Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 243
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When Captain Bartholomew Boyle Thomas and Mr Parker were in 1831 murdered by some hostile Aborigines near Port Sorell, the Lieutenant Governor did no think himself justified in sending the misguided creatures to trial for the offence, although the verdict of the jury on the inquest sufficiently identified the actual perpetrators. I may here add that when nine convicts at [indecipherable] New South Wales wantonly and barbarously destroyed a whole tribe, they were all tried for the offence and executed.
I feel little inclination to form contrasts at the expense of any British Governor, but as I have in my whole narrative preserved the utmost impartiality I cannot refrain from some remarks on a transaction which recently occurred in South Australia. I find in the Murray's Äustral-Asiatic Review's of the 22nd September last an account of two Aborigines being executed and two shot by a party under Major Halloran the Superintendent of Police in South Australia. Mr Hall the Colonial Secretary immediately after published a statement of the facts connected with the lamentable occurrence, which