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Northam, Oct. 24.—Alfred Robert Dinah (27), an aboriginal, was charged before Mr. F. M. Read, S.M., in the Northam Police Court this morning with having been disorderly by  creating a disturbance in Peel terrace last night, and with having wandered in a prohibited area without authority. He was remanded for eight days on both charges.
Dinah's arrest followed a fatal attack on a soldier, Maitland Warmdean (30), of the 4th Training Battalion, Northam Military Camp, in Peel terrace about 10 o'clock last night. Warmdean died on his way to hospital through having been battered about the head with a picket torn from a fence.

Witnesses in the evidence stated that on the night of October 23, near the Transcontinental Hotel, Dinah struck Maitland Warmdean over the head with a picket, felled him to the ground, and then belaboured him with the same weapon.  Warmdean was taken to hospital in a military police patrol waggon at about 10 p.m. but was dead on arrival.

MANSLAUGHTER VERDICT
PERTH, December 19.
Albert Robert Dinah, who was charged with the murder of Maitland Warmdean, a half-caste soldier, at East Northam, on October 23, was found guilty yesterday of manslaughter  and sentenced to two years' hard labour. Witnesses stated that Dinah felled Warmdean to the ground with a picket and then belaboured him with it. Aboriginal Albert Robert  Dinah, recently released after serving two years for killing soldier Maitland Warmdean, met in Bassendean William Warmdean, father of the dead man. Argument  developed, Warmdean struck Dinah several times across the face with a stick. In Perth police court, elderly Indian Warmdean pleaded guilty to unlawful assault, was released on a bond of  £20. Magistrate Wallwork told him Dinah had been punished for his crime, warned him to keep away from him.