James Coutts fired on Aboriginal people who were attempting to take sheep from Coutts’s sheepyard, 18 July 1853

Date: 18 Jul 1853
Place: Coutts’ station, Tuckockowie
Protector Moorhouse received information that on 18 July 1853, one of Mr Coutts’s shepherds was driving his sheep from the yard when a number of ‘natives’ appeared and prevented him from doing so. The shepherd reported this to Coutts. The two men returned to the yard and fired on the group. No injuries or deaths were reported.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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  • James Coutts fired on Aboriginal people who were attempting to take sheep from Coutts’s sheepyard, 18 July 1853
    18 Jul 1853 — Coutts’ station, Tuckockowie
    Protector Moorhouse received information that on 18 July 1853, one of Mr Coutts’s shepherds was driving his sheep from the yard when a number of ‘natives’ appeared and prevented him from doing so. The shepherd reported this to Coutts. The two men returned to the yard and fired on the group. No injuries or deaths were reported.
    (See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
    Source: Robert Foster, Skye Krichauff and Amanda Nettelbeck, The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2024, http://ua.edu.au/south-australian-frontier