Cattle killing on the Lake Hope run, c. 20 June 1868

Date: 20 Jun 1868
Place: Lake Hope Station, near Kopperamanna
Reports of cattle killing on Elder and Dean’s Lake Hope run. Police arrest two Aboriginal suspects, but they are released because they could not be identified.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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  • Cattle killing on the Lake Hope run, c. 20 June 1868
    20 Jun 1868 — Lake Hope Station, near Kopperamanna
    Reports of cattle killing on Elder and Dean’s Lake Hope run. Police arrest two Aboriginal suspects, but they are released because they could not be identified.
    (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