DEATH SENTENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1933, Page 6

DEATH SENTENCE

MURDER OF WHITE MAN BY

ABORIGINE

SHOT FROM BEHIND

BRISBANE, April 15.

iStockman Jimmy an aborigine, was

sentenced t-o -death in the. Supreme Court at Darwin for the murder of a white man, William Tetlow, dingo poisoner, -at Daly River on November 4. A recommendation to mercy had been made, by the jury.

Constable Pryor described the finding ofthe body and the arrest of Stockman Jimmy. Tetlow, lie said, had been -living with Alice, of the Poonganoonga tribe. Jimmy told him that lie. and Tetlow went out shootin<>- • . © geese, artel'that when ho was sure that Alice could not see him from the camp, he shot Tetlow from . behind,. He left- the body in a billaboug where there were’ -plenty of alligators, so that the police would net be able to find it.

Alice, who sP°ke'good-English-,- gave evidence that sh e . had been living with Tetlow .for eleven months near the j .Daly River, Jimmy came t G the ie.amp and wie'nt out with Tetlow shooting geese. When she heaird th e s hot she ran out and saw the white man falling. Jimmy said to her, “My bin lose ’em brain. What ’em shoot you, too/’ Slit replied, “Come on, shoot me.” She got Tetlow some tea, and Tie. told hisr to go to the police ,a ud tell them what had happened. S'h e asked him, “You leave ’em me now?” and! he nodded •' his head and died. She was crying. -because Tetlow had been good to her. Jimmy was with Jack > Johnson, another aborigine, a I milkwood tree. Alice said the tribe was afraid of what Jimmy had done ( and kept her i in camp for some days. One night-, j she sneaked/ a way, crossed the river in. a canoe, .and told everything t n the police.