Toby, Tommy, Frying Pan and Rosy Wine charged with stealing at least fifty of Mr Watts’ sheep, April 1848

Date: 1 Apr 1848
Place: Mr Watts’ station at Stony Creek in the vicinity of Mt Brown.
On 22 April 1848, Corporal Lang from the Mount Remarkable Police Station and Captain Watts’s overseer from White’s Creek arrived in Burra with four Aboriginal men suspected of having stolen over one hundred sheep. The Resident Magistrate thought the evidence was inconclusive, but was informed by the Attorney General that the men should be tried at the Supreme Court Criminal Sittings in June. The bill against Toby, Tommy, Frying Pan and Rosy Wine was dismissed due to unsatisfactory evidence.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
Notes:
LocationAccuracy: Approximate

People involved

  • Frying Pan
    Match note: Matched from legacy people.event_external_id to resolved_event.tlcm_id, mainly data from SA Frontier and its Legacies project.
  • Rosy Wine
    Match note: Matched from legacy people.event_external_id to resolved_event.tlcm_id, mainly data from SA Frontier and its Legacies project.
  • Toby
    Match note: Matched from legacy people.event_external_id to resolved_event.tlcm_id, mainly data from SA Frontier and its Legacies project.
  • Tommy
    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

  • Toby, Tommy, Frying Pan and Rosy Wine charged with stealing at least fifty of Mr Watts’ sheep, April 1848
    1 Apr 1848 — Mr Watts’ station at Stony Creek in the vicinity of Mt Brown.
    On 22 April 1848, Corporal Lang from the Mount Remarkable Police Station and Captain Watts’s overseer from White’s Creek arrived in Burra with four Aboriginal men suspected of having stolen over one hundred sheep. The Resident Magistrate thought the evidence was inconclusive, but was informed by the Attorney General that the men should be tried at the Supreme Court Criminal Sittings in June. The bill against Toby, Tommy, Frying Pan and Rosy Wine was dismissed due to unsatisfactory evidence.
    (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