Death Penalty for Murderers of Patrol Officer
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Patrol Officer
TWO natives of the Aitape area of New Guinea, who had been found guilty of the murder of Patrol Officer Elliott at Wanali, in the Aitape hinterland, on July 1, came before Judge Griffiths in the Supreme Court in Rabaul, at the end of September, and were sentenced to death.
The judge said that much of the evi dence in regard to the murder of the patrol-officer was confused, but it was clear that the two accused crept upon the official while he was in a rest-house defending himself from an attack by the villagers, and that they fatally speared him from behind.
Mr. G. A. Bayer, manager of the new Hotel Moresby, Port Moresby, who recent ly underwent an appendicitis operation, is still in hospital, but is making satis factory progress.