Between 11 August and 27 September 1859, Inspector Holroyd lead a police expedition in the country between Streaky Bay and Fowlers Bay searching for Shepherd’s killer. Miller and Ives, presumed dead, were found alive and well at Yalata. On 6 September he came across a party of sixty Aboriginal people and arrested three because they had European clothing in their possession.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)