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the massacar happened
12 stockmen rode up to the station. they were armed with pistols muskets and swords. by nightfall, all 28 aboriginal people has been massacred in an atrocity that became a turning point in autralian hisoty. -
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Myall Creek Massacre History
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investagtion begun
An investigation arose to identifie the murders -
Eleven suspects were identifided
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john flemming was never captured
John Fleming, the leader of the massacre, was never captured, and was allegedly responsible for further massacres throughout the Liverpool Plains and New England regions -
First Frial was undertaken
The trail was held for the murder of daddy an aborginoal elder and 4 other aboriganals.No-one apart from the killers had witnessed the massacre and they had removed all bodies before they could be recovered as evidence. The accused pleaded not guilty. -
Second Trial - seven of the orginal 12 were acused
The trial was help for the murder of little charlie an aborginal boy and 22 other aboriganals. only seven of the original 12 men and focused on the killing of just one Aboriginal child. Eventually the jury found them guilty of the murder of the child. -
Hanging of 7 white men
the seven stockmen were hanged. For the first time in Australian history white men were punished for murder of Aboriginal people Charles Kilmeister, James Oates, Edward Foley, John Russell, John Johnstone, William Hawkins, and James Parry were the men hung -
John Blake, comittted suicide
John Blake, one of the four men set free at the first trial and not subsequently charged, committed suicide by cutting his throat in 1852.His descendants say that they like to think he did so out of a guilty conscience. -
Shire that was built as a reminder of what happened was unvaled
