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Murder at Mount Lindesay – the deaths of Stapylton and Tuck.

On the morning of 31 May 1840 the surveying party run by Assistant Surveyor Stapylton was camped in the bush near Mount Lindesay in South East Queensland. The Assistant Surveyor was an English gentleman of 40 named Granville William Chetwynd Stapylton, youngest son of a very grand family, and grandson of the 4th Viscount Chetwynd.Continue reading “Murder at Mount Lindesay – the deaths of Stapylton and Tuck.”