LONE POLICEMAN AND BLACK TRACKER FIGHT ABORIGINAL ATTACKERS.
BUSH ENCOUNTER ENDS IN VICTORY FOR LAW. r.y Telegraph.--Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and X.Z. Cable Association. PKRTII. November 7. The Commissioner of Police has received word of a sensational struggle between a constable, aided by a. native tracker, and six native prisoners in the North Westi district. The prisoners suddenly attacked the constable and the tracker. A shot fired by the former into the ground failed to frighten them. The revolver then jammed and the constable and the tracker were in serious clanger. A severe hand-to-hand fight followed. When the revolver was found to work again the constable shot one native dead, thus ending the affray. The constable and the tracker were both seriously injured.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17689, 9 November 1925, Page 3
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