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...ut, tied their hands together and killed them with swords. A few women and children were said to have escaped. The next day, the murderers came back looking for the younger men who had been away at the time. There they started incinerating the bodies of the dead aboriginals. The massacre was reported to Governor Sir George Gipps in Sydney. He told Magistrate Edward Danny Day to conduct a thorough investigation and to round up all of the suspects. Ten men were arrested and, following a series of trials, seven were convicted and hanged on December 18, 1838. The convictions and executions did not stop the cruelty to the aboriginals. Massacres occurred across New South Wales and other parts of Australia until well into the 20th century. But there were no more convictions as a code of silence grew up around the bad treatment of Aboriginals. In October 1998, in an event sponsored by the Uniting Church, around hundred...