TRAPPER KILLED
Had Time to Leave Poison For Murderers ABORIGINES DIE SYDNEY, June 8. The “Sun's” Darwin correspondent reports the discovery of six bodies, five of whom are aborigines and the othei a dingo-trapper, believed to be named Anderson, in the lonely Fitzmaiirice country, Northern Territory. Mounted Constable Fitzer, who patrols the area, noticed that the aborigines’ bodies were distorted and twisted. Apparently they died of poisoning. Anderson had been speared when close to his camp, but before he died lie apparently poisoned his flour and the other food in his camp with strychnine in revenge, realising that the natives, as is customary, would hold a fea.-.l aftci his death. A quantity of powder resembling strychnine was spilled near the camp and bloodstained spears also were discovered.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 149, 9 June 1936, Page 3
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