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called "Shepherd Tommy" who lives with Mr Bulbi. Mr Turbayne followed a
a few minutes afterwards. While "Turbayne", "Jones" and "Shepherd Tommy" were
shooting the black's dogs at the camp. I went into the scrub to drive out
the puppies. after I had killed two I went further into the scrub to see if I could
see the blackfellows I had heard had been shot. I found three. I saw what I
took to be bullet wounds on one blackfellow. This was the first body I saw
and was about fourty yards from the camp. I did not examine the other two.
One ball seemed to have entered the top of the skull, another the chest, the other
was lower down the opposite side. He was lying on his back. One of the bodies
had been then burnt. They were all grey headed. One was very much so. Mr Hardie
went into the same scrub just before me, but we soon took different directions. Mr Hardie
returned from the scrub in about ten minutes. He directed a boy to take up their
tin pots. Two blackfellows and a gin followed us to the camp. The gin took up
an oppossums rug in which was a puppy when Mr Hardie said "come out
of that or you might get shot like the old men" or words to that effect. He
afterwards made her kill the puppy. The two blackfellows gathered all the
dead dogs into a heap and burnt them with some of the blackfellows
clothing. I heard Jones the
Storekeeper ask Mr Turbayne "if he had seen him", Mr Turbayne replied
"yes" and described to Jones the manner in which he lay. From the description
he gave of the manner in which he lay I took it to be the blackfellow who had
the appearance of having received the three balls I have before refered to.
Mr Turbayne said to Jones in my hearing, "I thought there had been four
shot but I have only seen three". I did not hear Jones make any reply. If he
made any reply it was it was out of my hearing. This was just before we came away.
We were out of the scrub at the time about half an hour. This was on Christmas day.
Lieut Wheeler and the Native troopers had left that morning before I went to the
scrub the second time. The dogs were Shot about midday.

[signed] Francis Henry Farrington

Taken and acknowledged upon oath
on the head Station Fassifern before me
on this Third day of January 1861
[signed] Henry Challinor J.P.