DESPERATE AFFRAY.
PRISONERS ATTACK CONSTABLE. GRIM FIGHT FOR LIFE. 8Y CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION —COPYBIGHT, PERTH, Nov. 7. The commissioner of police has received word of a lsonscvtional between a constable aided by a native tracker and six native prisoners in the north-west district. . , , ~ The prisoners suddenly attacked, tne constable and the tracker. A shot failed to frighten them. The revolver then jammed and the constable anu tracker were in serious' danger. A. severe hand-to-hand fight followed. When the revolver was found to work again the constable -shot one native dead, thus ending the affray The constable and the tracker were both seriously injured.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 November 1925, Page 5
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102DESPERATE AFFRAY. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 November 1925, Page 5
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