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Witnesses to Kellys execution Witnesses to Kellys execution
Public Record Office Victoria
Public Record Office Victoria (State Archives of Victoria, Australia)
North Melbourne, Australia
This certificate is the return made by the medical officer who certified the death of the prisoner. It was subpoenaed and published in the Government Gazette, public confirmation that the execution had taken place. Sheriff Rede notes in his own report of the execution to the Chief Secretary that only a very few people turned up to witness the execution.
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- Title: Witnesses to Kellys execution Witnesses to Kellys execution
- Creator: Public Record Office Victoria, Public Record Office Victoria
- Date Created: 1880-10-11
- Provenance: VPRS 4969 P0 UNIT 2 ITEM 78 RECORD 1, VPRS 4969 P0 UNIT 2 ITEM 78 RECORD 1
- Transcript:We hereby testify and declare that we have this day been present when the extreme penalty of the Law was carried into execution of the body of Edward Kelly convicted at the Central Criminal Court held at Melbourne of the twenty ninth day of October and sentenced to death by the neck that the said Edward Kelly was in pursuance of the said sentence hanged by the neck until his body was dead. Dated this eleventh day of November A. D. 1880 at the Gaol of Melbourne Name Address Robt. Rede Sheriff J.B. Castieau Governor of Gaol Louis. Ellis Deputy Sheriff Fredk A. Winch Supt of Police Edwd. Barker MD F R C S Eng Henry. Glenny Justice of the Peace Mr. Biowup Reporter Daily Telegraph J. Middleton. Reporter Herald E.C. Martin. Of Age Staff Grant. Oakley Anglo Australian Press James. Williams Age D. Nelom Argus J. Higham. Hills. M.D. Fitzroy Melbourne John Leach Sydney Morning Herald J.N. Quin Chief Warder Alexr. Nixon Senior Warder Hugh. Munro Warder W. Flanagan Warder R.S. Miller. Warder James. B. Russell. Warder . R W V McCall Clerk Melb GaolHide TranscriptShow Transcript
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