| Site Name | Maryborough, Burnett PD |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Gubbi Gubbi? or Butchulla? |
| Present State/Territory | QLD |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | NSW |
| Police District | Maryborough |
| Latitude | -25.537 |
| Longitude | 152.725 |
| Date | 1 Nov 1854 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 6 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Settler(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Opportunity |
| Weapons Used | Poison, Poisoned Flour Laced with Strychnine |
| Narrative | Local historian J Lennon (cited in Bottoms, 2013, p 86) wrote, 'Late in November 1854…Aborigines ate flour laced with strychnine, among provisions stolen from the store of Henry Palmer. "There was a great whaling [sic] heard in the camp at Granville where they were sent every night," an old settler recorded, "and in the morning several of them were found dead, poisoned."’ |
| Sources | Bottoms 2013, p 86. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | * |
Colonial Frontier Massacres
in Australia, 1788-1930
