Mathilda
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28 Oct 1854 — Yorke PeninsulaEdward Gibbon (aged around twenty years) was charged at the Police Court in Adelaide with raping ten-year-old, Purt Purrie. The case relied on Aboriginal evidence and was eventually dismissed.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)Sources- 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
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Mathilda
28 Oct 1854Source: 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