Changes

Royal Commission report day 16 page 13

5,567 bytes added, 04:04, 15 November 2015

Import from source

Story of the KellyGang - the Royal Commission evidence

[[Royal Commission report day 16 page 12|previous page]] / [[Royal Commission report day 16 page 14|next page]]

== The Royal Commission evidence for 5/5/1881 ==

''''''

=== full text ===

(see also introduction to [[Royal Commission report 5/5/1881|day 16]])

'''[[Jacob Wilson|Jacob Wilson]] '''giving evidence''''''

[[#rc4540|4540]] Have you received any remuneration from the Government for keeping Stephens?— Yes; he paid me eight shillings, and he went away. Superintendent [[Sadleir|Sadleir]] asked me in Benalla what he gave, and I told him, and he gave me £1 then. I got £1 8s. for that.

[[#rc4541|4541]] And how much for the hay?— Thirty shillings. They were in my paddock two nights and two days.

[[#rc4542|4542]] Did you bear a good character in the district?— Yes.

[[#rc4543|4543]] Were you ever summoned by the police for any offence?— Never in the colony. I can say before this Commission, I am 29 years in this colony, and there is nothing against my character.

[[#rc4544|4544]] Why did you wish to be examined before this Commission?— I wished to be examined because I suffered greatly, and so that I may get compensation from the Government for my loss.

[[#rc4545|4545]] Were you on a [[Selectors|selection]]?— Yes.

[[#rc4546|4546]] How long?— Five years.

[[#rc4547|4547]] Have you paid the rent?— Yes, every rent.

[[#rc4548|4548]] What has been done with the land now?— Somebody else has got it now.

[[#rc4549|4549]] Has it been re-selected?— No. I owed some money, and I am seven months in Melbourne now. A man named [[Charles De Boos' Seven Creeks hotel|De Boos]] has got it now.

[[#rc4550|4550]] You owed some money on this land?— Yes.

[[#rc4551|4551]] In consequence of those difficulties did you pay your rent?— Yes.

[[#rc4552|4552]] Did you owe some money to a storekeeper?— Yes.

[[#rc4553|4553]] Who was that?— De Boos.

[[#rc4554|4554]] Did De Boos sell your land under the sheriff?— Yes.

[[#rc4555|4555]] Who was the purchaser?— He was himself.

[[#rc4556|4556]] Would it have occurred—would you have been in debt and your land sold if you had been able to remain on it?— No, because I have three big sons, and they have to run away from the district the same as I have. £17 was all the debt I was in.

[[#rc4557|4557]] Did De Boos sell your land for that?— Yes.

[[#rc4558|4558]] How many acres?— Fifty-five acres.

[[#rc4559|4559]] Then it was sold for that?— That sill I was in debt.

[[#rc4560|4560]] What improvements were on it?— There were improvements on it valued by the Crown lands bailiff at £106, and I have another receipt for clearing five acres valued at £20.

[[#rc4561|4561]] Where are your sons now?— I do not know; I have not heard from them since the 17 th October.

[[#rc4562|4562]] They have cleared out?— Yes.

[[#rc4563|4563]] Before that were they living with you?— Yes.

[[#rc4564|4564]] What do you estimate your loss at?— Well, my loss is very great, if I estimate it. I lost my living and I lost my liberty.

[[#rc4565|4565]] Was not there some arrangement made between yourselves and the police to make use of it as a station?— Mr. Sadleir said to me, one time I was there, they were going to put up police stations, and he thought my place might be a suitable place to put a station on; and I said it was the best place they could have, because all the gaps in the dividing ranges coming from Mansfield and into Greta are near there, and it would answer well as the people travel that road mostly.

[[#rc4566|4566]] Who travel that way?— Those outlaws and the horse thieves.

[[#rc4567|4567]] That arrangement came to nothing?— No, it came to nothing; he said he would see what he could do, and that was the last I heard of it.

[[#rc4568|4568]] How long have you been in Melbourne ?— Seven and a half months.

[[#rc4569|4569]] What money have you to live upon?— I came to Melbourne with very little money, £26, when I started from Benalla, but I had to give my son some, and I am indebted a good deal in Melbourne .

[[#rc4570|4570]] What are you doing?— I have just got a situation to go to to-morrow.

[[#rc4571|4571]] Did you get any employment since you came down?— No.....

=== Previous page / Next page ===

 

{{MicroficheCopy}} 

'''The [[Royal Commission report day 15 page 1|previous day]] / [[Royal Commission report day 17 page 1|next day]] . . . Royal Commission [[Royal Commission Index|index]]'''

[[Category:Royal Commission]] [[Category:April 1505]] [[Category:Royal Commission]] [[Category:Commisioner Standish]] [[Category:history]]

MediaWiki:Sidebar

{{^|Original page location \documents\RoyalCommission\RC810505_16_13_4540.html}}

Newer edit →

Admin

Bureaucrat, administrator

14,870

edits