AGAINST EACH OTHER. 
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offence. 
Larceny - - 
Assault with intent to murder 
Wilful murder - 
Sheep stealing - 
Cattle stealing - 
1842 1843 1844 
2 - 0-2 
2 - 0-0 
0- 3-1 
1 - 2-1 
0 - 1-2 
Resident Magistrate’s Court. 
Assault 
Breaking windows 
Intoxication 
Injuring park trees 
9 9 
0 - 3 
1 - 0 
3 - 0 
0 - 0 
3 
0 
0 
2 
11 
In the colony of New South Wales, the return of 
all the trials of the Aborigines, from 10th February, 
1837, to the 24th July, 1843, amounted to thirty- 
three cases, and implicated sixty-one individuals. 
The offences were chiefly murder and assault, or 
stealing sheep and cattle. In ten cases only, out of 
thirty-three, convictions took place, and nineteen in- 
dividuals were sentenced, viz., twelve to death, six to 
transportation for ten years, and one to a flogging.* 
Among the natives, but few crimes are committed 
against each other ; in fact, it would be somewhat 
difficult to define what their idea of crime would 
* For particulars vide Papers on the Aborigines of Australian 
Colonies, printed for the House of Commons, August 9th, 1844. 
