MASSACRE BY BLACKS.
BRADSHAW’S FOLLY,
By telegraph, Press Aos’n, Cojiyright Port Darwin, Deo. 18,
The other whites st-ongly objected to Bradshaw knocking tbe irons off tbe blacks. After some a'tercation Bradshaw got his own wpy. " The party went to sleep, and apparently no watch was kept. Late in the evening, “ Bobby,” a black boy who escaped, Baw the prisoners kill Skeahan and Dannock, and almost simultaneously Eggeroff and a natiye in the engine room were killed. Bradshaw was awakened by the noise, and struck down with a tomahawk. “ Bobby ” was 12 nights in reaching the station, which places the lata tragedy approximately at November 26ffi.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1630, 19 December 1905, Page 2
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