Manslaughter Of
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18 Months’ Gaol For
Papuan Native
From Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, May 15,
BEFORE His Honour Mr. Justice Gore at the Central Court at Samarai, George Roberts, a cattleman employed on Gili Gili Plantation, Milne Bay, in the Eastern Division, came up for trial early in May on a charge of killing a native labourer.
It was alleged that Roberts kicked the native, who later died from a burst spleen. Certain medical evidence was sub mitted by the defence, and as a result the charge was altered from murder to that of manslaughter. Roberts was con victed and sentenced to 18 months’ im prisonment to be served in Port Moresby gaol.
Mr. E. B. Bignold prosecuted for the Crown, and Mr. W. Brian Molloy, barris ter of Port Moresby, acted as counsel for the defence.
Mr. B. W. Costello, of Girigiri Planta tion, Kokopo, New Britain, arrived in Sydney from Rabaul with his wife and child by the June Neptuna.
Mr. H. Hughes, a pilot for Guinea Air ways Limited at Lae, New Guinea, arrived in Australia by the Neptuna on June 1.