Four Natives Sentenced
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To Death In N. Guinea
Fiom Our Own Correspondent
Rabaul, Apr. 14.
TPHE criminal sessions of the N.G. * Supreme Court opened here on April 1 with His Honour Judge F. B. Phillips presiding.
Four Bougainville natives appeared to stand trial on a charge of wilfully mur dering a native, Obel, on February 17.
They pleaded not guilty. The Crown al leged that the natives attacked Obel as he left Ramandata village, near Buka Passage, early one morning, and that after wounding him with knives and a tomahawk threw him into the sea. His body was later washed up at the village of Manob.
The four accused were found guilty and sentence of death was passed on them
Whippings For Wau Native
Another case, which was remanded from Wau District Court, was that of a native charged with Intent to indecently insult a European female. He pleaded guilty, and was convicted and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment with hard labour and two whippings of 18 strokes.