POLICE COMMISSIONER'S COURT.
Monday May 26.
CHARLEY (a native, from Rivoli Bay, whose real name is unknown) was accused of stealing a quantity of sheep from the South Australian Company's station at that place. The prisoner had a wild and scared appearance. The adventures of the last few days must have been strange to him indeed. The fire-arms of the white men —the chain with which he was bound—the sea voyage— the buildings at the court and city—and now the justice-room, on every object of which he gazed with looks of wonder, the hand cuffs, too, annoyed him exceedingly, and he incessantly endeavoured to remove them. He several times spoke, and seemed most desirous of an answer, but his language was wholly unintelligible to Mr Moorhouse and the black policeman Jimmy, who addressed him in various dialects. The only word he seemed to comprehend was the English one of sheep. When brought to the bar he was alarmed, and evidently thought summary punishment was to be inflicted on him.
Mr William Lillycrap, the Company's superintendent, deposed that on the 16th instant he had been passing two nights at the German Creek station at Rivoli Bay, and went to the Bluff Ranges to seek for sheep, 165 of which had been taken by the blacks in the course of the ten days previous. Returning at about four in the afternoon, he saw the sheep in the yard, and several blacks, who had made a fire and had possession of them, the two shepherds, who were without arms, having abandoned the hut. Witness, who was accompanied by Mr Frank Frew and Captain Underwood, all well armed, rushed towards them, and the prisoner (who had been the worst in the fray, and who was struggling as they came up with the shepherd) was secured, but the rest of the party had escaped.
Remanded till Saturday.
South Australian Wednesday 28th May 1845
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