| Sources |
- [S_1474357851] Ancestry.com, Australia Death Index, 1787-1985, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Compiled from publicly available sources.Original data: Compiled from publicly available sources.).
Death date: 1925
Death place: Queensland
- [S_1477548884] Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1881 England Census, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. 1881 British Isles Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the l), Class: RG11; Piece: 4667; Folio: 57; Page: 49; GSU roll: 1342128.
Birth date: abt 1842
Birth place: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
Residence date: 1881
Residence place: Attercliffe cum Darnall, Yorkshire, England
- [S_1475746296] Ancestry.com, 1871 England Census, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1871. Data imaged from the National A), Class: RG10; Piece: 3369; Folio: 97; Page: 11; GSU roll: 839363.
Birth date: abt 1842
Birth place: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
Residence date: 1871
Residence place: Bracebridge, Lincolnshire, England
- [S_1476660979] Ancestry.com, 1861 England Census, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data - Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1861. Data imaged from The National A), Class: RG 9; Piece: 2418; Folio: 57; Page: 1; GSU roll: 542968.
Birth date: abt 1843
Birth place: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
Residence date: 1861
Residence place: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
- [S_1476123928] FreeBMD, England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Contro).
- [S_942820245] Ancestry.com, England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).
- [S159252258] Ancestry.com, England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).
- [S_890319360] Ancestry.com, Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).
- .
Qld deaths index for Ann Dobbs, 1925/C3612, dau of William Jackson and Martha Shaw
<hr>
- .
MOUNT MORGAN ASSAULT CASE.
John Moore, on remand, was charged at the Police Court, Mount Morgan, yesterday, before the Police Magistrate (Mr. J. C. Linedale) with having unlawfully done grievous bodily harm to Ann Dobbs. Senior-sergeant Kelly conducted the case.
Henry Butler Kenny, attached to the Criminal Investigation Department, sta- tioned at Mount Morgan, deposed that about twenty minutes past one o'clock on the morning of Friday, the 4th instant, he saw a man named William Dobbs in com- pany with First-class Constable Redgrave at the Mount Morgan police station. Dobbs made a complaint to him in consequence of which Constable Redgrave and himself accompanied Dobbs to his resi- dence in Dobbs-street, where he saw a woman named Ann Dobbs. The woman was lying on her bed in the front room of the house in a dazed condition. She had a curved wound about 5 in. long on top of the head and blood was oozing from it. The clothes of the bed on which was lying were saturated with blood. Dobbs pointed out two large pools and several spots of blood on the floor of a skillion room of the house. Witness also saw close to the pools of blood marks of someone who had worn hob-nailed boots as though a struggle had taken place. The door was of hardwood. Dr S.J. Richard arrived at the house soon afterwards and had a conversation with the injured woman, in consequence of which witness went in search of the accused. He found the accused about a quarter to four o'clock the same morning asleep on one of the back verandahs of the Leichhardt Hotel. He woke him up and conveyed him to East-street, where he said to him: "It is now quarter to four o'clock of the morning of Friday, the 4th of September. Yester- day was Thursday, the 34rd of September. When did you come to Mount Morgan? The accused replied " Yesterday evening about four o'clock." Witness then asked him where he went when he arrived. The accused replied that he went to the Railway Hotel. On being asked if he saw anyone that he knew there, the accused replied "No." Witness said "Are you sure of that now ?" The accused replied "I saw Mrs. Dobbs there." Witness asked him if he spoke to her and he replied that he did but did not know what he said to her. Witness then asked him where he' was about nix o'clock that evening, and he replied that he did not know. On being asked if he was not at Mrs. Dobbs's house, he replied that he was and that he saw Mrs. Dobbs there. Witness asked if there was anything the matter with Mrs. Dobbs when he left the house, and the accused answered " No." On being asked if he interfered with her in any way whilst he was there, he replied " No. I never touched her." Witness then conveyed the accused to the watchhouse, where he examined the clothes he was