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Saturday / Matthias Davis / Const-in-charge

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Urgent
Electric Telegraph, Queensland
Wds. 41
Amt. 7/2 Collect
From Cloncurry h. 28 m.
Dated 17.4. 1888
Message for Commr Police
Black boy came in from
Mt Merlin Station & reported
two 2 black boys two 2 gins
one 1 white man poisoned &
buried in Mt Merlin Police Magistrate
Dr & Sergt gone out
Mt Merlin hundred & thirty 130
miles from here left on
Saturday
Matthias Davis
Const-in-charge
[In margin] B.B.M.
18.4.88