Labourer Enoch Peglar was killed by a long sharp instrument (a kangaroo bone or wooden stick) that pierced his heart. Two men from the upper Gulf were briefly imprisoned for Peglar’s death.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)

At Wortappa, John Hallett’s sheep station near Mt Bryan, a group of five Europeans led by William Moore Carter made a dawn raid on a group of Aboriginal people who had taken some sheep. Two Aboriginal people were killed, and another two injured. On hearing of the confrontation Governor Grey ordered an investigation. Spratt, Smith and Pritt were committed on the charge of feloniously killing Ngunnirri Burka and Mary Ann. Despite the determined efforts of government officials, Carter escaped arrest, aided by Edward Leake, a pastoralist stationed at Mt Gambier.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)

On 25 March, Evelyn Sturt reports the loss of about 250 sheep over the previous six weeks. Corporal McCulloch arrests ‘William’ and ‘Charley’ for theft of Sturt’s sheep.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)

After a report that the Aboriginal man ‘William’, assisted by others, had killed four head of cattle, the station owner’s overseer, Michael Flannigan, tracked the suspects to Lake Hawdon’. In an ensuing fight Flannigan the Aboriginal man, suffered sword wounds inflicted by Flannigan and subsequently died.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)

Seven Aboriginal men; Malia (alias Charley), Pedia (alias Jacky), Malia (alias Jemmy), Pedia (alias William), Coonia (alias Kangaroo), Coonia (alias Tunbo), and Wariol (alias Tommy), were charged at Clare Court with stealing sheep from Ferguson and Younghusband’s station, near Crystal Brook.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)