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1 Black Crows : An Episode of Old Van Diemen A. Werner , 1886 single work short story crime
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 22 no. 256 1886; (p. 40-41) Deep South : Stories from Tasmania 2012; (p. 11-20) Tale of a white man hung for killing a convict who shot an Aboriginal man, woman and child wantonly. Jack Hepburn, the only non-convict employee on a station on Tasmania's Emu Plains, warns a convict that he considers wanton shooting of Aborigines to be murder and will shoot the convict who does so. He does, and is tried, convicted and hung - the protection of Aborigines being no defence. Concludes with the parson's judgement that Hepburn can't enter heaven if he doesn't repent - and Hepburn's inability to do so. Plain, moving tale of manly principle. (PB)
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