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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 63, 16 March 1868, Page 68

Murder' by AusTRALfAN "Blacks.—-A letter'from a gehtlemah 7 hear'9ie ! Paroo in-. formß the Dubbo, Despatch, that .theblacks have 1 perpetrated a mbst' cbwatdiy ‘aiid brutal murderion the bntbr 'Barcooi ; It appears that a gentleman, named Fanning recently took up some country on theßarcoo—battbr known ;as Cobperis-Crebk/ the scene pf the melancholy.death of poor BichardO’Hdmßmkejahdhiabrbtherexplbrer, young Wills. Me*-went to visit' A sitation some sixty. milea : further .up, the river, and is" said to Haye camped on a plain: between the’Wild Hbrse 1 ' Greek' ;: anfl the Barpop. v His horse broke_away '/and carried'with it; the* saddle and a r Jvolrer, thus leaving Mr'Bahhihg obmplei»ly'a vid tim to the aborigines,;?*whp.:it JsJdtought.at once set upon and murdered him. His body : was : firandmuch r Hitherto the- Barcab j iblaoks/have been harmless enough, and DURiiifformantlis/at assign a pnpy*Mr Fanmugj tvhoi ww’yery Mind and generoiiß to^fbein/ I'''’/v-:/■ 1 '''’/v-: /■ /