SHOT BY POLICE
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS. PROTEST BY MINISTER. Darwin, November 12. The Rev. A. McGregor, commenting on the ehooting of 17 aboriginals by the police, said: “It is an anomaly to shoot 17 natives like so many kangaroos when you intend to spend thousands of pounds on a trial to give two others who survived the benefit of British justice. Ido not feel vindictive, but I intend to try to persuade the Australian public that this thing shall not occur again. Settlers and police should be consistent in their indignation respecting Brooks’s murder. Let the settlers dispose of coloured mistresses so that the only trouble rankling in the native mind besides a few kicks and curses may be the question of hunger owing to drought.”.—Australian Press Association. Two aboriginals, charged with the murder of Frederick Brooks in Central Australia, were acquitted and discharged. Constable Murray, in evidence, said that while in pursuit of the natives at least 17 aboriginals, including two lubras, were killed. The natives threw boomerangs, which were effective at 150 yards, at the police. The constable added that the reason why the police did not shoot to wound rather than to kill, was because they had no means for succouring those wounded, as they were hundreds of miles from civilization.
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Southland Times, Issue 20641, 13 November 1928, Page 5
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