MURDEROUS BLACKS.
.VICTIMS KILLED WHILE LYING ASLEEP, CANNIBALISM S USPECfTED, By Electric Tclcgraßh.—Pen Press Association —Copyright. PERTH, June 28. Later reports of the murders by Macks state that moat o£ the Victims; were, swagsmen or men Willi pack-horses. . Tlio blacks killed their victims whilst goinig to Got'&fiet'ds Creole and Ashlotne rivor. They were ‘sipcareci or tomahawked while asleep. Sonic of the hollies were mutilat-cd.-®ud -tb -la believed, in more than one ’ instance were cut up and caten. Besides nine murders already reported, two others aro Siuspoetcd. The ringleaders. Monkey and Toby, have been arrested.,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1494, 30 June 1905, Page 4
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