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From: "Trevor Jennings" <>
Subject: [AUS-VIC-West] Bartholomew O'CALLAGHAN
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:21:47 +1000

Found this in the Geelong Advertiser 1876:
A blacksmith named Bartholomew O'Callaghan, who hails from terang, got on a
spree a fortnight ago, which has ended in his confinement in the gaol for 7
days. He wnt to melb, where he spent his money and alarmed police by
stating that he had been robbed of a large sum of money. He left the
metropolis a few evenings ago in the steamer 'Despatch', and as he had no
money to pay his passage, he would have been handed over to police had not
a fellow traveller kindly paid the fare. Bartholomew wandered up to Mount
Moriac (just south of Geelong), where he committed a petty theft, and
yesterday was sentenced by the Police Magistrat to seven day imprisonment.
regards, Pam Jennings

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