Original Documents on Aborigines and Law
1797-1840
Published by the Centre for Comparative Law History and Governance of Macquarie University, and State Records NSW
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Document 15
Col Sec to R Scott Esq. about Blacks killed by soldiers - with enclosures . R v Lowe: 6 September 1826[1]
[62]
Colonial Secretary's Office
6th Sept 1826
Sir,
His Excellency the Governor having in a letter to Capt Allman of the 20th ult o directed that Officer, in conjunction with yourself and other Magistrates therein named, to investigate the circumstances attending the killing of three native blacks by the Mounted Police, I am now instructed to inform you, that His Excellency desires this investigation may take place at your residence, as being a more centrial [sic?] situation than Newcastle. Captain Allman has been made acquainted with this arrangement, as well as Lieut. Lowe who is to be present.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your Obedient Servant
Alex M c Leay
Robt Scott Esq
J.P.
Hunter's River.
[63] A Macleay
6 Sept 1826
about three blacks killed by soldiers
No 15
Enclosures 1 & 2
Note
[1] For the trial of Lowe, see R. v. Lowe, 1827.