On 3 May 1849, James Beevor, ‘an old and much respected colonist’, was killed by an axe blow to the head while his partner, Mr Lodwick, was out tending their sheep. The hut was pillaged. A police party compised of Corporal Geharty and two constables set out from Port Lincoln the following day to search for the perpetrators.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)