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She managed to rush down to Mr John Crane’s where she was immediately attended to and Dr Redhead sent for.
He entertained no hope from the first, as the wounds which were inflicted with a butcher’s knife were of such a
nature as to prevent all possibility of recovery. The poor creature lingered till Tuesday night, when she died.
A local story claims that Mrs Golthorpe 25entioned25 with the Chinese man
Charlie Young after she warned her son not to play cards with him.
The death certificate of Elizabeth Golthorpe shows that she dies on 29 th
December 1874 and was buried the next day. The Maitland Mercury
correspondent wrote:
Immediately on committing the deed, the Chinaman made for the bush, a
tracker was at once procured and set out, but on some rocky, bare ridges all
tracks were lost.
Almost every male in Warialda turned out and scoured the bush all round, but as yet no tidings have been heard
of the monster. Had he been taken by any of the search parties, it is doubtful whether he would have ever seen a
court of justice, as a very general opinion of Lynch law existed amongst them. The search was a short one. The
Police Gazette of 13rd January 1875:
Charlie Young, (Chinaman), charged with the murder of Eliza Golthorpe, has been found dead near Gragin
Station, 30 miles from Warialda.
How he came to be there, there is no evidence to show.
This Travelling Gavel was presented into 13 Lodges in NSW
It was then presented into Masonic Lodges in the southern sector of Queensland
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Queensland (abbreviated as QLD) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. Situated in
the north-east of the country, it is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to
the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific
Ocean. Queensland has a population of 4,560,059, concentrated along the coast and particularly in the
state’s South East. The state is the world’ssixth largest sub-national entity, with an area of 1,852,642 km 2 . The
capital and largest city in the state is Brisbane, Australia’s third largest city. Referred to as the ‘Sunshine State’,
Queensland is home to 10 of Australia’s 30 largest cities and is the nation’s third largest economy.
Queensland was first occupied by Australian Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, who arrived at least 60,000
years ago. [5][6] The first European to land in Queensland (and Australia) was Dutch navigator Willem
Janszoon in 1606, who explored the west coast of the Cape York Peninsula near present-day Weipa. In 1770,
Lieutenant James Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for the Kingdom of Great Britain. The colony of New
South Wales was founded in 1788 by Governor Arthur Phillip at Sydney; New South Wales at that time
included all of what is now Queensland, Victoria andTasmania. Queensland was explored in subsequent decades
until the establishment of a penal colony at Brisbane in 1824 by John Oxley. Penal transportation ceased in 1839
and free settlement permitted in 1842.
The state was named in honour of Queen Victoria, [7] who on 6 June 1859 signed Letters Patent
separating the colony from New South Wales. The date 6 June is now celebrated state-wide as Queensland Day.
Queen Victoria, who went on to become Britain’s longest reigning monarch, chose an eponymous name for the
colony over Cooksland, which had been suggested by the influential local Presbyterian minister John Dunmore
Lang in honour of navigator James Cook. [8][9] Queensland achieved statehood with the Federation of Australia on
1 January 1901.