Fatal shooting of Padlulta by Police Constable Prewitt, 11 April 1844

Date: 11 Apr 1844
Place: Happy Valley , Port Lincoln
Police Constables William Prewitt and Henry Lock approached a group of half a dozen people who were sitting around their fires. Prewitt claimed to have shot Padlulta in self-defence. Schurmann provides a contrasting account demonstrating Padlulta’s defencelessness and that the policemen ran away leaving Padlulta helpless and dying.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
Notes:
LocationAccuracy: Close

People involved

  • 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.
  • Padlulta
    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

  • Fatal shooting of Padlulta by Police Constable Prewitt, 11 April 1844
    11 Apr 1844 — Happy Valley , Port Lincoln
    Police Constables William Prewitt and Henry Lock approached a group of half a dozen people who were sitting around their fires. Prewitt claimed to have shot Padlulta in self-defence. Schurmann provides a contrasting account demonstrating Padlulta’s defencelessness and that the policemen ran away leaving Padlulta helpless and dying.
    (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