Difference between revisions of "Scobie's Murder"
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:In any investigation which your Excellency may be pleased to institute into this matter, we feel confident that the conduct of the magistrates, and especially that of the coroner, will appear to your Excellency in its true light. | :In any investigation which your Excellency may be pleased to institute into this matter, we feel confident that the conduct of the magistrates, and especially that of the coroner, will appear to your Excellency in its true light. | ||
:We beg to subscribe ourselves your Excellency’s most devoted and obedient servants- | :We beg to subscribe ourselves your Excellency’s most devoted and obedient servants- | ||
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James R. Thomson Chairman | James R. Thomson Chairman | ||
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[[Peter Lalor]] Secretary | [[Peter Lalor]] Secretary | ||
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Thomas P. Wanliss Treasurer | Thomas P. Wanliss Treasurer | ||
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John Weightman Gray | John Weightman Gray | ||
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[[William Corkhill]] | [[William Corkhill]] | ||
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Archibald Carmichael<ref>http://wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/Eureka_Stockade:Petition_from_Ballarat_residents_re_Scobie_murder, sighted 07 May 2013.</ref> | Archibald Carmichael<ref>http://wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/Eureka_Stockade:Petition_from_Ballarat_residents_re_Scobie_murder, sighted 07 May 2013.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 22:27, 7 May 2013
Petition
- 27/10/54
- Ballarat 23rd Oct 1854
- To His Excellency Sir Charles Hotham K.C.B. Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Victoria
- We the committee for the prosecution of the investigation into the death of the late James Scobie, duly appointed at a public meeting, held here on the 17th inst do beg to forward to your Excellency the enclosed Petition.
- Your Excellency having anticipated the object of the Petition, we desiring as much as possible to allay the excitement at present existing on these diggings have thought it unnecessary and impolitic to have signatures attached to the Petition.
- We beg to tender our sincere thanks to your Excellency for the promptitude and vigour with which the case has been taken up by your Excellency’s Government, and which is rapidly restoring the confidence of this community in that due administration of the law, which is necessary to the preservation of society.
- In any investigation which your Excellency may be pleased to institute into this matter, we feel confident that the conduct of the magistrates, and especially that of the coroner, will appear to your Excellency in its true light.
- We beg to subscribe ourselves your Excellency’s most devoted and obedient servants-
James R. Thomson Chairman
Peter Lalor Secretary
Thomas P. Wanliss Treasurer
John Weightman Gray
Alexander McP Grant
Archibald Carmichael[1]