ENPages That Mention Lt [Lieutenant] Fulford
QSA17619 1855 Letter from Francis Nicoll to Commandant 11 April, Letters to the Government Resident by the Colonial Secretary, Sydney & Inspector-General Police on Native Police Matters, DR52067
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Mrs 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 Lt [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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than one body. Lt [Lieutenant] Fulford had started on the morning of the 15th, had run up the Yulbar [Yuleba] Creek, and we met upon the track on the 16th. On the 16th and 17th we followed the tracks through very dense scrubs, and broken country, and on the afternoon of the latter day, we separated into two parties to search a very scrubby and broken hill. My party followed the track of "Dicky", the black mentioned in Gillies' deposition, and which was not to be mistaken from the great size of his foot. We had scarcely penetrated half a mile, when I heard shots to my right, and pushing forward found a camp just deserted by "Dicky" and two gins. "Dicky's" red
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examining the ground, said that he had been carried off on a sheet of bark, so that I am unable to state positively whether he escaped or not, as he may have only feigned death. Our united parties were never able from that time to come on any track whatever, and as I had been suffering during the Patrol from fever and ague, Lt [Lieutenant] Fulford advised me to go home to the Barracks, leaving him to prosecute the search. I felt myself getting rapidly worse, for I had been unable to partake of food for four days and nights, and returned by Wallumbilla to see that all was quiet there but