| Site Name | Stapleton Siding |
| Aboriginal Place Name | Perrmadjin |
| Language Group | Kungarakany, Warray |
| Present State/Territory | NT |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | SA |
| Police District | Howley, Yam Creek, Pine Creek |
| Latitude | -13.18 |
| Longitude | 131.043 |
| Date | Between 1 Jul 1895 and 30 Jul 1895 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 80 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Servant(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | |
| Motive | Opportunity |
| Weapons Used | Poison |
| Narrative | Joe McGuinness (1991, p 8) recalled: ‘The majority of the tribe (Kungarakany)... about one hundred people, became victims of poisoned damper... at a railway siding known as Stapleton... weed-killing powder... was supposedly mistaken for baking powder and added to the flour in preparing damper. Those who ate the poisoned damper became violently ill before their death’. This is one of at least three poisoning incidents suffered by the Kungarakan people. |
| Sources | McGuinness, 1991, p 8; Murgatroyd, 2001, p 6; Toohey, 1981, p 39; Kungarakan Culture and Education Association: https://kungarakan.org.au/language/ (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
