MISSING NATIVES
DISAPPEARANCE INVESTIGATED. (Australian Press Association) (Received this dnv at 10 a.m.) PERTH, March 31. Investigations are being continued into the disappearance of natives in the north-west. Detective Flanagan is inquiring into allegations that nine Aborigines were chained together and driven for miles through Kimberley by white men on horscbac-k. and chained to trees at night; also the total disappearance of a number of blacks and the story that they have been killed and burnt. All were notorious 'cattle steamers. The mvt'ives, it is alleged, were captured by white men when they were released' from gaol. Albert Smith, station manager, was acquitted at Derby on charges that 'he chained natives together, took them into the bush after which they were not seen again.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1930, Page 5
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124MISSING NATIVES Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1930, Page 5
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