SERIOUS CHARGES
AGAINST STATION MANAGER
IN NORTH-WEST AUSTRALIA
(Australian Press Association)
PERTH, Jan. 20
Another mysterious disappearance of natives in the north-west of Australia will be probed when the trial of Bert Smith, the manager of a station on the Fitzroy River, is heard. Smith was committed for trial this week ,at Derby on seven charges of assaulting natives, it is alleged that two white m'cn and two natives rushed a camp and took six other juut/ves away.
One black told the police that they marched for a day into the hush, where two natives belonging to the white men were sent hack. Then the natives were forced to collect saplings, to which they were chained, and they were 1 then assaulted. From that time five of the captives have not been seen.
• Tw/O days afnerwaxds two!, oth'c© blacks were taken into the hush, and they also disappeared. • Smith’s mate, named Robinson', was found dead in the hush later. One man of the first batch managed to escape. Ho was an important witness in the police court.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1930, Page 6
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