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Issue Details: First known date: 1841... 1841 Deposition
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At head of column: 'Information of Wylie, taken before me, Peter Belches, one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the Colony of Western Australia, taken according to the Act of Vict. No. 8, this ninth day of July, 1841.'

This almost full page item, contains the depositions of Edward John Eyre and Wylie, detailing the events surrounding the death of John Baxter, Overseer of the expedition, and the disappearance of two Aboriginal men, Joey and Yarry, associated with Edward Eyre's exploration journey from Adelaide to King George Sound in Western Australia in 1841.

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2 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article643045 Depositionsmall AustLit logo The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal
4 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32190452 Depositionsmall AustLit logo Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser
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