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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.  
    9 KB (1,498 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2015
  • ...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
    4 KB (652 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ..., [[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.
    8 KB (1,376 words) - 15:44, 20 November 2015
  • ...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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