NATIVE MURDERERS
SENTENCES COMMUTED. FEDERAL POLICY.
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(Received June 27, 10.10 a.m.) CANBERRA, June 27. The Premier, Mr J. A. Lyons, announced that the Federal Cabinet has deeided to oomnjute to imprisonment for hfe the sentences of death passed on eight aborigines who were eharged with the murder of two white prospectors named Arinski and Hoch on the Fitzmauriee river in November, 1932. The modification of the death sentences is in accordahce with the long-standing policy of the Federal Government not to infliet capital punishment upon aborigines for crimes committed outside the sphere of civilisation in north Australia,
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 27 June 1934, Page 5
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103NATIVE MURDERERS Marlborough Express, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 27 June 1934, Page 5
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