MAJESTY OF THE LAW.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 176, 26 June 1926, Page 3

MAJESTY OF THE LAW.

TROOPER’S 800-MILE RIDE. PACKHOIISES AND PRISONER. SYDNEY, June 17. On the Sedan station in the Northern Territory recently a Chinese shot a blackfellow. Committed for trial by a justice at the nearest township, on a charge of shooting with intent to murder, the local constable was faced with the problem of getting the Chinese to the Supreme Court at Darwin, 800 miles distant. The trackless route led up through desert and unpeopled plains from the very heart of Australia to the northernmost point of the Territory. With 25 pack horses, carrying food and feed and water for all, and accompanied by a black tracker, the constable and his Chines© prisoner ret off. For 40 days the party journeyed over the Barkly Tablelands, and wild lowlands bordering Arnheim Land, until at last the Chinese was lodged in a cell at Darwin. When the party left Sedan, the manager of the station, who was the chief Crown witness, set out on horseback for Camoowoal, oyer the . Queensland border. Here, at the terminal point of the air rervice, he travelled by aeroplane down to Charleville, and caught the southern mail train to BrisbaneAt that port the manager went aboard the steamer for Darwin,. When the manager’s evidence was heard, the Chinese was sentenced tt> three years’ imprisonment. The constable went back with hfs horses, but the station manager waited for the steamer —for 28 days.