Robert Pulley

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"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

Victoria Ballarat(M.)
(11 and 12 Vic., c. 42)
DEPOSITIONS OF WITNESSES
To Wit
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.
This deponent Maurice Frederick Ximenes on his oath saith as follows
I am Sub Inspector of Police at Ballarat.
On the 17th Instant I was
"Deposition of Maurice Frederick Ximenes, 27 October 1854, p.1, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90

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
"Deposition of Maurice Frederick Ximenes, 27 October 1854, p.2, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90
after the mob commenced throwing stones.

Maurice Frederick Ximenes Sub Inspector
Sworn before us at Ballarat this 27 October 1854
"Queen v Henry Westerby, 27 October 1854, p.2, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90

Queen v Henry Westerby alias Yorkey
Witnesses Edward Layton, Michael Murphy, Cornelius Sorrell, Robert Pulley – constable Gordon Evans – Insp Police John Dougherty – con: Maurice Frederick Ximenes – Sub-Insp