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7 49/11,683 Thursday 29th. November 1849

Enclosure to Police Magistrates letters from Moreton Bay respecting an affray with Natives on the 28 Nov. 1849 No. 4

Last night about half past 10 OClock Constable Conroy called on me and reported to me that the Blacks had killed one of Mr Petries Bullocks Within the Town I told him Constable Conroy to call the other Constabtes immediately and go there and see what was the matter a short time after wards he returned and asked me if he might call on Lieutenant Cameron and ask him for assistance I told him he might but first call on Doctor Ballow and inform hin he then left me and I heard no of him till the following morning I had just gone to Bed when the Constable first called wearied after a several days duty together with the circumstance of my being in a delicate state of health for some

time [crossed out: for] past with an attack of cronic [sic] Rhumatism [sic] and been in the hands of my medical adviser who re= commended me not to expose my= self to the influence of the night air these are the reasons I did not get up agreeable to my habits upon all former occasions and See myself what was the matter

W Fitzpatrick Chief Constable