When two Aboriginal men were given dinner for helping Rogers’ employees erect a hut, Kurrawampa and others took it away from them. The overseer, Mr Elliot, took the dinner back, causing Kurrawampa and others to threaten him with spears. William Stephenson fetched a gun. Kurrawampa threw a spear at Elliot. Stephenson shot Kurrawampa in the legs. Kurrawampa was cared for by the men at the station and made a full recovery.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)