A SAVAGE REVENGE

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2572, 3 May 1930, Page 5

A SAVAGE REVENGE

PALM ISLAND MURDER DOCTOR ON TRIAL COMMITTED ON THE CHARGE lly Telegraph-Press Assn-Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received May 3, 10 a.m.) ■ Townsville, May 3. Dr. Charles Ibfttison was committed for trial on a, charge, of procuring Peter Prior, a halfcaste, to murder Robert Curry, foreman at the, Palm Island sawmill, Ralph .Matthews in his evidence said he hoard Pattison say to some boys: “Wliat- is 'being done, to [>re_ vent Curry’s return?” r l'ho natives replied that they were posting themselves along the bench and they had orders to shoot Curry. Pattison said : “Shoot him in . the guts, where he shot me.”