Correspondence with the Colonial Secretary's Office

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M^rs Burns on no account to allow Blacks to enter the hut, when she replied that she and her husband "were" "old hands, and knew better" "Than to let any strange" "Blacks enter the door".

6. By the time I had seen the bodies decently interred, it was eleven o'clock, and, anxious to lose no time, I started on the track of the murderers. In the first ten miles the track was covered with articles which they had taken from the hut, and at one place where they had rested for a short time I found Burns' ration book.

7. It had been arranged between L^t [Lieutenant] Fulford and myself that we should form two parties in pursuit, in case the Blacks had left the scene of the murder in more than

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red shirt, which was identified by M^r Bennett, lay on the ground and two bags, completely filled with gowns, caps, vests, trousers, and other articles belonging to Burns and his wife, were beside it. In one bag we found some money, and a sheep muster of Burns'. I heard several shots in the direction in which "Dicky" had run, and the troopers returning said they had found it impossible to take him, and that he was shot. After placing the stolen articles on a pack horse, I proceeded to the spot where "Dicky" had fallen, but found nothing but a pool of blood, and the traces of his having been lying there. The policemen, on examining

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