NATIVES DISAPPEAR.
WERE THEY KILLED ? NOTORIOUS CATTLE STEALERS. 'CHAINED TO TREES AT NIGHT. United Press Assn. —Elec, Tel.—Copyright. (Received March 31, 10.10 a.m.) PERTH, March 31. Investigations are being continued into the disappearance of natives in the north-west. Detective Flanagan is inquiring into allegations that nine aborigines were chained together and driven for miles through Kimbcrleys by a- white man on horseback, and chained to trees at night. He is also inquiring into the disappearance of a number of blacks, and the story that they have been killed and burnt. All were notorious cattle-stealers. The natives, it is alleged, were captured by a white man when they were released from gaol. Albert Smith, station manager, was acquitted at Derby on charges that he chained natives together and took them into the bush, after which they were not seen again.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17983, 31 March 1930, Page 7
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139NATIVES DISAPPEAR. Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17983, 31 March 1930, Page 7
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