Biddle and Brown, a party of soldiers was sent over to try and capture the aggressors.

In one of their attempts a native guide was procured from the Eastern tribe, who promised to conduct them to where the murderers were.

The party consisting of the military and their officer, the police, a settler, and the missionary, in all twelve or fourteen persons, set off towards Coffin's Bay, following as they supposed upon the track of the murders.

Upon reaching the coast some natives were seen fishing in the water, and the party was at once spread out in a kind of semicircle, among the scrub, to close upon and capture them; the officer, missionary, and guide, being stationed near the centre.

As the party advanced nearer, the guide saw that he was mistaken in the group before him, and that they were not the guilty parties, but friends.