| Site Name | Wootong Vale |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | Wulluwurrung or Nundadjali |
| Present State/Territory | VIC |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | PPD |
| Police District | |
| Latitude | -37.533 |
| Longitude | 141.749 |
| Date | Between 1 Jan 1840 and 31 Dec 1840 |
| Attack Time | |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 17 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Pastoralist(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | |
| Motive | Opportunity |
| Weapons Used | Arsenic |
| Narrative | In a published talk presented in 1964 or 1965 historian E.R. Trangmar distinguished 5 massacres in Western Victoria. One of them is a brief mention of a poisoning with arsenic at Wooton Vale: 'Another case of murder occurred at Wootong Vale. The blacks asked for flour; they were given it but it was poisoned with arsenic. Seventeen died there.' (Trangmar, 1964, p 5) Though he doesn't cite the specific source for his statements, his list of sources for the presentation includes 8 published books, 5 diaries, and local residents descended from early colonists (Trangmar, 1964, p 1). He provides no date, so the year 1840 is estimated from it's being mentioned along with, and being close to, other massacres that occurred in 1840. |
| Sources | Trangmar, 1964, p 1, 5. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | * |
