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Issue Details: First known date: 1894... 1894 Circuit Court
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An account of the trial of an Aboriginal man sentenced to death for the murder of a Chinese man.

Affiliation Notes

  • Associated with the AustLit subset Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia' as the work contains references to Chinese people.

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Lurdurdminyi : Crescent Lagoon Amy Dirngayg , Lulu Jilimbirrnga , Francesca Merlan (interviewer), 1996 single work oral history biography
— Appears in: Big River Country : Stories from Elsey Station 1996; (p. 28-34) The true story of the killing of a Chinese man by an Aboriginal man for the goods he was carrying, and the subsequent justice meted out by Europeans.
Lurdurdminyi : Crescent Lagoon : Harold Giles' Version. Harold Giles , 1996 single work extract
— Appears in: Big River Country : Stories from Elsey Station 1996; (p. 34-36) Following the murder of a Chinese man by an Aboriginal man, the Northern Territory law enforcers decide to make an example of the offender by gathering as many Aboriginal people together as possible to witness his hanging. After this had taken place, the authorities distributed a variety of goods to the Aboriginal people supposedly to encourage good behaviour.
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Last amended 29 Jan 2010 11:57:24
3 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3327500 Circuit Courtsmall AustLit logo Northern Territory Times and Gazette
Subjects:
  • Roper River area, East Arnhem Land, Arnhem Land, Top End, Northern Territory,
  • 1894
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