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There was a reprisal for this but no location is specified: "He [Jonathan Young] applied to the constables, and some of his neighbours joined him. The party came up with a body of the blacks, but the only one they got near was that notorious one, Gibber, who murdered Mr. Marks's boy some time ago, and also Mr. Yeomans's bullock driver. For this man they had a warrant, and they called to him repeatedly to stand, but he would not, and came in contact with Mr. Marshall, whom he knocked from his horse senseless to the ground with his nulla nulla; he was of course quickly despatched. The constable describes him as the most fierce looking savage he has ever seen, standing full six feet high; on one foot he had no toes, and on the other only two, of a peculiar form, like claws." (Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 9 May 1849, p2) Note that Richard Purvis Marshall was involved in this reprisal as a squatter, not an NMP officer, since this took place the year before he joined the NMP