CHAINED UP AT NIGHTS
NATIVES ILL-TREATED BY BUSHMEN INQUIRY IN AUSTRALIA Reed. 10.40 a.m. PERTH. Today. Investigations are being continued into the disappearance of natives in the north-west. Detective Flanagan is inquiring into the allegations that nine Aborigines were chained together and driven for miles through the Kimberleys by a white man on horseback and chained to trees at night. He is inquiring also into the total disappearance of a number of blacks, and the story that they had been killed and burned. All were notorious cattle stealers. The natives, it is alleged, were captured by white men when they were released from gaol. Albert Smith, a station manager, was acquitted at Derby on charges that he chained natives together and took them into the bush, after which I they were not seen again.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 935, 31 March 1930, Page 11
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134CHAINED UP AT NIGHTS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 935, 31 March 1930, Page 11
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