Stock owner John Brown was speared eight times in his left side and hutkeeper Joseph Lovelock was speared through the heart. Both men died of their wounds. Interpreter Clamor Schürmann obtained the Aboriginal version of events, namely that Mordalta speared Lovelock in order to rob the hut, and that Brown was speared by Ngarbi.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)