20 YEARS’ GAOL
ABORIGINES SENTENCED MURDER OF JAPANESE COMMENTS BY JUDGE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Aug. 2, noon.) DARWIN, Aug. 2. Judge Wells, in sentencing three
natives to 20 years’ imprisonment for the murder of one of the five Japanese who were killed in the Caledon Bay massacre of 1932. said he was convinced that the story that the Japanese seized lubras was a fabrication.
Judge Wells made comment about he need for protecting “members of
friendlv nation.”
He said that if members of a friendly nation came to the Australian coasts on lawful business, and were killed, and no punishment was meted out, a friendly nation could reasonably take matters into its own hands and deal with the natives itself.
Butcher, an aboriginal who killed a white man named Jennings and two lubras in June, was sentenced to death.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18465, 2 August 1934, Page 5
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