ALLEGED MURDER.
Fate ■of Australian Aborigines. BONES IN THE FIRE.. PERTH, May 10. At the sitting of the North-West Commission, which is inquiring into the alleged killing of natives, Dr. McGillivrayr the Government pathologist, who examined the bones which were found in several fires by an inspector of police in the north-west district, said there was nothing by which he could identify them definitely as being human bones. Specimens of alleged human bone produced by a missionary named Gribble did not seem, he said, to be fragments of human skeletons. Startling allegations by missionaries, police, and others; led to the setting up of the No'rth-West Commission. A letter from a police inspector in the district said that he had visited a place where he had found 21 human teeth in the ashes irom two fires, and also the undoubted remains of human bones, which had been burned. The inspector said he had been told that four aboriginal men had been burned in one fire and three "gins' in the other. His investigations had satisfied him that sixteen natives had been burned in three groups. . --
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 109, 11 May 1927, Page 7
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184ALLEGED MURDER. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 109, 11 May 1927, Page 7
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