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William Henry Walsh of Degilbo continued his attacks on Walker's "inert, inexplicable, and inferior force" in the pages of The Moreton Bay Courier.

If a commission were appointed to enquire into the merits and demerits of this sadly managed corps, strange things might transpire; reasons would be ascertained . . . from whence those melon stealing, garden robbing troopers, obtain their authority or orders to attack, and violently beat, our servants for approaching too near their encampment? If the same regulations require them to take possession of all the "gins" on the establishment, where they may happen to be for the night? Whether such acts are likely to promote morality, health, or quietness in our tribes, and particularly what promise, or return, do they make the husbands, in this unrestrained intercourse with their wives?

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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One of the most relentless critics of the force, William Henry Walsh – superintendent of the mighty Degilbo run on the lower Burnett – watched the chaos Walker brought to Maryborough:

The town was full of blacks; a vessel lay at the boiling place, and which had been piloted up from the bay as usual by the natives. Three was the number, and these three Mr. Walker resolved to catch. The vessel was accordingly surrounded by the police, and two out of the three poor creatures caught; and, Sir, if even under the disguise of law, an atrocious act was done, this is it. Without rhyme or reason, these men were dragged to the lock-up, and there, upon an order of Mr. Walker's, confined "to the 27th of the month" – rather more than a week.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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