When news spread that Governor George Bowen’s long anticipated arrival in Brisbane in December 1859 had been delayed, the Queensland Free Press claimed ‘Pleasure arrangements were upset, a

Since the mid-sixteenth century, there has been a tradition in British society wherein, upon the completion of their education, privileged young men would embark upon a celebratory period in which

Patrick Keating, Truth (Brisbane), 28 July 1907. Keating was charged in 1907 following an incident at the Dornville Hotel, Millmerran

Dornville Hotel, Millmerran, 1907

Dornville Hotel
Millmerran, QLD
Australia
1 January 1907
3 November 2010
3 November 2010

Location

Dornville Hotel
Millmerran, QLD
Australia

Collection Queensland State Archives

Plan of the Dornville Hotel, Criminal Depositions, 1907, Queensland State Archives. In 1907, 47-year-old Patrick Keating was seen acting suspiciously in the hallway of the Dornville Hotel in Millmerran near Pittsworth. He was making his way from bedroom no 4 to bedroom no 6, occupied by heavy-set shearer John Conway, aged about 40.  Conway tried to assert that Keating had assaulted him. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Why had Conway decided to stay the night when he only lived a few miles away?  He was sober and aware of ‘certain rumours’ concerning Keating. Conway admitted that he had asked Keating to return to his room for a tube of lanoline. His apparent excuse: ‘I wanted to see how far ... [he] would go’.

Alfred Shaw and Co, new crockery shop in Queen Street Brisbane and the stores situated in Fortitude Valley, John Oxley Library.

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 160411

William Green and James Fletcher, Truth (Brisbane), 30 August 1908. The police were aware of goings-on in certain places.

Truth (Brisbane) and John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image APU-048-0001-0017

William Johns, Truth (Brisbane) 13 January 1907; Pike Brothers, Queen Street, Brisbane c1920, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 67440

42-year-old Peter Crown and 23-year-old Patrick Hogan, from Her Majesty’s Prison, Photographic Record and Description of Prisoners, February 1894 to August 1896, QSA, PRI 1/10.

Collection Queensland State Archives

Sections 208, 209, 210 and 211, Criminal Code Act, 1899 (63 Vic. No 9)

An Act to Consolidate and Amend the Statute Law of Queensland Relating to Offences Against the Person, 29 Victorae, No 11, 13 September 1865, in Frederick Augustus Cooper (ed), Statutes in force in the Colony of Queensland: volume one, Brisbane, Government Printer, 1881

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