JAPANESE MURDERED
ABORIGINES GUILTY DEATH SENTENCE PASSED DARWIN, March 30. At the Supreme Court to-day, live aborigines were charged with the murder of Nagata, a Japanese fiehernaii, on the lugger Ouida. It was stated that police found the lugger beached at Cape Hay, stripped of all movable articles, and some gear in a deserted blacks’ camp nearby. Evidence was given that the lugger came close inshore, and that the Japanese took three lubras aboard, fhe lubras stayed there two nights. The blacks asked for tobacco, but the Japanese refused. The blacks then decided to kill the Japanese and loot the lugge". The blacks took Nagata shoot ducks, and on the return trip shot him.
Other Japanese on the lugger, it was said, were also murdered. Counsel for the defence said the ringoader had not yet been captured. The jury returned a verdict of guilty jf murder.
The judge passed the death sentence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18057, 6 April 1933, Page 7
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