Coniston massacre
Brooks was killed on or about 7 August 1928, and his body was partly buried in a rabbit hole. No eyewitnesses to the actual murder were ever identified, and there are conflicting accounts of the discovery of the body and subsequent events.
Coniston massacre
One of the few survivors was Gwoya Jungarai, who left the area after the massacre destroyed his family. A later picture of him as "One Pound Jimmy" became an iconic Australian postage stamp.