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Man killed at Faithfull's station

Placename: Oxley Flats
Layer: Aboriginal Raids on Colonists On The South Road
Type: Other

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Latitude: -36.3508
Longitude: 146.3249
Start Date: 1838-08-16
End Date: 1838-08-16

Description

"James Crossley, overseer to Mr W.P. Faithfull, states:... About two miles distant from the head station we found blood on the roadside, and traced where the deceased had been dragged to a waterhole about fifty yards from the where he fell... On examination there were four severe tomahawk wounds on his head (either of which was sufficient to cause instant death) and one slight one, beside two wounds on the left arm, and one apparently caused by a spear on the right, and his belly was opened and his bowels taken out." p334 W.P. Faithfull to Col. Sec., 17 August 1838 'Another of Faithfull's men killed' 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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