Australian files- to hand report tha't of three aboriginal blacks, charged with having murdered the Rev. Robert Hall (formerly of Bdendate), superintendent of the Mornington Island mission station, on October 18 last, one pleaded guilty to murder and another was found guilty as an accessory, sentence of death being passed upon both. The judge undertook, however, to remit to the authorities the jury's recommendation for clemency in the case of 'the second black, who had handed to the murderer the tomahawk for the deed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3347, 8 May 1918, Page 37
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