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  • ...e few spectators, some of whom doubtless had their own grudges against the law, while others merely felt involuntary compassion for a man helpless and fal ...upon his trial before [[Redmond Barry|Mr Justice Barry]] at the Melbourne Criminal Court. The trial, which created intense interest, was not a very long one,
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  • ...ns they have most fully expiated. In their case the supreme majesty of the law has been vindicated. The dignity of the authority that they defied has been
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  • ...of time, energy, or even life will be allowed to stand in the way when the law has to be upheld by the Executive. To the wisdom of such a policy let this
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  • ...he offence which you are now charged with, but also for the long series of criminal acts which you have committed during the last eighteen months, that I do no Judge Barry: Your statement involves wicked and criminal reflection of untruth upon the witnesses who have given evidence.
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  • ...Council met and dealt with the Ned Kelly’s case. It was decided that the law should take its course, and the date for Ned Kelly’s execution was fixed ...e of its prominent officers exhibiting an active sympathy with a notorious criminal, the constituents of Mr David Gaunson are not so compliant. A requisition i
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  • The case was brought under the 109th section of the Criminal Law and Practice Statute.
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  • ...nd the danger of allowing any part of the colony to become the refuge of a criminal population, it is desirable that the Ministry should take into immediate co
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  • ...s office on one occasion when the fellow was talking about giving colonial law to certain members of the police force.  
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  • ...ay of suspending habeas corpus, other machinery exists. Under the Criminal Law and Practice Act, sec. 276, accessories after the fact to murder are punish
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  • ..., [[Wild Wright|Wright]], and [[Anne Kelly and Alex Gunn|Gun]], the son in law, disappeared. Making up to one of the Kelly girls, he suddenly said, “If
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  • ...f he did not apologise. The apology was forthcoming. Is the majesty of the law of less account than the majesty of a king? Now to the second case. We are
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  • ...r alive, it was naturally thought they would speedily be captured, and the law avenged; but although nearly four month have elapsed, the flower of the Vic ...ture men, who have been guilty of robbery and murder, and who have set the law at defiance. Nearly 300 tried, trained men, with the Government at their ba
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  • ...rd to look upon a mere frontier line as so separating jurisdictions that a criminal hunted out of one colony should he tempted to find harbour in another. The
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  • ...is a great deal better that the criminal class should be in terror of the law than that decent citizens should live in fear of the criminals.
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  • ...is is pretty much the state of affairs just 'now', in Melbourne, where the law-breaker appears to have a tolerably clear coast. And it must not be forgott ...or. We are aware, of course, that secrecy on the part of the agents of the law is to a great extent ne cessary, but up to a certain point information migh
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  • ...eward in the way of promotion , and it will expect also that this time the law will be carried out, and that the ruffians who were not left dead on the fi
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  • ...ever concealed the fact that he would rather die in any way than allow the law to take its course. During the afternoon the prisoner’s condition improve ...o Melbourne on a remand warrant requiring him to appear before the Central Criminal Court at its sitting commencing on the 5 th prox. It is very doubtful howev
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  • ...s the commencement of all the Kelly troubles, which have since stained the criminal annals of the colony, and brought death, misery, and sorrow into a number o ...some judge or judges of the Supreme Court changed the venue to the Central Criminal Court, Melbourne, which course will probably be adopted for a trial.
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  • ...the only town in that district in which the Supreme Court sits, but as the criminal assizes do not commence there until October, it is probable that an applica
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  • ...ges, which are more formidable than has been ever before brought against a criminal in this colony.  It is proposed to assign counsel for the defence, in case ...bosom friend, rather than fall into the hands of the administrators of the law.  Jonathan and David, Damon and Pythias, and others celebrated for their f
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  • ...that it would be necessary, in order to comply with the law, to remand the criminal to Beechworth, which is in the bailiwick in which the murders which he comm
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  • ...d in this respect, and beyond doubt you have rendered yourself liable to a criminal information for printing matter injurious to the prisoner, and well calcula ...er objection to the most stringent precautions being taken to see that the law is observed.
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  • ...we say once more, advisedly, that " it is notorious that the habitual criminal has a dogged hatred of the police, and a morbid vanity as regards himself, ...his client. Of course, KELLY is entitled to all the ad- vantages which the law allows him. It is for the Crown to prove the charges against him in proper
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  • ...to order that such person shall be tried for such offences at the Central Criminal Court, and the trial shall be held there accordingly. ...showed that it was advisable that the trial should be held in the Central Criminal Court and not at Beechworth.  He read the affidavit, which was as follows:
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  • ...was made to his Honour Mr Justice Barry, who was presiding in the Central Criminal Court yesterday, that the [[Ned Kellys Trial|trial]] of Edward Kelly, who w In the central Criminal Court yesterday, before his honour Mr Justice Barry.
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  • ...tted on two charges of murder, until the next sittings of the said Central Criminal Court. ...ared to act as circumstances may warrant. - B C Harriman, Secretary to the Law Department.’
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  • ...ve stated, and whether Mr Molesworth or any other experienced and talented criminal barrister is retained the fee is little enough.  I beg to request the earl ...sel, with 5s. for clerk’s fee.  I will forward your letter to the Crown Law offices, who will decide as to the amount of remuneration, if any, beyond w
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  • '''LAW NOTICES (This Day)''' Central Criminal Court-The Queen v. '''Edward Kelly'''.
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  • At a special sitting of the Central Criminal Court, commenced yesterday before his Honor Mr Justice Barry, '''Edward Kel ...avours to make himself acquainted with the facts of the case, and also the law thereof, and before he could become thoroughly seized of it he would requir
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  • ...ath. There is always a fear that justice may miscarry through a blunder at law, or through the perverseness of a juryman, and, therefore, it is satisfacto ...nued before his Honour Sir Redmond Barry yesterday morning, at the Central Criminal Court. The court was again crowded, as were also the precincts of the build
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  • ...tection―that of the ordinary citizen, and that of being ministers of the law, executive officers of the administration of the peace of the country. Whet ...e on all sides of the Court―at the common law, at the equity, and at the criminal side, with some few exceptions. As, for instance, in treason there must be
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  • ...ffers a chance of impeding or defeating its operations.  But large as the criminal class in Melbourne may be, it could not have furnished one-fourth of those ...re, the action taken cannot have any effect in arresting the course of the law.  In passing sentence on the prisoner, the learned judge who presided at t
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  • ...olicitors ends. Respectable members of the profession who have to defend a criminal are satisfied when they have obtained for their client a fair trial, but bu ...o be the leading characteristics of the criminal who has been condemned by law, and certainly these would seem to be the leading features of the offender
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  • ...uld naturally go on to disband the police, for it would have said that any criminal against whom a warrant is issued is at liberty to shoot his would- be appre ...d that this was not a case in which petitions could have any effect.  The law had to be carried out, and if it were not, those who had the responsibility
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  • 'Mr David Gaunson, a chief expounder of law in Parliament, and a prominent leader at the justice seats in our courts, p ...the promoters of the meeting should certainly have been undertaken by the law abiding citizens of Melbourne; but not having been done, it remains for eve
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  • ...the jury having found him guilty he must suffer the extreme penalty of the law. He considered that the people who were getting up this agitation were by n ...ol. Precisely the same course will be followed as in the case of any other criminal. ==
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  • ...of the Executive Council, who upon calm deliberation had decided that the law should take its course, His Excellency must decline to receive any deputati ...in the demonstration, that no mortal power could intervene to prevent the criminal meeting the fate he so richly deserved.
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  • ...rdinary circumstances no one, whilst desirous of seeing the justice of the law maintained, would refuse their pity to those who may be innocently involved
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  • ...r vicious youths, who had not at that time come within the clutches of the law, enrolled themselves amongst their admirers. The long continued immunity th Those who are inclined to regard the criminal career of these miserable creatures with a feeling almost amounting to envy
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  • ...in the minds of unthinking, and to still further deprave the minds of the criminal classes amongst us.
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  • .... If there be a question whether the facts proved constitute an offence in law, or whether evidence admitted at the tail was lightly admitted, the judge m ...ase of almost every conviction for a serious offence. The secretary to the Law department, in his last report, says -
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  • ...the North- Eastern district. He thought there might be an extension of the law under which owners of premises could be prosecuted for harbouring felons, & Mr Sadleir said that he believed the settlement of the criminal classes to extend all along the Dividing Ranges to the Omeo, and even to Ne
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  • ...drill, gymnastic and swimming exercises and should be educated in criminal law. Instead of being rewarded with money for special services members of the f
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  • ...r business from the adjacent colonies, Europe , and America . Formerly the criminal class consisted of old hands from Tasmania and New South Wales , from whom ...e sub inspectors should perform outdoor duty in important cases, prosecute criminal cases at the police courts, supervise the out door duty of the detectives g
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  • ...as, indeed, no more right to degrade a civil servant than it has to send a criminal to Pentridge without reference to judge and jury. ...il. In each and every instance the accused person is guaranteed a trial by law, and justice is wronged if that trial is sot aside by personal authority. S
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  • At this stage a criminal photograph book kept in the Detective office was produced, in order to sett ...ty refused to prosecute the matter would probably be referred to the Crown law officers.
