ALICE SPRINGS AFFRAY.
CHAIRMAN OF INQUIRYCRITICISES LAX POLICE REPORTS. ' WITNESS BEARS A TERRIBLE SOAR. During -the moss-examination of Constable Murray, the Chairman of the Board who is inquiring into the killing of 31 blacks in Central Australia strongly criticised the caaualneas with which police reports treated the taking blacks’ lives. Murray’s superior at Alice Spring's., Sergeant Nobles, was .submitted to a raking cross-examination by the Chairman. He admitted that he had not verified Murray’s report. He said he had no record of the names of the blacks killed, as ho did not think it was necessary. The Board then examined William Morton, Avho bore a scar extending from the top of his head to the neck. He gave evidence of how ho nearly lost his life when the natives attacked him.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 January 1929, Page 6
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131ALICE SPRINGS AFFRAY. Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 January 1929, Page 6
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