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The condition of the within written Regcognance is such, That Whereas [[Albert Hurd]] was this day charged before me as Justice of the Peace within mentioned, for the said Albert Hurd on 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, the Dwelling House of one James Francis Bentley it therefore be the said [[Henry Wright]] 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., 854, and there give such evidence as he knoweth upon an information to be then and there preferred against the said Albert Hurd for the offence aforesaid, as the Jurors who shall pass upon the trial of the said Albert Hurd then the said Recognizance to be void or else stand in full force and virtue.]] | The condition of the within written Regcognance is such, That Whereas [[Albert Hurd]] was this day charged before me as Justice of the Peace within mentioned, for the said Albert Hurd on 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, the Dwelling House of one James Francis Bentley it therefore be the said [[Henry Wright]] 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., 854, and there give such evidence as he knoweth upon an information to be then and there preferred against the said Albert Hurd for the offence aforesaid, as the Jurors who shall pass upon the trial of the said Albert Hurd then the said Recognizance to be void or else stand in full force and virtue.]] | ||
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+ | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0070-010-007.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Deposition of Witnesses - [[Henry Wright]], [[Thomas Wood]], [[Thomas Conboy]], [[Frederick Levy]] and [[Maurice Linquist]] re Bentley Hotel, 27 October 1854, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 70 | ||
+ | Depositions of Witnesses<br/> | ||
+ | The examination of [[Henry Wright]], [[Thomas Wood]], [[Thomas Conboy]], [[Frederick Levy]] and [[Maurice Linquist]] of Ballarat in the said Colony, 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 [[Albert Hurd]] who is charged this day before us for that he the said [[Albert Hurd]] on the twentieth 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 Henry Wright on his oath saith as follows I am a "trooper," on the 17 Instant at the]] | ||
==Background== | ==Background== |
Revision as of 19:04, 21 May 2017
Contents
Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Henry Wright was a trooper at Ballarat in 1854.
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
For Forms, Evidence and Depositions in relation to the James Scobie trial click the following link Public Record Office Victoria VPRS 5527 Official Forms, Evidence and Depositions, October 1854]]
Further Reading
References