| Site Name | Norman District |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | |
| Present State/Territory | QLD |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | QLD |
| Police District | Normanton |
| Latitude | -17.476 |
| Longitude | 141.154 |
| Date | Between 1 Feb 1883 and 15 Feb 1883 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 6 |
| Victims Killed Notes | men, women and children |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Native Police |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Snider(s) |
| Narrative | Following an Aboriginal attack on the town of Normanton during the 1883 wet season in which rations, clothes, cutlery, fowls, a carbine and ammunition 'and a dozen new white shirts were stolen', a detachment of native police led by Sub-Inspector Walter Jones set off in pursuit a few weeks later. Three days later, the detachment returned with some of the stolen property 'and satisfactory tidings that the mob had been too thoroughly dispersed to trouble Normanton again this season' (Brisbane Courier, 31 March 1883, p 6). |
| Sources | Brisbane Courier, 31 March 1883, p 6 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3416542 (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | * |
