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Stringy Bark Creek- Ellen Kelly: Recognizance of bail Stringy Bark Creek- Ellen Kelly: Recognizance of bail

Public Record Office Victoria

Public Record Office Victoria (State Archives of Victoria, Australia)

Public Record Office Victoria (State Archives of Victoria, Australia)
North Melbourne, Australia

Dated 21 May 1878, this legal document was used to ensure that the defendant in a trial appeared in court. The document states that if Ellen Kelly fails to be present in court, her sureties would lose the fifty pounds that they had placed for her bond. Over the page, details are given as to the nature of the crime, as well as the date and location of the trial. The names of Robert Strahan and William Dinning are mentioned in the page margin, as they put up her bond money.

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  • Title: Stringy Bark Creek- Ellen Kelly: Recognizance of bail Stringy Bark Creek- Ellen Kelly: Recognizance of bail
  • Creator: Public Record Office Victoria, Public Record Office Victoria
  • Date Created: 1878-05-21
  • Provenance: VPRS 4966 P0 unit 1 Item 4-0, VPRS 4966 P0 unit 1 Item 4-0
  • Transcript:
    The condition of the within-written Recognizance is such,That whereas the said Ellen Kelly was on the 17th day of May instant charged before R. McBean and W. Little Justices within mentioned, for that she, the said Ellen Kelly on the Fifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy eight, at Greta in the colony aforesaid, did aid and abett one Edward Kelly in an attempt to murder one Alexander Fitzpatrick at Greta in the Colony aforesaid.if therefore the said Ellen Kelly will appear at the next Court of Assize to be helded at Beechworth, in and for the Northern Bailiwick of the Colony of Victoria, on the Ninth day of October, and there surrender herself into the custody of the keeper of the common gaol there, and plead to such information as may be filed against her for and in respect of the charge aforesaid, and take her trial upon the same, and not depart the said Court without leave, then the said Recognizance to be void, or else to stand in full force and virtue. [Robert Strahan William Dinning Ellen Kelly her x mark Witness W. Postlewaith
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