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having so long lived under the protection of British law, him he and his partner Mosquito, were both tried in the Supreme Court, and convicted of wilful murder. They could not plead the same excuse as the other Aborigines, that they did not understand English, and it would have been next a kin to madness to let them at large, they both suffered the extreme penalty of the law. These are the only two instances in this colony, that the Blacks have suffered legal punishment for the murder of a white man men. Even those who killed Captain Thomas and Mr Parker, when the Coroner's Inquest, as before stated, brought in the Blacks in custody guilty of murder, were permitted to escape, and were sent to one of the islands in the Straits. 

The numerous depositions on oath taken before the Police Magistrate were nearly all of the same tenor, and when all collected gave a voluminous accounts of daring outrages by the Blacks. It would fill many pages was were I to insert them all, two will suffice - that of Mr Robert Jones, and Thomas McNinn.
 

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