Raid and attack on 'Warren Gunyah'
The next morning (26th), Lewis ‘proceeded with Tindale to his station, distant about Four Miles’. At Tindale’s ‘Warren-Gunyah’ they came across an even more gruesome find. There they ‘saw the Hut with a quantity of Brush drew around it, and the Hut burnt down’. When they looked inside the remains of the hut, they ‘saw the bodies of two men parts of which had been Burnt away’. A more detailed investigation of Tindale’s property led to the discovery of another dead man. In the daylight, as Lewis later told Commandant Morisset, ‘on looking around … we found the body of James Buckley one of Mr Tindall’s Servants as Corpse about Fifty yards from the Hut’.
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Sources
- Deposition re death of James Buckley, suspected murdered by Aborigines, 29 May 1824, SRNSW, NRS 897, 6065, 4/1799, pp. 47–50; Gazette, 12 August 1824, p. 2.
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Raid and attack on 'Warren Gunyah'25 May 1824 — Warren GunyahThe next morning (26th), Lewis ‘proceeded with Tindale to his station, distant about Four Miles’. At Tindale’s ‘Warren-Gunyah’ they came across an even more gruesome find. There they ‘saw the Hut with a quantity of Brush drew around it, and the Hut burnt down’. When they looked inside the remains of the hut, they ‘saw the bodies of two men parts of which had been Burnt away’. A more detailed investigation of Tindale’s property led to the discovery of another dead man. In the daylight, as Lewis later told Commandant Morisset, ‘on looking around … we found the body of James Buckley one of Mr Tindall’s Servants as Corpse about Fifty yards from the Hut’.Source: Deposition re death of James Buckley, suspected murdered by Aborigines, 29 May 1824, SRNSW, NRS 897, 6065, 4/1799, pp. 47–50; Gazette, 12 August 1824, p. 2.