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Four Aboriginal men set out to deliver a message from the Hodgson Downs station manager to Elsey Station, but split into pairs after a difference of opinion about which route to take. One pair encountered Elsey's manager, who accused them of spearing cattle and killed them when they denied it. After this, he found the message they were carrying, realised there were two more messengers, and endeavoured unsuccessfully to locate and kill them.
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Includes annotations by Francesca Merlan, who suggests that the perpetrator was apparently J. K. Little, station manager at Elsey 1915-16, just after the station had been purchased by the Thonemann family.
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Subjects:
- Roper River area, East Arnhem Land, Arnhem Land, Top End, Northern Territory,
- Longreach, Longreach - Barcaldine - Alpha area, Far North Queensland, Queensland,
- Elsey Station, Northern Territory,
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