Aftermath
After he finished his schooling, Jim Barclay's son Jim (junior) went to work for Harry Smith, for many years, at Eaglevale. Harry Smith died aged about 86 in 1945. Sometime in the late 1970s Mortimer interviewed Jim Barclay Junior for his history of Wonnangatta station. Barclay's enigmatic comment on the murders was; " It was all a long time ago and both the murderers are long since dead. I can't see that anything can be gained now, it's all best forgotten."
The Wonnangatta station homestead was accidentally burnt down by careless bushwalkers in 1957. Some stockyards and the old cemetery survive. Today the area is part of the Alpine National Park, and is only accessible by 4 wheel drives, horse or on foot. The nearby mining towns of Talbotville and Grant have disappeared.
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