CHAINING ABORIGINES
REPORT DENIED. Giving evidence before a Western Australian Royal Commission on the Aborigines, A. G. Clifton, retired warden and Magistrate, ridiculed the criticism of the chaining of aboriginal prisoners. Witness said it was not cruel, and the natives did not suffer in any way. It was the only safe method of securing them in bringing them in from the bush. Even then they had to be carefully watched to prevent escape. He gave instances of natives who, using strength and cunning when unchained, had got away from vigilant custodians. If natives were not chained while being marched in from the bush, he said, unscrupulous police with a grudge against the aborigines might shoot them and state afterwards that they were shot while trying to escape.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4527, 5 April 1934, Page 5
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127CHAINING ABORIGINES King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4527, 5 April 1934, Page 5
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