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Interloping at a history conference The Digital Panopticon: Penal history in a digital age

Research Brief 24   As the Prosecution Project’s resident statistician, I recently infiltrated my first history conference – the Digital Panopticon held at the University of Tasmania. I must admit that this conference was one of the most fascinating I have attended. Interesting not only for the variety of projects we heard about, but for […]

On this week in... 1908

Cold case blows hot

On 26 March 1908, labourer William Riley was tried at the Roma Circuit Court for the willful murder of Ernest Henry Martyr almost thirteen years before, on 14 July 1895. Martyr’s disappearance from Cunnumulla, where his common-law wife and children lived, was not thought suspicious until 1907 when Riley allegedly spontaneously confessed to killing Martyr and burning his body. Several motivations were suggested for the murder. In 1894 Riley had been charged with arson but the case was not prosecuted after itinerant shearer Martyr, who was to have been one of the witnesses, failed to appear. Furthermore, Martyr’s son testified that the day after his father was last seen Riley had begun living with them and sleeping in his mother’s bed. Riley was found guilty and sentenced to death.

This trial report is from Western Star and Roma Advertiser

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