On 1 December 1862, Harry Hammond was driving his cart near Nuccaleena when he noticed that a bag of meat missing from his dray. An Aboriginal man, Robert, and his wife, Mary Ann, were nearby and he accused them of stealing the meat. Robert said that he had not stolen it, upon which Hammond struck him on the head with the blunt end of his stock whip. Robert stumbled away, collapsed and died.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)