ASSAULT ON ABO.
I Constable Thrashes Alleged Murderers. JURY ACQUIT BLACKS. (Received 11 a.m.) DARWIN", this day. An extraordinary brutal assault on handcuffed aboriginal prisoners by a constable was revealed in Court. Tommy Moyle, an aboriginal, charged with the murder of a native woman, revealed that the constable, upon getting the three handcuffed prisoners to the police station, gave them a thrashing with a waddy'and then questioned them about the tragedy. The Crown Prosecutor immediately withdrew the case for the Crown and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty without leaving the box.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 103, 3 May 1929, Page 7
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