![]() ![]() Verdict (at the time): Two local Aborigines hanged. In April 1841, local Aborigines told a Richard Penny the massacre came after the Maria's passengers refused to hand over clothing for guiding them back to settled land. ![]() Governor George Gawler, SA's second governor, ordered Major Thomas O'Halloran to investigate and execute those he believed responsible. Items of the victims' clothing and the Maria's logbook were found in the possession of some local tribes. The groups were murdered, reportedly by local Aborigines, with four bodies found during the next year or so in different nearby areas. None were seen again alive, with two wedding rings found on two bodies later identified as belonging to two of the passengers. Blown off course, it foundered at Cape Jaffa on the reef and its crew and passengers reached land and began trekking back along the Coorong to Encounter Bay - being guided by local Aborigines. In 1840, the Maria, a 136-ton ship, headed to Hobart from Port Adelaide with 25 people on board. FROM bodies in barrels, to kidnappings in the Outback and sex in the suburbs, these are some of the crimes that shook South Australia. ![]()
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