AUSTRALIAN BLACKS
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received March 31, 11 a.m.) PERTH, March 31. Investigations are being continued into the disappearance of natives in the North West. Detective'Flanagan is inquiring into allegations that nine aborigines were chained together and driven for miles through the Kimb.erleys by white men on horse back, and chained to trees at night. Also the total disappearance of a> number of blacks, and the story that they had been killed and burnt. All were notorious cattle stealers. The natives, it is alleged, were captured by white men, when they were released from gaol. Albert Smith, station-manager, was acquitted at Derby on charges that he chained natives together, and took them into the bush, after which they wer6 not seen again.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 March 1930, Page 6
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