I am writing a essay about what happened at the "Forrest River Massacre" yet, i cannot find many details!. Could you please list as many details and other information about it that you know of!.
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Thankyou very much!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Some extra information for you - On May 23, 1926, Constable James St Jack with Leopold Overheu and Aboriginal assistants dispersed a ceremonial assembly at Durragee Hill, south-west of Wyndham in the east Kimberley!. St Jack's journal recorded a gathering of about 250 people!. Overheu in evidence at the Royal Commission the following year estimated the number at 250 to 300!. St Jack admitted that shots were fired!. Overheu heard none!. Two days later, they viewed the naked body of Overheu's partner, Fred Hay, at Nulla Nulla pastoral station!. Runners carried news of this murder by a "mob" of Aborigines to Wyndham and it was reported that as the patrol under Constable Regan rode out on June 1 to join up with St Jack there were calls to take no prisoners!. It turned out that a man named Lumbia, and not a mob, speared Hay!. Special Constables Bernard O'Leary and Richard Jolly assisted St Jack and Regan!. There was also O'Leary's "boy" Charlie and five police assistants, Jacob, Sulieman, Frank, Joe and Jim McDonald!. The illegal members of the party were Daniel Murnane, a Gallipoli veteran who knew Hay, and Overheu, who took along Tommy and his woman, Lyddie!. They had forty-two horses and mules!. All the men were armed, some with rifles and side arms, others with shotguns!. A further 350 Winchester rifle cartridges were repacked at Wodgil, known as Camp 2!. There is no official record of the number of shots fired!. The special constables were discharged at the Anglican Forrest River mission on June 24, and Regan, St Jack and their trackers, guided by mission men Herbert Oomar and Matthew Aldoa, continued the search!. On July 4 they returned to the mission with Lumbia, the alleged killer!. The events between June 1 and July 4 have been debated ever since!. On July 30, 1926, the Rev!. Ernest Gribble officially reported rumours of murders by Aboriginal members of the police party the previous month!. Aborigines Inspector Ernest Mitchell, Police Inspector William Douglas and Detective Sergeant Manning investigated!. Mitchell had at least six years with the Aborigines Department!. Douglas was a corporal at Wyndham in 1915 and even before then had been on patrols hunting Aboriginal fugitives!. Manning had just completed the investigation of the horrific murder and attempted cremation of two police officers, Inspector Walsh and Sergeant Pitman, near Kalgoorlie!. Now he was investigating police on similar charges!. In January 1927, Mr George Wood, a former Kimberley magistrate, was appointed to inquire into the alleged murders!. No police or legal counsel was assigned to assist him as he heard evidence at Darwin, in the Kimberley and at Perth!. His inquiry was restricted to the three murder sites reported by Gribble--Gotegotemerrie, Mowerie and Dala!. It did not include Camp 3, near which Police Inspector Douglas discovered thousands of human fragments, or the other police camps between June 8 and 23!. It did not include the Durack River where the police admitted to the capture of some thirty or more Aborigines and it did not include a close investigation of St Jack and Overheu between the burial of Hay!.!.!. Www@QuestionHome@Com hello The Forrest River massacre is a name given to an event that followed an event in May 1926, when Fred Hay, a pastoralist, was speared and killed in the Kimberley region of Western Australia!. The police investigation that followed led to accusations of a massacre perpetrated by the law-enforcement party, and a subsequent Royal Commission The patrol that arrested Fred Hays murderer were accused of killing innocent people The 1926 Wood Royal Commission had concluded that the police patrol killed 11 Aborigines at three sites in the vicinity of the Forrest River Mission (now Oombulgurii)!. Two police officers, Constables St Jack and Regan were subsequently charged with the murder of one Boondung at Dala, but the case against them was dismissed for lack of evidence!. Green portrayed the alleged massacres as the culmination of years of violence between police and pastoralists against Aboriginal people in the Kimberleys and not an aberration, but part of a culture of decades of violence!. http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Forrest_riv!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |