- Title
- Death of a hutkeeper near Geelong in 1840: A new investigative approach
- Creator
- Clark, Ian; Kicinski, Beth; Arthur, Teigan
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/71213
- Identifier
- vital:6707
- Identifier
- ISSN:1030-7710
- Abstract
- In February 1840, Assistant Protector Charles Sievwright investigated the murder of a hutkeeper- a ticket of leave man (a parolee restricted to a particular geographical location) named Michael 'Micky' Wilson - at an outlying hut on the Derwent Company's Weatherboard Station near Geelong. Four years later, murder was included in an official return sent from Superindent La Trobe's office of the number of European settlers killed by the Aborigibes in the Port Phillip district since its occupation. The death received little attention in historical studies until it was listed in a 1974 publication of a table of suspected deaths of Europeans at the hands of Aborigines. This case study highlights the often discontinuous chain of evidence underpinning historical interpretations and demonstrates how earlier conflation of cultural collisions and frontier violence - in explorations of the nature of murder in Victoria's early colonial history - may be overcome.
- Relation
- Victorian Historical Journal Vol. , no. 84 (2013), p. 1
- Rights
- Copyright Royal Historical Society of Victoria
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
- Subject
- 2103 Historical Studies
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