Price Maurice’s overseer, FJ Hayward, reported to his employer in mid-December 1847 that the ‘Blacks were very troublesome’ at one of the stations, Appila. They took seven sheep, flour, tea, sugar and more. They were led by a man known as ‘Billy’ who had recently been tried for the murder of Native Constable Charley in November 1847.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)