Benjamin Ewins
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Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
The depositions of witnesses against Benjamin Ewins, for his involvement in the violence of 30 November 1854. He was eventually tried on 19 January 1855 and acquitted. The recognizance of bail reproduced in the Eureka on Trial online exhibition at Public Record Office Victoria website, like the recognizance to give evidence, is a signed undertaking to make oneself available to the court.
Recognizance of Bail
On 2 December 1854 Benjamin Lewis of Ballarat in the Colony of Victoria. James Ewins of Ballarat in the said Colony of Victoria and James Bolster of Ballarat in the said Colony personally came before me the undersigned, one of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said Colony, and severally acknowledged themselves to owe to our Lady the Queen several sums following the said Benjamin Ewins the sum of two hundred pounds each, of good and lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of their several goods and chattels, lands and tenements respectively, to the use of our said Lady the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors, if he the said Benjamin Ewins fail in the condition endorsed. Taken and acknowledged the day and year first above mentioned at Ballarat in the said Colony before Charles Hackett J. P.
Following the recognizance are the depositions against Ewins taken in his presence and that of the local police magistrate Charles Hackett. The whole was wrapped in the cover sheet which is the last image in this sequence, and forwarded to the Melbourne court for the trial.[1]
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
Riot at Ballarat appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the late disturbance at Ballarat together with the evidence taken by the board laid upon the Council table by the Colonial Secretary, by Command of His Excellency the lieutenant Governor and ordered by the Council to be printed 21st November, 1854.
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