GUILTY OF MURDER.
ABORIGINAL CONVICTED
(Received 10.45 a.m.) United Press Assn.—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright. DAR WIN, This Day
The aboriginal Nemaluk was found guilty of having murdered a Japanese named Owashi at Port. Keats in July 1931 and sentenced to death.
Two other Japanese were also- killed at- the same time and for tJh.eir murder five natives are already con- \ icted. Nemaluk's sentence is to be commuted to life imprisonment as it lias been tin practice never to hang an aborigine in the Northern Territory.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12619, 11 April 1934, Page 6
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