Fatal shooting of Aboriginal man on John Horrocks’ station, 18 February 1839

Date: 18 Feb 1840
Place: Mt Horrocks, (Horrocks’s station, Penwortham)
On 18 February, a party at Horrocks’ station consisting of Police Constable Cotterell, Mr Edwards, Corporal Deane and Thomas Flannery shot dead an Aboriginal man supposedly responsible for the attack on Horrocks’ shepherd John Thicket five days earlier.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
Notes:
LocationAccuracy: Close

People involved

  • Captain Jack (to act as interpreter)
    Match note: Matched from legacy people.event_external_id to resolved_event.tlcm_id, mainly data from SA Frontier and its Legacies project.
  • ‘The Black Prince’
    Match note: Matched from legacy people.event_external_id to resolved_event.tlcm_id, mainly data from SA Frontier and its Legacies project.

Sources

Event mentions

  • Fatal shooting of Aboriginal man on John Horrocks’ station, 18 February 1839
    18 Feb 1840 — Mt Horrocks, (Horrocks’s station, Penwortham)
    On 18 February, a party at Horrocks’ station consisting of Police Constable Cotterell, Mr Edwards, Corporal Deane and Thomas Flannery shot dead an Aboriginal man supposedly responsible for the attack on Horrocks’ shepherd John Thicket five days earlier.
    (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