APPENDIX. 'i-')'3 



No. II. 



Bathurst, December 7, 183.j. 



Sir, 



I have the honour to state, that in conforming with the 

 instructions contained in the Colonial Secretary's letter of the 

 16th of October, together with your orders directing me to 

 proceed to the interior for the purpose of ascertaining the fate 

 of Mr. Cunningham, I proceeded with the party on the 24th 

 of October for Buree, which place I left on the 29th, accom- 

 panied by Sandy (the black native mentioned in my instruc- 

 tions.) On the 2nd November I fortunately met with two 

 blacks who knew the particulars of a white man having been 

 murdered on the Bogan, also the names and persons of the 

 perpetrators of the deed ; they likewise offered to accompany 

 the police to where the tribe to which the murderers be- 

 longed were encamped ; I accordingly took them as guides, 

 and on the evening of the 6th they informed me they could 

 see the smoke from fires of the Myall blacks — on the bor- 

 ders of a lake called Budda. On arriving on the banks of 

 the lake, we found a tribe encamped, consisting of upwards 

 of 40 men, women and children, all of whom we succeeded 

 in making prisoners, without any resistance on their part. 

 Having questioned them as to the murder of a white man, 

 they acknowledged to one having been killed on the Bogan 

 by four of their tribe, three of whom they delivered up, the 

 fourth they stated was absent on the Big river. On searching 

 the bags of the tribe we found a knife, a glove, and part of a 

 cigar case, which the three blacks acknowledged they had 

 taken from the white man, and which Muirhead* said he was 

 sure belonged to Mr. Cunningham. 



The three murderers, whose names are Wongadgery, Bo- 



* Muirhead was one of my men, who, with Baldock, was sent with this officer. 

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