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+ | [[File:Carboni WEP page27-wiki.jpg|1000px|thumb|right|Walter E. Pidgeon, Illustration from ''The Eureka Stockade'' by Raffaello Carboni, Sunnybrook Press, 1942, offset print. <br>Art Gallery of Ballarat, purchased 1994.]] | ||
[[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-002.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Official form on blue paper - evidence - [[John Dougherty]], constable, 27 October 1854, p.1, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/> | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-002.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Official form on blue paper - evidence - [[John Dougherty]], constable, 27 October 1854, p.1, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/> | ||
Be it remembered, that on 27th day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty four from [[John Dougherty]] of Ballarat in the Colony of Victoria Constable of Police personally came before me one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Colony, and acknowledged himself to owe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen the sum of one hundred pounds, of good lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, in the use of our said Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors, if the said [[John Dougherty]] shall fail in the condition indorsed.<br/> | Be it remembered, that on 27th day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty four from [[John Dougherty]] of Ballarat in the Colony of Victoria Constable of Police personally came before me one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Colony, and acknowledged himself to owe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen the sum of one hundred pounds, of good lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, in the use of our said Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors, if the said [[John Dougherty]] shall fail in the condition indorsed.<br/> | ||
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+ | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-011.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Deposition of [[John Dougherty]], 27 October 1854, p.1, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/><br/> | ||
+ | And this Deponent [[John Dougherty]] on his oath saith I am Constable On this day 17 October Inst. I was on duty at the [[Eureka Hotel]], at this time the house was burned. I saw the prisoner Westerby there, acting as a Ring leader to the mob in destroying the Hotel, he made answer to a request made by Mr Rede Resident Commissioner, that he was as good an Englishman as him, that they had looked long enough to the Courts for satisfaction]] | ||
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+ | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-012.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Deposition of [[John Dougherty]], 27 October 1854, p.2, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/><br/> | ||
+ | that they did not get it but now that they would take it. He proposed pulling down the House and called to those who were of the same opinion to hold up their hands he then advanced towards the Hotel and commenced pulling off the Boards.<br/> | ||
+ | By per Counsel. I was there, he was standing along side the prisoner. I saw Prisoner pull the Boards off the House. I distinctly swear that prisoner did]] | ||
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+ | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-013.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Deposition of [[John Dougherty]], 27 October 1854, p.3, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/><br/> | ||
+ | pull the Boards off the House – I did not see him strike the House. I saw him pulling the boards off the House and heard him say that the House should belong to the Diggers. Mr Rede was near to prisoner, at this time.<br/> | ||
+ | [[John Dougherty]]<br/> | ||
+ | Sworn before us at Ballarat this 27 October 1854]] | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
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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]]. <ref> ''Report of the Board appointed to Enquire into Circumstances Connected with the Late Disturbance at Ballarat'', John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 21 November 1854.</ref> | 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]]. <ref> ''Report of the Board appointed to Enquire into Circumstances Connected with the Late Disturbance at Ballarat'', John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 21 November 1854.</ref> | ||
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+ | Constable John Dogherty [sic] on his oath saith: | ||
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+ | I was at Eureka on the morning of the 3rd instant. I saw prisoner Tuohey run ... he had a double barrelled gun in his hand. | ||
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+ | John Dougherty | ||
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+ | Sworn before me | ||
+ | At Ballarat this 8th December 1854 | ||
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+ | E. Sturt PM<ref>VPRS 5527 Unit 2, Item 5, p. 48</ref> | ||
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John Dougherty signed the [[Benden Hassell]] petition for compensation. | John Dougherty signed the [[Benden Hassell]] petition for compensation. |
Latest revision as of 17:09, 4 May 2018
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]
Constable John Dogherty [sic] on his oath saith:
I was at Eureka on the morning of the 3rd instant. I saw prisoner Tuohey run ... he had a double barrelled gun in his hand.
John Dougherty
Sworn before me At Ballarat this 8th December 1854
E. Sturt PM[2]
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.