SPEARED EMPLOYER.
Aboriginal to Stand Trial in Australia. ADELAIDE, July 10. After a quarrel with his employer, J. Giles, of Melbourne Station, near the Musgrave Ranges, an aborigine known as Paddy ” went, to a hut w'here he lived with his lubra, picked up a spear, and then attacked Giles, who was slightly wounded in the neck.
Giles, it w r as stated in Court, defended himself with a gun, and put three bullets into “ Paddy,” who has been committed for trial at Port Augusta. He is now in hospital with a fractured skull and thigh.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20361, 19 July 1934, Page 1
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