SPEARED BY BLACKS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 July 1926, Page 7

SPEARED BY BLACKS.

BUSH STATION MURDER. Further details of the murder of Frederick William Hay, of Nulla Nulla Station, .north of Wyndliaim, where lie was fatally speared hy natives, have been rcc-elyed by Mr. H. C. F. Overheu., of Perth, fromi hie .sou, who. is overseer on the .station (Sydney Morning Herald). He said that alter Mr. Hay was missed Ibliaek trackers found Mr. Hiay’.s horse, tlhe saddle of /which was covered with blood stains. They went back over the horse’s tracks nearly .all day, and found a man’s decomposed body about sundown. It appeared a.s if Mr. Hay had surprised a mio’.b of blacks with a fre.shly-.kiiled cow, and chased some of them.. Either one or two dropped in the. grass ami speared him in the back a.s lie went by, or they turned on him. One sipear glanced along hi.s nibs, and ciub* four or five arteries. After Mr Hay fell from bis horse the blacks carried him to the shade of a tree, where lie was found cleacl, and tor/- off his clothes, but put back the boots. Mr. Hay Iliad fired one shot from an old revolver, which was almost useless. iMr. Olverheu, said that hi.s aboriginal boy knew the tracks of tlhe blacks near the scene »of the murder, and gave him their names. All belonged to. a treacherous mob, which rarely .dame near the station. The. tracks of two were also identified as those of blades who had hilled a half-carte and Chinese at Dryisdale River Mission, and one of them was reported .to have murdered Biass and Smith, who were walking to Dry.sda/lei Mission, in 1920. One aboriginal hia.s since been arrested on a charge of the murder of Hay.