TWO MEN MURDERED.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4479, 13 October 1922, Page 2

TWO MEN MURDERED.

BY WEST AUSTRALIAN BLACKS.

News has been received in Melbourne that two white men have been murdered by natives at Hall’s Creek, in the North west of! Australia. They are Joseph Condren and Timothy O’Sullivan, both employees pf trie Billiluna Pastoral Company. Condren was manager of the Billiluna Pastoral Company. Two graves have been discovered, and it is presumed that Condren and O’Sullivan were buried by the natives. It is further stated that the murderers tooted rations, firearms and ammunition, and then sent a half-caste boy to report the matter. They also sent threatening messages, stating that they would finish any white men who should follow them. The chief inspector of the PostmasterGeneral’s Department, Mr E. Woodrow, who is a native pf Western Australia. commenting on the messages, said that this was not the first, case of murder occurring on lonely stations in the North ofl Australia. The country was subdivided into pastoral 'holdings, Hall’s Creek being in the centre. There are only two or three white men on the large stations in charge pf the native and half-caste employees.