wearing. He found blond stains on his coat, vest, and trousers, and on a handkerchief that he had in his possession. Witness took possession of these articles and now produced them. Witness also saw blood stains on the accused's right hand. Witness asked the accused how he accounted for the blood stains on his clothes and hand, and he replied "They're not blood stains, they are wood stains. I am a wood chopper." The accused then said "You know Mrs Dobbs meet with an acciddent. A goat knocked her down going round the corner and I picked her up and carried her in and put her on her bed." Witness asked the accused if he saw the goat knock her down, to which he replied in the negative. About five o'clock the same morning, Dr Richard examined the clothes referred to and the accused's hands and body. About half-past nine o'clock the same
morning First-class Constable Redgrave and witness conveyed the accused to the bedside of the injured woman. Dobbs was also there. In the accused's presence and hearing witness said to Mrs. Dobbs "Do you know this man ?" (pointing to the accused). She replied "Yes! That is the man who hit me," Witness then took the accused into the skillion room and pointed out the blood stains and nail marks on the floor to him, and asked him if he knew anything about them. He replied that he was not in that room on the previous day and that his boots would not make similar marks. Witness directed him to take one of his boots s off. Witness took the boot and slid it along the flood and saw that it made similar marks to those referred to near the blood stain. He took possession of the boots, which were a pair of hob-nailed bluchers, and now produced them. About twenty-minutes to ten o'clock the same morning the accused and witness were standing in Dobbs' sittingroom. The accused, pointing to a table in one of the skillion rooms, which was used as a dining-room and kitchen said : "I was sitting at that table there yesterday evening. Mrs. Dobbs walked in here. She was away about ten minutes. It got up to see where she was and I saw her lying half on and half off that bed (pointing to the bed that Mrs. Dobbs was then lying on). The sleeve of her blouse was all blood. I picked her up and laid her on the bed.'' Witness asked the accused if he saw a cut on her head then and he said "No." Witness asked if he spoke to her when she was on that bed and he said ''No, nor did she speak to me." Witness asked him what he did then, to which he replied that the went away, that he did not anyone Mrs. Dobbs was injured, that he knew where her husband was working, and that he meant to come up and see him after he came off work. On being asked if he did come up and see him, he replied that he did not-that he had other business on. Witness then conveyed the accused back to the watchhouse where he said to him "I now charge you with unlawfully doing grievous bodily harm to one Ann Dobbs, at Mount Morgan, on the 3rd instant." The accused replied "I did nothing to her." About two o'clock on the morning of the 4th instant Mrs. Dobbs handed witness bloodstained blouse, which he produced for identification. There were four-rooms in Dobbs's house. The' skillion room in which he saw the blood stains was imme- diately behind the front bedroom where Mrs.Dobbs was lying. A person coming from the skillion room into the front bed-room would have, to pass through the dining- room, and front sitting-room. He did not notice any blood stains between the skil- lion room and front bed-room. From in- dications he should say that a struggle had taken place in the skillion room. A sewing machine, a bed, and a couple of boxes were in the room where the blood stains were. The mat near the bed was dis- arranged. The drawers of the sewing machine were-in the corner of the room and had evidently been recently knocked out. He measured the lines between the marks made by the accused's boots and the marks on the floor, and they were both ½ in. apart.
The accused, on being, asked if he had any questions to ask the witness, replied " No." He also said he was innocent of the whole thing.
The accused was remanded for eight days, Mrs. Dobbs being too ill to appear.
Bail was refused.
APA citation
MOUNT MORGAN ASSAULT CASE. (1903, September 8). Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878-1954), p. 6. Retrieved May 23, 2011, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52995022
<hrf>
MT. MORGAN ASSAULT CASE. A NEW TRIAL. PRISONER FOUND GUILTY.
At the criminal sitting of the District Court yesterday, before His Honour Judge Noel, John Moore was charged that, on the 3rd of September, at Mount Morgan, he did unlawfully assault a married woman named Ann Dobbs, occasioning her bodily harm. He pleaded not guilty.
