Site NameSuttor and Belyando Rivers
Aboriginal Place Name
Language GroupJangga
Present State/TerritoryQLD
Colony/State/Territory at the timeQLD
Police District
Latitude-21.687
Longitude147.44
DateBetween 1 Jan 1864 and 31 Jan 1864
Attack TimeDay
VictimsAboriginal People
Victim DescriptionsAboriginal
Victims Killed14
Victims Killed Notes
AttackersColonists
Attacker DescriptionsNative Police, Settler(s), Stockmen/Drover(s)
Attackers Killed0
Attackers Killed Notes
TransportHorse
MotiveReprisal
Weapons UsedSnider(s), Pistol(s)
NarrativeFollowing the Aboriginal killing of two shepherds at Hermitage Station recently leased by Mr Raymond and Cuthbert Featherstonhaugh, a native police detachment under the command of Sub-Inspector Reginald Uhr, and a party of volunteers, set off on a punitive expedition in search of the Aboriginal perpetrators. Ten days later the expedition came across the Jangga in the scrub near the junction of the Suttor and Belyando Rivers and shot 12 of them. According to historian Tim Bottoms, (2013) several women were also captured and Fetherstonhaugh and Uhr then shared their dinner surrounded by the corpses and the bound and roped women.
SourcesMaryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser, April 1, 1865, p 2http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article147933024; Fetherstonhaugh, 1917, pp 272-274; Richards, 2008, p 264; Bottoms, 2013, pp 109-110. (Sources PDF)
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