Man attacked, wounded
Acting Bathurst Surgeon Stephen Geary Wilks conducted autopsies on seven bodies in attacks in May 1824. He recognised ‘David Brown, a free man Hired servant to Mr Terry’ as he had ‘been for some time under [Wilks’s] care in consequence of severe wounds and ill treatment at the hands of the blacks about twelve months ago’. Brown’s body ‘bore marks of similar murderous violence’, quite probably targeting him again for crimes against Wiradyjuri people that Brown had committed the year before.
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Sources
- Depositions re bodies of men killed by Aborigines, SRNSW, NRS 897, 6065, 4/1799, pp. 23–25, 27–29; David Brown, Re absence in registers, SRNSW, NRS 937, 6013, 4/3511, p. 587; David Brown, Report re his murder at Bathurst by natives, SRNSW, NRS 897, 6065, 4/1800, p. 137.
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Man attacked, wounded1 Jun 1823 — Milla-Murrah (possibly)Acting Bathurst Surgeon Stephen Geary Wilks conducted autopsies on seven bodies in attacks in May 1824. He recognised ‘David Brown, a free man Hired servant to Mr Terry’ as he had ‘been for some time under [Wilks’s] care in consequence of severe wounds and ill treatment at the hands of the blacks about twelve months ago’. Brown’s body ‘bore marks of similar murderous violence’, quite probably targeting him again for crimes against Wiradyjuri people that Brown had committed the year before.Source: Depositions re bodies of men killed by Aborigines, SRNSW, NRS 897, 6065, 4/1799, pp. 23–25, 27–29; David Brown, Re absence in registers, SRNSW, NRS 937, 6013, 4/3511, p. 587; David Brown, Report re his murder at Bathurst by natives, SRNSW, NRS 897, 6065, 4/1800, p. 137.