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| + | [[File:Carboni WEP page27-wiki.jpg|1000px|thumb|right|Walter E. Pidgeon, Illustration from ''The Eureka Stockade'' by Raffaello Carboni, Sunnybrook Press, 1942, offset print. <br>Art Gallery of Ballarat, purchased 1994.]] | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
| + | Also known as Thomas Farrell | ||
==Goldfields Involvement, 1854== | ==Goldfields Involvement, 1854== | ||
| + | [[File:1996.59 - Doudiet - Eureka Riot 17th Octobe-wikir.jpg|1000px|thumb|right|Charles A. Doudiet, '' watercolour on paper,'' 1854, watercolour, on paper. <br>Courtesy Art Gallery of Ballarat, purchased by the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery with the assistance of many donors, 1996.]] | ||
| + | On 18 November 1854, [[James Bentley]], Thomas Farrell and [[William Hance]] were convicted of the manslaughter of [[James Scobie]], a Scottish miner who had been found dead near James Bentley’s [[Eureka Hotel]] on 7 October 1854. Bentley, and his employees Farrell and Hance, had been tried and acquitted previously for this murder, but due to the outcry on the Ballarat Diggings, the insinuation of police corruption, and the subsequent riot and burning of the [[Eureka Hotel]] on 17 October 1854, there had been cause for a new trial. <ref>Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.</ref> | ||
| + | [[File:Sir Archibald Michie SLV H37475-37-lores.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Sir Archibald Michie. Photographer Batchelder & O'Neill. State Library of Victoria (H37475/37)]] | ||
| + | John Farrell was defended by [[Archibald Michie]]. | ||
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| + | [[Archibald Michie]] | ||
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:37, 7 January 2018
Contents
Background
Also known as Thomas Farrell
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
On 18 November 1854, James Bentley, Thomas Farrell and William Hance were convicted of the manslaughter of James Scobie, a Scottish miner who had been found dead near James Bentley’s Eureka Hotel on 7 October 1854. Bentley, and his employees Farrell and Hance, had been tried and acquitted previously for this murder, but due to the outcry on the Ballarat Diggings, the insinuation of police corruption, and the subsequent riot and burning of the Eureka Hotel on 17 October 1854, there had been cause for a new trial. [1]
John Farrell was defended by Archibald Michie.
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
