MYSTERY OF THE BUSH
TALES OF MURDER ANDj CRUELTY STATION MANAGER FOR TRIAL! United r.A. —By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 1.15 p.m. PERTH, Today. Th© mysterious disappearance oE natives in the North-West will bo probed when the trial of Bert Smith, 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 men and two natives rushed a camp and took six other natives away. One black man told the police they w r ere marched into the bush, where the two natives belonging to the white men wrere sent back. Then the captive natives were forced to collect saplings, to which they were chained and assaulted. From that time five of the captives have not been seen. Two days afterward two others were taken into the bush and they also disappeared. Smith's mate. Robinson, wras found dead in the bush. Later one man of the first batch managed to escape. He was an important writ ness in the police court.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 875, 20 January 1930, Page 9
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