GAOL MYSTERY.
FOURTEEN NATIVES ESCAPE. BEEN HELD ON AIURDER CHARGE BY CABLE—PR V.SS ASSOCIATION—-COPYRIGHT. AIELBOURNE, June 28. Alvstery surrounds a series of sensational happenings at Rabaul in connection with the trial of sixteen natives on charges of murdering two white W prospectors in the Nankanai district. w The natives were arrested and last . week the Federal Government received a report that 14 of the natives had escaped from the gaol, one was dead and one was sick. Inquiries for fuller details have so far met with no response, and the department is mystified. The gaol at Rabaul is commanded by a. white officer in.charge of native police.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 June 1927, Page 6
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107GAOL MYSTERY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 June 1927, Page 6
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