Scobie's Murder

Petition

27/10/54

Ballarat 23rd Oct 1854

To His Excellency Sir Charles Hotham K.C.B. Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Victoria

We the committee for the prosecution of the investigation into the death of the late James Scobie, duly appointed at a public meeting, held here on the 17th inst do beg to forward to your Excellency the enclosed Petition.

Your Excellency having anticipated the object of the Petition, we desiring as much as possible to allay the excitement at present existing on these diggings have thought it unnecessary and impolitic to have signatures attached to the Petition.

We beg to tender our sincere thanks to your Excellency for the promptitude and vigour with which the case has been taken up by your Excellency’s Government, and which is rapidly restoring the confidence of this community in that due administration of the law, which is necessary to the preservation of society.

In any investigation which your Excellency may be pleased to institute into this matter, we feel confident that the conduct of the magistrates, and especially that of the coroner, will appear to your Excellency in its true light.

We beg to subscribe ourselves your Excellency’s most devoted and obedient servants-

James R. Thomson Chairman Peter Lalor Secretary Thomas P. Wanliss Treasurer John Weightman Gray William Corkhill Alexander McP Grant Archibald Carmichael

Also See

James Scobie

James Thomson Peter Lalor Thomas Wanliss John Gray William Corkhill Alexander Grant Archibald Carmichael

Other Sites

http://wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/Eureka_Stockade:Petition_from_Ballarat_residents_re_Scobie_murder

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Scobie's Grave, Ballaarat Old Cemetery, University of Ballarat Historical Collection