Three Aboriginal men rush hutkeeper John Wood and take flour from a hut on Hope’s station, 5 March 1844
Three Aboriginal men approached hutkeeper John Wood at his hut on Magpie Creek and asked him for flour. On refusal, the men ‘rushed’ Wood and one man, possibly Kertamera (alias Charley), took 30 pounds of flour. The following day the police found Kertamera and some other Aboriginal people with flour a short distance from Wood’s hut. Kertamera was arrested. He appeared at the Supreme Court Criminal Sittings on 5 July and was found not guilty.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
Notes:
LocationAccuracy: Approximate
LocationAccuracy: Approximate
People involved
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Caldecotte (alias One-armed Charley)
Match note: Matched from legacy people.event_external_id to resolved_event.tlcm_id, mainly data from SA Frontier and its Legacies project.
Sources
- 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
Event mentions
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Three Aboriginal men rush hutkeeper John Wood and take flour from a hut on Hope’s station, 5 March 18445 Mar 1844 — Magpie CreekThree Aboriginal men approached hutkeeper John Wood at his hut on Magpie Creek and asked him for flour. On refusal, the men ‘rushed’ Wood and one man, possibly Kertamera (alias Charley), took 30 pounds of flour. The following day the police found Kertamera and some other Aboriginal people with flour a short distance from Wood’s hut. Kertamera was arrested. He appeared at the Supreme Court Criminal Sittings on 5 July and was found not guilty.
(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