"NOT GUILTY!"
Two Aborigines Acquitted of
Murder.
TRAGEDY AT PALM ISLAND
BRISBANE, August 14.
Peter Pry or and Thomas Hoffman, charged .with murdering Robert Curry, superintendent of the aborigine station on Palm Island on February 3, were acquitted to-day. The Crown entered a nolle prosequi. V Mr. Justice Douglas said the community on Palm Island had every right to protect itself when a man such as Curry threatened the lives of the residents.
SUICIDE PACT.
Father, Mother and Daughter
Found Hanging.
SENSATIONAL GERMAN CASE.
... BEGUN, August 14. &n extraordinary case of apparent suicide bv ; three of one family SaTSscovered in Eothschild Park, at Koenigstein, near Dresden, Saxony.. - ; A visitor to the park saw three,figures hanging from the brandies of a-' tree. The victims were Gustav. Koch, an estate agent from Hamburg, : his wife Olga, and their daughter Slag-p 0 ' found in .the - xnarfe ! pockets and rings, on the womens finesrs. Consequently it is considered , that it could not have been a case of murder. ~.._'._,; —
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 192, 15 August 1930, Page 7
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