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Native Mounted Police Camp
Fitzroy 15th. November 1859.

Sir,
I do myself the honor
to inform you that about
5 P.M. on the afternoon
of the 12th. inst., Mr. John
McCartney, came to this
Camp, and stated to one
that at about noon on that day
a man named "Parrant"
in the employ of J. A. Mc
Cartney Esq. of Glenmore
had been murdered by
the Blacks, and that he
himself he believed only
escaped a similar fate
by swimming the Fitzroy
River, having been employed
Shepherding at the same
place as the man Parrant

On receipt of this in
formation

Lieut Jon Murray
Commd 1st Division
Native Police