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On this week in... 1948

Bloody brawl

On 27 May 1948, Garnett Jones was tried at the Court of Native Affairs at Wagin for the murder of Dempsey Narkle. Both men were registered under Western Australia’s Native Administration Act (1936), with newspapers describing the young man Jones as a ‘half-caste’. Narkle died of head injuries allegedly sustained during a brawl with Jones at Quindanning. Jones was found guilty and a sentence of death recorded.

This trial report is from Great Southern Herald

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