MURDER BY BLACKS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 787, 9 April 1910, Page 5

MURDER BY BLACKS.

, • A PEARLING TRAGEDY. By Telegraph-Press Association-Oopyriirht. ; (Rec. April 9, 1 a.m.) • • -'_• ■■'■*■■;■; ; . -Perth, April 8.',.' Six. aboriginals have been sentenced to death at Broome for the', murder of Pritchard' Jones. Jones and Massin were, partners in a pearling boat. The aborigines enticed Jones ashore, after which Massin,, when alone, was treacherously. attacked by a native, whom he shot and threw overboard. . " Massin reported the .disappearance of Jones, and the latter's remains were found after several weeks' search. OTHER MURDERS. : SENTENCED TO DEATH. ' Br Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrltrht Adelaide, April. 8. ; BoneUo, a Portuguese, was sentenced to death for the murder'of a. little girl named Norma Plush, at Murioopta, 49 miles north' of Adelaide, on March 5. [It was explained in a previous cablegramo that BoneUo was jealous of the attachment of the girl, aged twelve, for .another. person. He fired an ineffective' shot, while the girl was reading; then, after a"> struggle with ' the girl's mother, fired a second shot, which proved fatal] .; ALLEGED MURDERER'S: SUICIDE. ' London, April .7. •The man; Elazar, supposed to be a Turk (who on' March 1 last entered the office of 'Sassoon and Sons, Leadenho.il Street., London, and shot his brother, Louis' Niffih, alias Elazar) committed suicide'by strangulation. . [The accused was on remand on a charge of murder. He said when arrested that he had shot his brother because 'he' considered the brother's wife was a disgrace to the family.]