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  • ...the vicious system pursued by the detectives, the impunity with which the law was evaded by low-class publicans, the wide-spread ramifications of public ...hroughout the city and its environs devoted to immoral purposes, which the law seems almost powerless to reach.
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  • ...e present number of police for one or two years to come-until not only the criminal, but the large lawless, portion of the population are put down, and confide ...caution is used by the police, is frequently sufficient to indicate to the criminal class the source of the information, and in this Kelly case would probably
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  • ...ted the capture of a desperate criminal, whose prolonged resistance to the law and successful evasion of justice, for a period extending over many months,
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  • ...to connection with police offences, and deal with cases under the criminal law, and others?— Yes.
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  • ...good number of the criminal class. It was also a resort for persons of the criminal class coming from other places. ...n id="rc12572">[[#rc12572|12572]]</span> Were those persons friends of the criminal classes about Greta?— Yes.
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  • ...then he got from me all the information I possessed, and a portrait of the criminal and other information, and having done that I returned to [[Gippsland|Gipps ...e of the district was responsible for the detection of crime and arrest of criminal”, he would have left it to Hr. Kabat?— Yes.
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  • 14294 That is the duty, by law, of the inspecting superintendent?— Yes. ...rivate information sent to the Chief Commissioner or the department that a criminal is in his district, and he is not made amenable to justice, is it not the d
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  • ...e he should take to bring the parties charged with any offence against the law to justice?— In any ordinary district I would communicate to the officer ...I think if you are anxious to capture any person guilty of a breech of the law, the information that would be necessary to convey to any officer it would
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  • ...Mr. Hare should have communicated it to him. Was I to retain him until his criminal instincts were proved. I may add to what I have said that I remonstrated al
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  • ...court in the usual way, and went through all the forms of the law, and the law was carried out; and that was the last collecting of license fees at Ballar
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  • ...were acting foolishly, but did not think their actions were the result of criminal sympathy with the outlaws. ...st anyone but Mr. and Mrs. Stanistreet and my wife, sister, and brother-in-law.
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  • ...etraced their steps to their homes, carrying with them the fruits of their criminal enterprise. Cattle stealers across the border pursued a similar system, dri
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  • '''THE FIRST CRIMINAL COURT''' ...en shot down at sight. Britishers, however, are not much given to take the law in their own hands.
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  • ..., [[#teen|Teenage years and Harry Power]] , [[#first|First run in with the law]] , [[#f|1st Fitzpatrick Incident]] , [[#fitz|The Fitzpatrick Incident]] , '''First run ins with the law''' I was charged with as . '''First Fitzpatrick incident''' On 17 September
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  • ...below''' , [[#3|Early Years]] , Teenage years , [[#7|First run in with the law]], [[#15/4/1878|Fitzpatrick Incident]] , Gold Mining , Mansfield Murders , ...' '''First run in with the law''' Some might say that I have an impressive criminal record. When they want to get you, that will get you.
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  • ...good number of the criminal class. It was also a resort for persons of the criminal class coming from other places.' ([[Royal Commission report 29/6/1881|RC125
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  • ...rt day 27 page 1|RC10544]]). Mrs Jones was charged with harbouring a known criminal. She was represented by '''Mr J Dwyer''' and was found not guilty ([[The Ar ...ammetry to fully record the site and its contents.Under Victorian Heritage law all of the historic artefacts will become the property of the State, catalo
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  • ...y's Trail''' Ned Kellys [[Ned Kellys Trial|trial]] was held in the Central Criminal Court in Melbourne, just down Russell Street from the Melbourne [[Melbourne ...ategory:Courts]] [[Category:Justice]] [[Category:law]] [[Category:criminal law]] [[Category:police]] [[Category:Kelly Gang]] [[Category:Government]]
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  • ...ed a &quot;ring&quot; that became a standing menace to the respectable and law-abiding people of the district. ...y of instances horses disappearing, if not permanently appropriated by the criminal classes, were freely taken and utilized as occasion served, and were then t
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  • ...s Ned Kelly was taken to Melbourne and the case transferred to the Central Criminal Court in Russell Street, near the Melbourne Gaol. ...the trial of Edward Kelly from the Beechworth Circuit Court to the Central Criminal Court in Melbourne. The application was made under section 33 of the Judica
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