| Site Name | Kangaroo Creek, Clarence Pastoral District |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Gumbaynggnir |
| Colony | NSW |
| Present State/Territory | NSW |
| Police District | Grafton |
| Latitude | -29.932 |
| Longitude | 152.868 |
| Date | 29 Nov 1847 |
| Attack Time | day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victims Killed | 23 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M 23, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Attackers | Colonisers: Settler |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Transport | |
| Motive | Opportunity |
| Weapons Used | Poisoning |
| Narrative | In Feb 1848, Crown Lands Commissioner, Oliver Fry, was told by a stockman and an Aboriginal man at Grafton that squatter Thomas Coutts had poisoned 23 Aboriginal people by offering them flour laced with arsenic at his station at Kangaroo Creek. Fry set off for Kangaroo Creek Station to investigate. He found human remains but they were too decomposed for analysis. Coutts was arrested and brought to Sydney where he was bailed for 1,000 pounds, but was discharged in May for lack of evidence. |
| Sources | HRA I, xxvi: 392, 395; Lydon 1996: 151-175 (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
