Difference between revisions of "Public Record Office Victoria VPRS 5527 Official Forms, Evidence and Depositions, October 1854"
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[[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0070-010-007.jpg|800px|thumb|centre|"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]] | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0070-010-007.jpg|800px|thumb|centre|"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]] | ||
− | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0070-010-008.jpg|800px|thumb|centre|"Deposition Henry Wright, p.1, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 70]] | + | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0070-010-008.jpg|800px|thumb|centre|"Deposition Henry Wright, p.1, 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 [illegible] 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]] | ||
− | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0070-010-009.jpg|800px|thumb|centre|"Deposition Henry Wright , p.2, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 70]] | + | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0070-010-009.jpg|800px|thumb|centre|"Deposition Henry Wright , p.2, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 70<br/> |
+ | The condition of the within written Recognizance is such, That whereas the said Albert Hurd was this day charged before the Justices within mentioned, for that he the said Albert Hurd as the seventeenth October A.D. 1854 at Ballarat in the aforesaid, did Riotously and Tumultuously with others assemble together and with force demolish pull down and destroy the House and Premises of James Francis Bentley known as the Eureka Hotel if therefore the said [[Albert Hurd]] will appear at the next criminal sessions to be holden at Melbourne in and for the Colony of Victoria, on the Fifteenth day of November and there surrender himself into the custody of the Keeper of the Common Gaol there, and plead to such information as many be filed against him for and in respect of the charge aforesaid, and take his trial upon the same, and not depart the said Court without leave, then the said Recognizance to be void, or else to stand in full force and virtue.]] | ||
[[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0070-010-010.jpg|800px|thumb|centre|"Deposition Thomas Wood, p.1, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 70]] | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0070-010-010.jpg|800px|thumb|centre|"Deposition Thomas Wood, p.1, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 70]] |