Difference between revisions of "John Dougherty"
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− | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-002v.jpg|800px|thumb| | + | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-002v.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Official form on blue paper - evidence - [[John Dougherty]], constable, 27 October 1854, p.2, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/> |
The condition of the within written Recognizance is such, That Whereas Henry Westerby alias Yorky this day charged before me a Justice of the Peace within mentioned, for that he the said [[Henry Westerby]] alias Yorkie was the Seventeenth day of October 1854 at Ballarat in the Colony aforesaid, did with other persons riotously and tumultuously assemble, and did then and there, feloniously burn, pull down and destroy the dwelling of one James Bentley it therefore be the said John Dougherty shall appear at the Supreme Court of Criminal Sessions to be holden at Melbourne in and for the Colony of Victoria, on the fifteenth day of November A.D., 1854, and there give such evidence as he knoweth upon an information to be then and there preferred against the said [[Henry Westerby]] alias Yorkey for the offence aforesaid, as the Jurors who shall pass upon the trial of the said [[Henry Westerby]] alias Yorkey then the said Recognizance to be void or else stand in full force and virtue.]] | The condition of the within written Recognizance is such, That Whereas Henry Westerby alias Yorky this day charged before me a Justice of the Peace within mentioned, for that he the said [[Henry Westerby]] alias Yorkie was the Seventeenth day of October 1854 at Ballarat in the Colony aforesaid, did with other persons riotously and tumultuously assemble, and did then and there, feloniously burn, pull down and destroy the dwelling of one James Bentley it therefore be the said John Dougherty shall appear at the Supreme Court of Criminal Sessions to be holden at Melbourne in and for the Colony of Victoria, on the fifteenth day of November A.D., 1854, and there give such evidence as he knoweth upon an information to be then and there preferred against the said [[Henry Westerby]] alias Yorkey for the offence aforesaid, as the Jurors who shall pass upon the trial of the said [[Henry Westerby]] alias Yorkey then the said Recognizance to be void or else stand in full force and virtue.]] | ||
Revision as of 18:47, 5 August 2017
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]
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.
References
- ↑ Report of the Board appointed to Enquire into Circumstances Connected with the Late Disturbance at Ballarat, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 21 November 1854.