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Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Martin Diamond owned a store on Eureka. On December 3rd, 1854 he was shot by troopers inside his store and in front of his wife. Alpheus Boynton wrote in his diary, "The conduct of the soldiers generally through the whole has been anything but that of men, and some have brought upon themselves everlasting disgrace, for what true soldier would discharge his musket at an innocent and helpless female standing in front of her tent? and yet such was the case with some of the brutes clothed in uniform." Martin's wife, Anne applied for compensation from the government for property (to the value of £600 ) destroyed by the Military and Police at the time of the attack and stated in her application that her husband had been shot inside his store. Martin was born in Castle Clare, County Clare, Ireland and was only 23 years old when he died of gunshot wounds and was buried at the Ballaarat Old Cemetery. Giving evidence before the Goldfields Commission, Anne Diamond said, "My store was half in and half out of it [the Stockade] and I ran away, and I asked my husband to come, and he was coming after me, and he was shot and then they set fire to the tent." ....... " He then got three cuts of a sword and the stab of a bayonet." "After he was shot?" asked the Goldfields Commissioner. Anne replied, "Yes, they treated the bodies very badly."
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
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