LIQUOR CAUSES TRAGEDY
INQUEST ON PALM ISLAND VICTIMS BICKERING OFFICIALS Reed. 10.25 a.m.yBRISBANE, Today. An official inquiry has been held into the Palm Island tragedy. The magistrate declared the evidence disclosed considerable bickering among the officials in charge of the native compound. Mr. R. H. Currie had assaulted Dr. Patterson during one of these altercations, but intoxicating liquor was the real root of the trouble.
The superintendent of Palm Island. Mr. R. H. Currie, who recently lost his wife, became demented on January 4 and ran amok with a revolver. ‘lie then went to Fantome Island and killed his daughter, aged 20. and his son. aged 10, and burned their home.
When the demented man returned to Palm Island the natives shot him dead while he was landing. The bodies of the daughter and son were found in the ruins of the home on the adjoining island. Mr. Currie had evidently been greatly worried by complpjnts of his treatment of the natives.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 896, 13 February 1930, Page 11
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