THE MAN WHO CAPTURED SCHEEPERS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 November 1901, Page 4

THE MAN WHO CAPTURED SCHEEPERS.

Mr Arthur Vogan, the Australian Scout, why distinguished himself in South Africa recently, by the capture of Commandant Schoepers, hails from Tauranga, North Island, and has relatives there. For many years Vogan was exploring and prospecting Northern and Western Queensland, and while there he procurrd the materials for his book on " The Black Police," which created such a stir among the squatters and Government of Queensland. With unspairing and caustic pen, Vogan laid open the murderous policy of the white men who went north to take up land, and who shot down the aboriginals on sight, sometimes whole tribes, at a single massacre. The black police were openly subsidised by those squatters, and the natives were hunted down and murdered in cold blood in scores, man, woman, and child being slaughtered indiscriminately ; only the younf,' girls being spared, for what purpose can be easily imagined. Arthur Vogan's exposure of these massacres stirred the whole of Queensland, and opened the eyes of the Australian world to the heinous crimes perpetrated by the black and white butchers employed by the Queensland Government "in the Native Mounted Police Force, So angered were the squatters by Vogan's

aocusations in "The Black Police, that it was rumoured a price was set onhis life: and that if the black police could ha ,£ met with him, anywhere between the Herbert and the Flinders, Arthur Vogan would never have been heard of or seen again. He has had more than an adventurous life, and his recent exploit in South Africa recalls his name to many Queenslanders who have shuddered over the ghastly details of the raids, massacres, and murders of aborignes by the Black Police of that country.