The Gun Alley Tragedy: Record of the Trial of Colin Campbell Ross
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At the outset it is desirable to correct a wrong impression which, very widely felt, has tended to allay the feeling of uneasiness in the public mind. Ross, as is well known, appealed to the Full Court of Victoria, which dismissed the appeal. Thence he carried his case to the High Court of Australia, which refused, one learned Judge dissenting, to interfere with the decision of the Supreme Court. From this fact it has been assumed that two Appellate Courts, consisting of three Judges and five Judges respectively, have endorsed the verdict of the jury. Nothing could be further from the facts. S...
Chapters (181)
- The Gun Alley Tragedy
- PREFACE.
- PART I. ⸻ INTRODUCTORY.
- THE APPELLATE COURTS.
- WHY THE JURY MISJUDGED.
- PART II. ⸻ THE CROWN CASE.
- ROSS INTERVIEWED.
- THE TRIAL.
- THE BLOODY BOTTLE.
- OLIVE MADDOX’S EVIDENCE.
- THE MATTHEWS CONFESSION.
- HARDING’S STORY.
- DUNSTAN’S CORROBORATION.
- ROSS’S MOVEMENTS.
- THE SHEEN OF GOLDEN HAIRS.
- THE FINDING OF THE SERGE.
- THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE.
- DETECTIVE BROPHY’S BLUNDER.
- PART III. ⸻ ANALYSIS OF THE EVIDENCE.
- WHY CONFESS TO MATTHEWS.
- CHANGES IN MATTHEWS’S EVIDENCE.
- POWERS OF INVENTIVENESS.
- OLIVE MADDOX TESTED.
- HARDING’S COCK-AND-BULL STORY.
- CONFLICTS IN THE CONFESSIONS.
- A MODEL LODGING-HOUSE KEEPER.
- CONFESSIONS COMPARED.
- WAS THERE “INSIDE” KNOWLEDGE?
- AN EXPERT ON HAIR.
- A MISSING LINK.
- THE GIRL’S ATTIRE.
- THE LIGHT IN THE SALOON.
- POINTS THE JURY MISSED.
- PART IV. ⸻ FRESH FACTS.
- HALLIWELL’S STRANGE STORY.
- MADDOX IN THE SALOON.
- OTHER NEW WITNESSES.
- THE CROWN’S NEW EVIDENCE.
- PART V. ⸻ THE DEFENCE.
- ROSS IN THE BOX.
- STRONG CORROBORATION.
- AN UNBROKEN PHALANX.
- ROSS’S FIRMNESS.
- ROSS AND HIS FAMILY.
- IS THE MYSTERY SOLVED?
- APPENDIX.
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