"YOU SPEARUM ME."

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 206, 31 August 1926, Page 7

"YOU SPEARUM ME."

HOW SAMBO DIED. AN ABORIGINE'S MURDER. PERTH, August 24. "I never look. I never think anything wrong. We all friends. I hearem Jack sing out, 'Oh, what's matter? You spearem mc? , I look back and ccc he liavem spear through him. I run down and pullem out spear, and chuck it away." That was how an aborigine named Tommy described to the coroner at Hall's Creek what he knew of the murder of a native named Jack, whose dead body was found recently near Margaret River. The evidence was that Tommy, Jack and a native named Sambo went looking for yams. All three sat down, and Tommy says that Sambo suddenly speared Jack, the spear entering his body under the shoulder, at the back, and protruding through his chest. Tommy added.: "He ha vein no reason for killing, as all friendly, and Jack and Sambo just before sing, play and have bifr feed, and make corroboree." Sambo, who was arrested, did not deny killing his mate, and the coroner committed him for trial for wilful murder. SELF-SUPPORTING. A PLAN FOR MIGRANTS. LONDON, August 23. "I wonder if British workers realise that they could completely solve the unemployment question, and also help to reconstruct trade and guide the development of the Empire," says Sir Arthur Riekard, a well-known Sydney business man and founder of the Millions Club, in an article in the "Daily News." "With the migration of a million workers a year—in which the British Government would assist—industrial towns working on co-operative lines could be founded in the Dominions, with the surrounding farm settlements selling their surplus products through the eo-j>perative societies, and the surplus food through co-operative societies in Britain."