The Crown Prosecutor (Mr. H. E. King) appeared to prosecute for the Crown and Mr. J. D. Murray for the prisoner.
This was a new trial, the jury empanelled on the previous day having disagreed.
The following jury was empanelled : D. Lysaght, E. Thiel, J. Connor, J. Lennon, A. T. Lloyd, D. Whittington, W. E. Snell, P. Taylor, R Farrington, C. Cranston, W. J. Crozier, and B. Phillips.
The witnesses who gave evidence on the previous day again testified for the Crown, with the exception of Dr. S. J. Richard, who had, it was stated, left for Mount Morgan owing to a misunderstanding. The Crown admitted that the injury to Mrs. Dobbs's head might have been caused by her falling on the corner of a box.
For the defence the prisoner again gave evidence.
The jury retired at ten minutes to one o'clock, and, after deliberating for twenty minutes, returned with a verdict of guilty.
Mr. Murray said he would like to refer His Honour to the evidence of Mr. and Mrs. Dobbs as to the previous good character of the prisoner. The prisoner had frequently been trusted by them when they had left the house. This was the prisoner's first offence. He tendered a reference from Mr. J. Stack, Mount Morgan, who stated be had known the prisoner for five years and had found him to be a quiet and respectable man of a retiring disposition. He (Mr. Murray) asked His Honour to take the prisoner's age (fifty-five years) into consideration.
His Honour : It is down here as forty six. He must have given that age.
The prisoner: That is my age - fifty-five.
Mr. Murray : In what year were you born
The prisoner : In 1846 or 1847.
His Honour : Has he any money?
Mr. Murray : No, he has not. As this is his first offence, I ask Your Honour to extend the first offenders' provisions of the Criminal Code to him.
The prisoner : I have been a pioneer in New South Wales and Queensland.
His Honour: Is anything known against him ?
The prisoner : No
Mr. King : Nothing but repeated convictions for drunkenness.
Sub-inspector Toohey : He is a hard-working man and bears a good character. He gets drunk occasionally.
His Honour : Has he been in goal since his committal ?
Mr. Murray : He had bail granted to him : but he could not find it. He has been in goal since the 4th of September - nearly six weeks.
His Honour said he would deal with the prisoner leniently, but would not extend to him the first offenders' provisions of the Criminal Code, as the offence was too serious for that. So far as he could gather from the evidence, the jury had come to a right conclusion. If there had been any evidence that Mrs. Dobbs was addicted to drink, possibly there would have been a different verdict; but there was entire absence of such evidence. The injury was a very serious one, and he thought it had been caused through the prisoner's instrumentality. The jury was of the same opinion. The prisoner had been tried by two juries, so that out of the twenty four jurors there must have been a very considerable majority of the opinion that it was through the prisoner that the injury had resulted. The prisoner did nothing to aid the woman after she received the injury even if she had been hurt through her own fault. He did not think the prisoner was in such a state of drunkenness that he should have left her to take her chance of living or dying. He was willing to think the prisoner was impelled by drink to commit the offence - that was, he had excited him- self by drink, he could not think the Court had actually before it all that took place in the struggle between the prisoner and Mrs. Dobbs. Still, it had enough to know that the result to her had been very serious and as the prisoner had a record for drinking, he thought to send him away for some time would probably be the best thing for him. It would prevent him probably from getting into worse trouble. Allowing for the six weeks he had been in gaol, he would sentence him to three months and two weeks' imprisonment with hard labour in Rockhampton Gaol.
The Court adjourned sine die.
APA citation
MT. MORGAN ASSAULT CASE. (1903, October 15). Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878-1954), p. 6. Retrieved May 23, 2011, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52992165
<hr>
- [S_1476119004] FreeBMD, England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1915, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Contro).
- .
UK marriages:
Name: William Dobbs and Ann Jackson
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1861
Registration district: Worksop
Inferred County: Nottinghamshire
Volume Number: 7b
Page Number: 58
<hr>
|
1842 - 1925 (82 years)
[2, 3, 4, 5]