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The drawings were uncovered by accident. Curator and historian, Muran man Don Christophersen had been researching another prisoner when he found them at the South Australian Museum. Official records from the time portray Flannigan as a cowardly and cruel man, citing a dispute over a card game as his motive for Croker’s murder – but Christophersen believes there was something deeper at play. “It wasn’t the card game, the card game was just the spark. There was something underlying and we will probably never know what it was,” he says. Perhaps, for instance, Flannigan knew Croker’s reputation from working Wave Hill Station: that he had been involved in a retribution massacre of an unknown number of Aboriginal men in Limmen. Flannigan supplied no defence to the court during his trial, only registering a plea of “not guilty”. “I just feel honoured I can help him tell his story,” Christophersen says.

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