White Man Clubbed to Death by Blacks
GRIM BUSH TRAGEDY
EIGHT NATIVES SHOT
Reed. 11.20 a.m. DARWIN, To-day. An aboriginal youth, giving evidence at the trial of two aboriginals who are charged with the murder of Frederick Brooks in Central Australia, said that a lubra (a native woman) was used as a decoy.
Brooks was ambushed by a party of natives who clubbed him to death and buried his body in a rabbit burrow. The police pursued the natives €0 miles into the bush. The natives showed fight and eight were shot dead. The two survivors are now undergoing trial.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 506, 8 November 1928, Page 9
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