MASSACRE BY NATIVES.
LENIENCY TOWARDS MURDERERS
MURDER OF WHOLE CREW. By telegraph, Press Ass’p, 'Copyright Received 7 23 p.m., Dec 16 Port Darwin, Dec 16. Nows has been received of a massacre on Victoria river.
It is bolieved that the blacks attacked a Government bore party,killing two. Tbe boro party captured aod ohained seven or eight natives. Bradshaw’s launch arrived shortly after tho massaore and undertook to oonvey tbe natives to Pott Darwin.
Shortly after leaving Bradshaw had the irons removed. The natives imme* diately attacked and murdered the whole crew, excepting a black boy. The victime names are Bradshaw, Eggeroffe, Dounock, Skhan, and four black boys.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19051218.2.23
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1629, 18 December 1905, Page 2
Word Count
107MASSACRE BY NATIVES. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1629, 18 December 1905, Page 2
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in