| Site Name | Suttor and Belyando Rivers |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | Jangga |
| Present State/Territory | QLD |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | QLD |
| Police District | |
| Latitude | -21.476 |
| Longitude | 146.899 |
| Date | Between 1 Jan 1864 and 31 Jan 1864 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 14 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Native Police, Settler(s), Stockmen/Drover(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Snider(s), Pistol(s) |
| Narrative | Following the killing of two shepherds by Aboriginal people 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. |
| Sources | Maryborough 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) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
