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Public Record Office VictoriaReport, 12 December 1854,26 November 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 724 Victoria Police (including Office of the Chief Commissioner of Police)Eureka Stockade:Inspector Evans reports on the preludes to the attack on the Stockaderiot -
Public Record Office VictoriaDeposition, 7 October 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Depositions from Scobie Murderinquisition, james scobie, james bentley, d.s williamson, walter anderson, john gillott, hugh meikle, henry green, john campbell, duncan henderson, david richards, john haig, john fletcher, john phelan, walter davis, james hasseltop, archibald carmichael, william duncan, j.f bentley, barnard wech, peter martin, mary ann welch, john alfred carr, dr alfred carr -
Public Record Office VictoriaLetter, 12 August 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 466 Governor (including Lieutenant Governor 1851-1855 and Governor's Office)Eureka Stockade:J.W Lindsay forwards some suggestions to the Governor -
Public Record Office VictoriaDeposition, 1854,14 April 1858
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Additional Depositionstrial, goldfields, depositions, eureka, gold, mining, miners, gold rush, james scobie, john farrell, michael welsh -
Public Record Office VictoriaDeposition, 8 December 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Depositions VPRS 5527/P Unit 2, Item 2trial -
Public Record Office VictoriaDeposition, 30 November 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 283 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Depositions taken against Benjamin Ewins for Breach of the Peace charge/Gravel Pits Riottrial -
Public Record Office VictoriaDeposition, 30 November 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Depositions taken against George Goddard for Breach of the Peace charge/Gravel Pits Riottrial -
Public Record Office VictoriaDeposition, 8 December 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Depositions VPRS 5527/P Unit 2, Item 3trial -
Public Record Office VictoriaDeposition, 8 December 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Depositions VPRS 5527/P Unit 2, Item 4trial -
Public Record Office VictoriaDeposition, 27 October 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Depositions taken against Albert Hurd for Rioting at Bentley's Hoteltrial -
Public Record Office VictoriaDeposition, 9 December 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Depositions VPRS 5527/P Unit 2, Item 7trial -
Public Record Office VictoriaDeposition, 27 October 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Depositions taken against Henry Westerby for Rioting at Bentley's Hoteltrial -
Public Record Office VictoriaDeposition, 21 October 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Depositions taken against Andrew McIntyre for Rioting at Bentley's Hoteltrial -
Public Record Office VictoriaDeposition, 30 November 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Depositions taken against Donald Campbell for Breach of the Peace charge/Gravel Pits Riottrial -
Public Record Office VictoriaReport, 2 December 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Resident Commsisioner Rede’s description of the stockade (written on the day before the attack)robert rede, attack -
Public Record Office VictoriaLetter, 22 October 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Commissioner Rede reports arrest of 2 men concerned in the latest outragetrial -
Public Record Office VictoriaResolution, 13 March 1855
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 466 Governor (including Lieutenant Governor 1851-1855 and Governor's Office)Eureka Stockade:Bendigo Reform League call for the abandonment of the State Trialtrial, robert benson -
Public Record Office VictoriaCourt Record, 17 January 1855
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 475 Chief Secretary's DepartmentEureka Stockade:Proceedings of the Supreme Court in the matter of Queen v. Hayes and otherstrial, supreme court, eureka, eureka stockade -
Public Record Office VictoriaDeposition, 30 November 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Depositions taken against William Bryan for Breach of the Peace charge/Gravel Pits Riottrial -
Public Record Office VictoriaLetter, 30 November 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 466 Governor (including Lieutenant Governor 1851-1855 and Governor's Office)Eureka Stockade:Letter from Patrick Smyth to Hotham requesting temporary suspension of licence fee to avoid bloodshed -
Public Record Office VictoriaPetition, 1855
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Petition to Lieutenant-Governor Hotham from concerned citizens of Melbourne 1855 -
Public Record Office VictoriaLetter, 4 October 1855
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...The ArgusEureka Stockade:Peter Lalor's Narrativecharles hotham, peter lalor -
Public Record Office Victoria
Deposition, 1855
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General\'s Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Summary of the Trials of the thirteen Eureka prisoners charged with high treasontrial -
Public Record Office VictoriaBrief for the Prosecution, 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Brief for the Prosecution, Case no.16, Criminal Sessions Melbournetrial -
Public Record Office VictoriaDeposition, 26 January 1855
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Depositions VPRS 5527/P Unit 2, Item 8trial, circus -
Public Record Office VictoriaDeposition, 16 January 1855
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Depositions VPRS 5527/P Unit 2, Item 9trial -
Public Record Office VictoriaLetter, 1 December 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Hotham's reply to Rede's report 30th November -
Public Record Office VictoriaPoster, 1854
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...VA 2825 Attorney-General's Department (previously known as the Law Department)Eureka Stockade:Bakery Hill Meeting Postertrial, bakery hill -
Public Record Office Victoria
Transcript, 19 January 1855
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...The ArgusEureka Stockade:The Trial of Arthur Akehursttrial -
Public Record Office Victoria
Legal record (item) - Criminal Trial Brief for Harry Bruin and Benjamin Morris
... Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street North ...This collection of approximately 20 letters between Melbourne men Ben Morris and Harry Bruin, covering a period of several months in 1919, consists of original letters handwritten by Morris and carbon copies of Bruin’s replies. Love letters between men from this period are extremely rare in an Australian context, and globally. They were seized by police from Bruin’s home in Harcourt Street, Auburn in October 1919. The police were investigating a report that Bruin and Morris were conducting an intimate affair. The relationship came to light when the mother of one of Morris’ friends, having failed in her attempt to blackmail Bruin, went to the police. Blackmail was an ever-present danger to homosexual men at that time. Homosexual sex was against the law and even gossip alone could ruin reputations, careers and social standing. In refusing the demands of his attempted blackmailer, Bruin took an enormous risk. However, Morris and Bruin were lucky that their letters contained no descriptions of sex acts. It was not illegal to express love for a person of the same sex and when the matter came before the court, the police had no choice but to let the matter drop without laying charges. Letters like these are rare as potentially incriminating correspondence between men was usually destroyed by the writers or the recipients, to prevent it falling into the hands of the authorities, blackmailers, or disapproving third parties. These letters survived only because they were seized by the authorities for the purpose of prosecution. Morris and Bruin’s letters are also important because, together with the statements taken from the two men and others involved in the case by police prosecutors, they provide insight into the development of the liaison over an extended period. The emotional letters provide rare evidence of a deep romantic affection between two men in their own words. Quoted from "A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects" by Graham Willett, Angela Bailey, Timothy W. Jones and Sarah Rood.
