A party of between five and eight Europeans carrying firearms assembled to surprise and confront a group of Aboriginal people encamped on the shores of Hardwicke Bay, and recover the sheep taken from Anstey’s shepherds (William Bruce Scott and John Brown) two days earlier. Nantariltarra (alias ‘Williamy’) was shot through the head and a girl drowned.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)