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About five years ago (I think he said it was in 1844), a murder was committed on the island by the father of one of the present Chilian residents. Pearce was then in Valparaiso, and had a statement of the circumstances from some of the parties concerned in it.
TRAGIC FATE OF THE SCOTCHMAN.
A Scotch sailor, it appeared, deserted from a vessel