Nolondo, a boy of eight or nine years old, fired at by George Lawson, 4 February 1846

Date: 4 Feb 1846
Place: Happy Valley, Port Lincoln district
Around 3am on 4 February, George Lawson and Mr [William] Smith were woken by the sound of rustling in the straw. Suspecting Aboriginal people of taking wheat, Lawson fired a fowling piece loaded with shot and hit Nolondo. Government Resident Charles Driver later picked shot out of Nolondo’s back, and reported that, in all material points, Nolondo’s statement corroborated by that of Mr Lawson. Lieutenant Governor Robe questioned Lawson’s actions in taking the law into his own hands, and Driver’s failure to hold a Magisterial investigation into the matter.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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People involved

  • Nolondo
    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

  • Nolondo, a boy of eight or nine years old, fired at by George Lawson, 4 February 1846
    4 Feb 1846 — Happy Valley, Port Lincoln district
    Around 3am on 4 February, George Lawson and Mr [William] Smith were woken by the sound of rustling in the straw. Suspecting Aboriginal people of taking wheat, Lawson fired a fowling piece loaded with shot and hit Nolondo. Government Resident Charles Driver later picked shot out of Nolondo’s back, and reported that, in all material points, Nolondo’s statement corroborated by that of Mr Lawson. Lieutenant Governor Robe questioned Lawson’s actions in taking the law into his own hands, and Driver’s failure to hold a Magisterial investigation into the matter.
    (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