A shocking affair is reported by the Maryborough Chronicle :— " We hear from a correspondent at Gladstone, whose veracity is undoubted, that a youth holding some appointment in the Native Police has been amusing himself by shooting several aborigines in cold blood, apparently without the slightest provocation. It appears that he took away two black boys from a stockman who was en route to Milton with some imported bolls, kept them in handcuffs all night, and next day took them into a scrub and shot one dead. . He then went to the head station, and fired into the native camp, killing and wounding several moire. He then went to the head station, and fired into the native camp, killing and wounding several more. The matter was reported to Mr Rich, the Resident Police Magistrate, who is gone out to hold an inquest; Our informant adds that Carry, the murdered boy, has been in Mr J. A. Turner's and Sir M. C. O'Oonnell's employ for yeara, an&no charge has ever been made against ' hint.',
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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1368, 17 December 1872, Page 4
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