After the Faithful massacre, squatters and stockmen wanted vengeance. JC Bourke the mailman, wrote that soon afterwards a band of heavily armed men, led by Peter Snodgrass attacked a group of Indigenous people on the King River. (1)
(1) John Conway Bourke, Letters 1886 – 88 held at the Royal Historical Society Melbourne.
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