19th ult. ; to J. B. Pearson for saving Alfred G. Strickland, who fell into the water at Portsmouth on the 10th ult. ; to Edward Humby for rescuing Eliza Williams, who attempted suicide in the sea at Southsea on the 14th ult.; and to Private John Wolfe, Ist Royal Lancashire Militia, who on the 20th ult. saved George Ireland, who fell into the river at Lancaster Quay.