QSA847287 1888 Telegram from William S Walsh to Robert Gray 24 August, In letter 88:7588 Colonial Secretarys Office In Letters DR69590 (Correspondence with the Colonial Secretary's Office)

QSA847287 1888 Telegram from William S Walsh to Robert Gray 24 August, In letter 88:7588 Colonial Secretarys Office In Letters DR69590

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Electric Telegraph, Queensland

Wds. 79 Amt. 6/6 OHMS From Geraldton Dated 24 8 1888. MESSAGE for Under Colonial Secretary BRISBANE.

A laboring man named Edmond Meagher left Geraldton yesterday for his work on Goondi plantation a few miles distant accompanied by two aboriginals recently recruited labours [sic] his body was found on a road leading through the plantation at noon with a fearful wound in the neck the blacks had decamped but they were last night arrested on suspicion of

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Electric Telegraph, Queensland

Dated 24 8 1888.

BRISBANE

having committed the murder this is the first known murder on a white man recorded by the Johnstone River blacks

W.S. Walsh P.M.

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QSA847287 1888 Telegram from William S Walsh to Robert Gray 24 August, In letter 88:7588 Colonial Secretarys Office In Letters DR69590

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