MYSTERY SOLVED

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 12, 15 January 1934, Page 7

MYSTERY SOLVED

PROSPECTORS' FATE

SPEARED TO DEATH.

Mutilated Bodies Thrown to j Crocodiles. ABORIGINES ARRESTED. United P.A.-Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 12.30 p.m.) DARWIN, this day. With eight prisoners and live witnesses, Constable Langdon • has returned to Darwin, having solved the mystery of the disappearance of two prospectors, Adolf Ivoch and Stephen Arinski. The men were murdered by Fitzmaurice liivci blacks on November 10.

During his subsequent long search for the murderers, Constable Langdon covered 1000 miles on horseback and foot.

Koch and Arinski were speared to death by a tribe of 20 and were horribly mutilated and thrown to the crocodiles. One of the arrested blacks is a "tiger," and the brother of Ncmaluk, who is accused of murdering Japanese fishermen.

On one occasion Constable Langdon surprised four suspects at dawn, and learned that Ncmaluk had been with them only the previous day. Another time, he had two entire tribes in handcuffs. On arrival at Darwin the prisoners were charged with murder.

Nemaluk, an aboriginal stalwart more than Oft in height, has been pursued in the vicinity of Darwin by police constables for some months past. He is wanted for the alleged murder of a Japanese, and for being concerned in the murder of three other Japanese in 1930. After ins escape from Fanny Bay Gaol on September 23 he had a homeric encounter with police on top of a cliff on October 17, the light ending ill Nemaluk being thrown over the cliff. He was seen again later.