NOT GUILTY.
ABORIGINES ACQUITTED ON MURDER CHARGE.
POLICE PURSUIT COST SEVENTEEN NATIVE LIVES. .
United Press Assn, by Eli Tel. Uopyriffhl (Australian Press Assn.) , DARWIN, Nov. 9. . In the murder 'trial both aborigines were acquitted and discharged. Gonstable.Murray, in evidence, said that .while in pursuit of the natives at least 17 aborigines, including two lubras, were killed: The natives threw boomerangs, which were effective., at ,150 the police. The constarble added that the reason why the police did not shoot to wound rather than kill was because they had no means of succouring those Wounded. They were hundreds of miles from civilisation. Two aborigines were charged with the murder of Frederick Brooks, in Central Australia. Brooks was ambushed by ;a , party of natives who clubbed him to death and buried the body in a rabbit burrow- The police; pursued the natives for CO njiles into the bush.... The natives showed fight, and eight were, shot dead. Two survivors were sent for trial.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10740, 10 November 1928, Page 2
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