In response, Threlkeld successfully argued that all Aborigines under confinement should witness Executions such as Mickey’s: “Hitherto the Blacks under confinement had not been permitted to be present at the executions…But on my suggestion the Aborigines under confinement were allowed to behold the sentence carried into effect. Their pale visages, their trembling muscles, indicated the nervous excitement under which they laboured at the melancholy sight. Some who were about to be brought to trial urged me to speak for them to the Judge, and all requested that I would ask the Jailer not to hang them during my absence. To use the expression of M’Gill who was present with me, he said: “When the drop fell he thought he should have shed his skin (like a snake). Previously to this it was a matter of Joke amongst the Blacks their being sent to Jail, and I therefore submit that there should be a standing order in the jail for all Aborigines under confinement to be brought out to witness Executions”. (Threlkeld’s 5th report, 1835, in Blair, 2003, 39).