| Site Name | Geike Gorge, West Kimberley (2) |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | Bunuba |
| Present State/Territory | WA |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | WA |
| Police District | Fitzroy Crossing - Kimberley |
| Latitude | -18.074 |
| Longitude | 125.721 |
| Date | Between 13 Dec 1894 and 26 Dec 1894 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | |
| Victims Killed | 17 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Police, Aboriginal Assistant(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Snider(s), Revolver(s), Winchester(s) |
| Narrative | In one of the police actions following the death of PC Richardson in November 1894, PC Richard Henry Pilmer went on patrol into Geikie Gorge on 13 December that year 'and according to his record of events, by 26 December had killed anywhere between seven and twenty people' (Owen 2016, p. 316). '[Inspector William] Lawrence's telegram to [Commissioner of Police George] Philips recorded a death toll of seventeen, four being prisoners who had escaped when PC Richardson was murdered' (Owen 2016, p 317). |
| Sources | WAPD, 'Capture of Wild Natives in the Oscar and Barrier Ranges', 26 January 1895, SROWA, Cons. 430, File 3548/1897. See telegram from Inspector Lawrence to Commissioner of Police, January 5, 1895; West Australian, January 8, 1895, p 2, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3071337/810682; Western Mail, January 12, 1895, p 13 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33111918; Owen, 2016, pp 315-316. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
