KILLED BY BLACKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 71, 21 September 1937, Page 10

KILLED BY BLACKS

LONE ENGLISHMAN

END OF A YEAR'S SEARCH

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, September 17. Saddle packs, a dingo trap, and a man's skeleton were the clues discovered by a police party to a tragedy of the wild interior of Western Australia.

Edward Joseph Wilkins, a young Englishman, had been missing for a year. A young pastoralist, he had set out from his station on a dingo-trap-ping expedition. A search party set out on his trail, but was forced back by lack of food and water. Detective-Sergeant Larson left Wilruna on July 1 with another party, and a few days ago returned, after covering 800 miles of arid sandhill country, with few water holes. Two aborigines they brought back have been charged with the murder of Wilkins.

Getting information on the track from drovers, Larson made a forced march and came upon a family of blacks, about 250 miles north of Wilruna. A woman took him to Wilkins's last camp, and pointed out two men who, she said, were the murderers. I Nearby were saddle packs, a dog trap, | and Wilkins's skeleton. Larson was j told that, while Wilkins was away I getting his horse, the blacks took his rifle from the camp. On 'returning, Wilkins was speared twice. He ran to his camp for his rifle, but was pursued and killed with tomahawks.