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    Stewart's Creek Gaol is a heritage-listed prison at Centenary Drive, off Dwyer Street, Stuart, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was designed...
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  • heritage-listed sites, including: Centenary Drive, off Dwyer Street: Stewart's Creek Gaol (the historic buildings within the present Townsville Correction...
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  • Townsville Gaol, which was located at the site of the current Townsville Central State School on Warburton street in North Ward. Stewart's Creek Penal Establishment...
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  • buried in Bulimba Cemetery. 1886: Customs House, Brisbane 1889: Stewart's Creek Gaol, in the Queensland Colonial Architect's Office 1890-1891: Queensport...
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    Criminal Appeal on 2 March 1936. McQuade served his sentence at Stewart's Creek Gaol in Townsville and on the Numinbah Prison Farm. His ability to serve...
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    Mackay Customs House, Mackay, 1900–01 Brisbane Naval Offices, 1901 Boggo Road Gaol, No. 2 Division, Dutton Park, Brisbane, 1903 St. Johns' School and Institute...
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    sentenced to death by hanging, which was carried out at the Old Melbourne Gaol. Historian Geoffrey Serle called Kelly and his gang "the last expression...
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  • reduced to a Police Gaol and then a temporary Lunatic Asylum in 1877. The Centre closed temporarily in the early 1900s. The Gaol reopened on 8 March 1957...
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  • at Melbourne Gaol for the murder of Matthew Luck at Stony Creek (Spotswood) Patrick Kennedy – 1 October 1851 – Hanged at Melbourne Gaol for the murder...
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    Queensland. He was hanged in Brisbane Gaol in 1880. Kagariu was born at Imbil on Yabber Creek (now known as Yabba Creek) in Baiyambora territory into the...
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    Myall Creek massacre was the killing of at least thirty unarmed Indigenous Australians by twelve colonists on 10 June 1838 at the Myall Creek near the...
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    imprisonment with hard labour at Stuart Creek Gaol near Townsville. On 11 June 1955, Platts escaped from the gaol with fellow inmate Stanley Gordon Taylor...
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  • Sydney Gaol for his part in the Myall Creek Massacre. John Johnson – 18 December 1838 – Hanged at Sydney Gaol for his part in the Myall Creek Massacre...
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    the Sandhurst/Old Bendigo Gaol. The new theatre which seats nearly 1,000 people sits within the walls and structure of the gaol and retains some original...
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    Jimmy was taken to Darlinghurst Gaol. On the night of Tuesday 30 October, John Wilkinson of 'Glenrock' on Talbrook Creek was walking across his paddock...
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    gaol. A local landowner used this stone built a house for himself and donated the rest of the stone to the church. The Manse bears examples of gaol graffiti...
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    He was the artistic director of the Pros and Cons Playhouse at Parramatta Gaol from 1979 to 1981, and established the drama service on Kiribati National...
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    Stuart Town Gaol in Parson's Street; this was built in 1909, when the town had a European population of fewer than 20 people. Many of the gaol's first prisoners...
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  • (19) – 21 October 1878 – Hanged at Campbell Street Gaol for the murder of Susannah Stacey at Bream Creek George Braxton (60) – 10 July 1882 – Hanged at Launceston...
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  • Husband', was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in gaol on 25 May 2022 following a seven-week trial, for murdering her husband Daniel...
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    Australia. "HerStory: Kate VANDERLAAN". Women's Museum of Australia and Old Gaol Alice Springs. Retrieved 18 December 2021. Northern Territory Police, Fire...
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    Capitol, the Magazine, the Public Hospital, and the Public Gaol. Former notorious inmates of the Gaol include pirate Blackbeard's crew who were kept there while...
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    prematurely decommissioning the dam. The power plant on the grounds of the gaol supplied the entire town for eight years, during-which Fort Saskatchewan...
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  • John Gardiner's property in Hawthorn. They were placed in Melbourne's first gaol, but they escaped by setting fire to the thatched roof. In January 1840,...
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  • Christine Primrose Arthur Cormack Alison Kinnaird Blair Douglas Albums: Mairidh Gaol is Ceòl Praxis Bill Laswell (Buckethead, The Golden Palominos, Massacre,...
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    Uses. Stewart's Estate Act 1837 7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 22 30 June 1837 An Act to enable the Tutors and Curators of Sir Michael Robert Shaw Stewart Baronet...
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  • stabbed and Clarke had been shot 11 times. On his first day at Maitland Gaol, Milat was beaten by another inmate. Almost a year later, on 16 May 1997...
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    temperature in the Central Tablelands was 44.7 °C (112.5 °F) at Bathurst Gaol, in January 1878. The lowest temperature was −11.1 °C (12.0 °F) at Marrangaroo...
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    had served prison sentences in places like St Helena Island and Townsville Gaol and had been refused permission to return to their homes. A former Native...
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  • (Laws P6) 963. "Battle of Shannon and Chesapeake" (Laws J22) 964. "County Gaol" 965. "Timothy", "As I Was a Walking", "The Fair Maid" 966. "Go From My Window"...
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