Overseer To Face Killing
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Charge In N. Guinea
THE Sydney Central Court on January * 25 ordered that Galfred Mervyn Col lins Ffrost, 24, an N.G. overseer, who had been arrested in Sydney, should be returned to Rabaul to stand trial for the unlawful killing of a native, Mulmul.
With Warrant Officer H. J. Stevenson, of the N.G. Police Force, as escort, Ffrost departed by the Macdhui on February 4.
Ffrost, who was employed in New Guinea on Meto Plantation, claimed that his boss-boy Bonri had been convicted of the offence. The magistrate said it was alleged that Bonri had poked the ferrule of an umbrella into Mulmul’s eye. causing his death, but that Ffrost had flogged Mulmul with a ficus root while he lay dying on a concrete floor and that had accelerated Mulmul’s death.
The boss-boy Bonri was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour in the Rabaul Supreme Court on January 8 by Judge Wanliss. The charge was manslaughter.