Difference between revisions of "John Dougherty"
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[[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-002v.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Official form on blue paper - evidence - [[John Dougherty]], constable, 27 October 1854, p.2, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/> | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-002v.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Official form on blue paper - evidence - [[John Dougherty]], constable, 27 October 1854, p.2, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/> | ||
The condition of the within written Recognizance is such, That Whereas Henry Westerby alias Yorky this day charged before me a Justice of the Peace within mentioned, for that he the said [[Henry Westerby]] alias Yorkie was the Seventeenth day of October 1854 at Ballarat in the Colony aforesaid, did with other persons riotously and tumultuously assemble, and did then and there, feloniously burn, pull down and destroy the dwelling of one James Bentley it therefore be the said John Dougherty shall appear at the Supreme Court of Criminal Sessions to be holden at Melbourne in and for the Colony of Victoria, on the fifteenth day of November A.D., 1854, and there give such evidence as he knoweth upon an information to be then and there preferred against the said [[Henry Westerby]] alias Yorkey for the offence aforesaid, as the Jurors who shall pass upon the trial of the said [[Henry Westerby]] alias Yorkey then the said Recognizance to be void or else stand in full force and virtue.]] | The condition of the within written Recognizance is such, That Whereas Henry Westerby alias Yorky this day charged before me a Justice of the Peace within mentioned, for that he the said [[Henry Westerby]] alias Yorkie was the Seventeenth day of October 1854 at Ballarat in the Colony aforesaid, did with other persons riotously and tumultuously assemble, and did then and there, feloniously burn, pull down and destroy the dwelling of one James Bentley it therefore be the said John Dougherty shall appear at the Supreme Court of Criminal Sessions to be holden at Melbourne in and for the Colony of Victoria, on the fifteenth day of November A.D., 1854, and there give such evidence as he knoweth upon an information to be then and there preferred against the said [[Henry Westerby]] alias Yorkey for the offence aforesaid, as the Jurors who shall pass upon the trial of the said [[Henry Westerby]] alias Yorkey then the said Recognizance to be void or else stand in full force and virtue.]] | ||
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+ | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-008.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Depositions of witnesses [[Maurice Ximenes]], [[John Dougherty]], [[Gordon Evans]], [[Robert Tulley]], [[Cornelius Sorrell]], [[Michael Murphy]], and [[Edward Layton]] re [[Henry Westerby]], 27 October 1854, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/><br/> | ||
+ | Victoria Ballarat(M.)<br/> | ||
+ | (11 and 12 Vic., c. 42)<br/> | ||
+ | DEPOSITIONS OF WITNESSES<br/> | ||
+ | To Wit<br/> | ||
+ | The Examination of [[Maurice Frederick Ximenes]], [[John Dougherty]], [[Gordon Evans]], [[Robert Pulley]], [[Cornelius Sorrell]], [[Michael Murphy]] and [[Edward Layton]] of Ballarat in the said Colony of Victoria taken on oath, this 27th day of October, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four at Ballarat in the Colony aforesaid, before the undersigned two of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said Colony, in the presence and hearing of [[Henry Westerby]] alias Yorkey Who is charged this day before us for that he the said [[Henry Westerby]] alias Yorkey, on the Seventeenth day of October 1854 at Ballarat in the Colony of Victoria aforesaid, together with other persons did tumultuously and Riotously assemble, and did then and there burn pull down and destroy the dwelling House of one James Francis Bentley.<br/> | ||
+ | This deponent Maurice Frederick Ximenes on his oath saith as follows<br/> | ||
+ | I am Sub Inspector of Police at Ballarat.<br/> | ||
+ | On the 17th Instant I was]] | ||
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+ | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-009.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Deposition of Maurice Frederick Ximenes, 27 October 1854, p.1, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/><br/> | ||
+ | ordered to proceed, to Bentley’s Hotel a meeting had taken place in the Neighbourhood a crowd assembled in the front of the Hotel They were shooting and shouting, Prisoner [[Henry Westerby]] advanced to the front of the House by himself he struck the house with his clenched hand. He addressed the people, and proposed that Bentley’s House should belong to the Diggers – immediately]] | ||
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+ | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-010.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Deposition of Maurice Frederick Ximenes, 27 October 1854, p.2, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/> | ||
+ | after the mob commenced throwing stones.<br/><br/> | ||
+ | Maurice Frederick Ximenes Sub Inspector<br/> | ||
+ | Sworn before us at Ballarat this 27 October 1854]] | ||
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==Background== | ==Background== |
Revision as of 19:09, 5 August 2017
Contents
Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
John Constable was a Police constable.
Dougherty was a witness examined during the report of the Board appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the riot at Ballarat, and the burning of James Bentley's Eureka Hotel. [1]
John Dougherty signed the Benden Hassell petition for compensation.
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
- ↑ Report of the Board appointed to Enquire into Circumstances Connected with the Late Disturbance at Ballarat, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 21 November 1854.