Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 147
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[Page 147]
1830
June 12th Mary Daniels, Denniston, Clyde
Richard Daniels Denniston, Clyde
Eliza Daniels Denniston, Clyde
August 24th James Hooper, Spring Hill parish Clyde.
Ths Anstey Coroner
Oatlands 21" Decr 1830
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It must be observed that at one time there were only three four Coroners in the Colony at the time, and previously to further appointments the Police and other Magistrates examined into the cases of murder, which were very numerous. #
Mr Jorgenson was then desired to collect accounts of many other depredations committed in the District from 1825 to the end of 1830. The cases stated in Mr Jorgenson's report would be found highly interesting, but the limits of this work, will merely allow me to supply a condensed narrative. The report however commences with an
[margin note]
# It will be perceived that after the Blacks had murdered the child Alicia Gough on the 11th October, they had the temerity to come down on 31st and murder Gough's wife. When Mrs Daniels with her little children were killed at Denniston, Mr Daniels and his men were working in the field about one-hundred yards in front of the house, with their musketts filed against a tree as was the custom of that time. The Blacks got through the back windows into the house, and after murdering the inmates stripped it of many valuable things.