John Rodan
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Background
John Rodan was 34 years old in 1854.[1]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Trooper John White said he saw John Rodan in the Eureka Stockade on 03 December 1854. There was a passage out on the left and a dray on the right. The prisoner was under the dray. Many arms lying about. Rodan had been slightly wounded in the left shoulder.[2]
In Rodan's defence George Anderson, who had lived two years near the Eureka, deposed that Rodan was his mate, and was in the tent at ten o'clock on Saturday night; that they ordered Rodan out saying, "If you don't come we will shoot you." Witness had concealed himself between the tent and the lining, or he is sure he also would have been compelled to go. Had incurred odium by not attending the meetings. Had been attacked on Friday night by three men, knocked down and called a "trap."[3]
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
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