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Supposed murder of white woman

Placename: Between Melbourne and Geelong
Layer: Aboriginal Raids on Colonists On The South Road
Type: Other

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Latitude: -37.9678
Longitude: 144.5591
Start Date: 1838-05-22
End Date: 1838-07-21

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"N.B. A great number of less important outrages have come indirectly to the knowledge of the Government, or been reported to the newspapers. And it is said that a white woman, the wife of a soldier, has been murdered between Melbourne and Geelong, though no official account has been received of it." pp356-357 Gipps, Sir George 'Aboriginal attacks summarised: Enclosure in dispatch from Sir George Gipps to Lord Glenelg, 21 July 1838' in Cannon, Michael (ed.) Historical Records of Victoria Vol 2A The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835-1839, Melbourne: Victorian Government Printing Office 1982

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