NATIVES ON TRIAL.
CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN MURDER. (tfKTTED PRESS ASSOCIiTIOir—BJ BUECTBIO TELEGRAPH—COPYBIQHT.) PORT DARWIN, November 8. An aboriginal youth, giving evidence at the trial of two aboriginals charged with the murder of Frederick Brooks in Central Australia, said, that lubra (a native female) was used as a decoy to Brooks* who Was ambushed by a S&rty of natives. who clubbed him to eatn and then buried his body in a rabbit burrow. Police pursued, the natives for w miles into the bush. The natives showed fight and eight were shot dead. The two survivors are now undergoing trial. rfess Association.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19463, 9 November 1928, Page 11
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