SQUATTER DISAPPEARS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11443, 24 January 1918, Page 7

SQUATTER DISAPPEARS.

TRAGEDY OF THE FAR NORIH- • WEST.

( . . Sydney, Jan. IG. Quo of .those' minor ao common;in- fins hind-of yvide spaces, has lioon'reportort'frdtji the far: northwest. , The , s.ccne of* it is that great empty region 'behind Brpohiii away hacl j i no xtluy border,' letwchh West Atisfnilhi rinl the' Kortlforu Territory. , In February of,, 1-st year ITerhert Kobert power, part .ow.ner of Isdell JuncfiQrr.plation,. m miles ] inland from Berby, .loft his hohiestead alooo, enjrout'e Wr Thnc Creek,' in the Northern, Territory, .over 500miles away." 'He w;.S gOing'gco pnr 1 - chase a team' of, donkeys. .The task before, .him wt’s a dangerous onei, end it dtps. ,tlie wet season,‘.but he' appears |fo,.| iffifo v made;, little, prc!» vision jouyuey. c ,, i Bower ~'\x^.s„.,never seen again 1 . Ho. vv.fs,supposed to ,tr, vel via Hall.’s Creokj.tput he hever n’rrived.at this station,' only, ,ldO mile's away. The' wilderness., yoinplotely sjyal lowed him up r , „ r Aft,er a time,'„\vhch he did not appeay, pnyvvpero ijm'pi'ihcg n to he fell, , a»(i' the police began to search. WijtlV, .black . tra'clters they went over ! tlfo routes which Bower nifglit" pavS .f’oTi.Owed, but they slightest trace of .•.V-.-Ti'i'-. - .Then, ..some aborigines told thepolice""that J "certaifi'uatlveA' liad at-,. tack‘6il : Bdd’dr, Etr/teii' hkWTO'deatlj,;and throw u-Ms I body,Yvdid.his rille, and othei; p-propyr ty ); -in to a deqp, pool in'tho Leopold'Ranges. 1 po. : natives inii’Pc'ilted-wehdil'etaiiied, the pool v.':ts 1 h r di'^ged," hhdrvth'e whole mciu'iky ,, ' , -’ l sea ; rched, H bnt''d'ii- vaiii. Then -detectives';, ctic '•fromr Perth, ;iauV v tDJ3fe;i ,npthe: case,- apd -ito; them the abqidgpies- ultimately confessed that, tiiyir '.'story ' of murder was .'a ‘TAo hatives-iu'eustody were.; ithgif iTleffsed. , : . „•

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