MURDER OF JAPANESE
Northern Australia Case NATIVES SENT TO GAOL Unusual Conunent by Judge (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 2, 10.35 a.m.) DARWIN, Aug. 2. •Judge Weils, in sentencing three native* to 20 years’ imprisonment for tile murder of uno of live Japanese killed nt Caledon Bay in 1932, said he was convinced that the story that the Japanese seized lubrus was a fabrication. Judge Wells made some comment about the need for protecting “members of a friendly nation.” He said that if members of a friendly nation came to the Australian coasts on lawful business and were killed and no punishment meted out the friendly nation could reasonably take matters into its own hands and deal with the natives itself. Butcher, an aboriginal, who killed a white man, Jennings, and tw® lubras, was sentenced to death.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 196, 2 August 1934, Page 7
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