Constable

Joseph COLLINS

YEAR OF DEATH

1893

JURISDICTION

Western Australia

DETAILS OF DEATH

Constable Collins and a small party were investigating cattle stealing complaints from Durack Station when he was attacked and speared to death by Aborigines at Behn River via Wyndham, East Kimberley. He had joined the Police Force just eight months earlier.

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