SERIOUS CHARGES
DISAPPEARANCE OF NATIVES IN WEST AUSTRALIA CRUELTY AND MURDER BY WHITES ALLEGED 'United Press Association—By Eloctrlo Telegraph—Copyright
(Received 31st March, 10.5 a.m.) PERTH, This Day
Investigations are being continued into the disappearance of natives in the north-west. Detective Flanagan is inquiring into allegations that nine aborigines were chained together and driven for miles by white men on horseback and chained to trees at night; also into the total disappearance of a number of blacks and a story that they had been killed and burnt. AID were notorious cattle stealers.
The natives, it is alleged, were captured by white men when they were released' from gaol. Albert Smith, a station manager, was acquitted at Derby on charges that he chained natives together and took them into the bush, after which they were not seen again.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 March 1930, Page 5
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