SENSATIONAL AFFRAY.
NATIVE PRISONERS REVOLT. PERTH, Nov. 7. Tho Commissioner of Police has received word of a sensational struggle between a constable, aided by a native tracker, and six native prisoners in the north-west district. The prisoners attacked the constable and tracker. A shot fired by the former into the ground failed to frighten them. The revolver then jammed and the constable and tracker were in serious danger, a severe hand-to-hand fight following. When the revolver was found to work again the constable shot one native dead, thus ending the affray. The constable and tracker were both seriously injured.—Press Association.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 288, 9 November 1925, Page 7
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