Recent content by quock

Moving right along - if Steve is hinting at what I think he is, don't be too incredulous. The Catholic church has for many, many centuries held an iron grip on, particularly, the poor and un-educated people in Ireland and Third World Countries (Indonesia and South America in particular). Mother...

Steve (and others), in the interim since I last posted, I have, of all things, been doing some serious research into the Roman Catholic Church. It is now becoming clear (thanks mainly to the Enquiry into Child Sex Abuse) that evil and perverted priests have long been hiding behind their...

I'm totally outa here dougie - I'll leave you in charge of solving the crime

I very much hope so - I'm as keen as anyone is to unravel this mystery, but I try to think laterally, not just trot out the same old stuff that's been floating around for 114 years. A couple of more questions - I cannot find anything in any of the witness statements that hints about whether or...

dougie, you seem to be suffering from the same sort of mental block that afflicted Inspector Frederick Charles Urquhart, whose reason for letting go of Thomas Day was along the lines of "we had no reason for holding him". One can only imagine the incredulous looks on the faces of the members of...

dougie, if the police did such a great job, why did they let the No. 1 prime suspect (Thomas Day) walk away scot free and unhindered ? Why did they not even bother to check his background ?

It seems to me that every time the police had even a scrap of information under their noses, they suddenly lost interest or bungled the whole thing. Also an example of a family member's reticence - Witness Statement from Jeremiah Murphy Had you any suspicion -No. Have you since? -Yes...

Shown below is just one example of the incredible ineptitude of the investigating police. The Mr. (Archibald) Meston mentioned held the title of Protector of Aboriginals for South Queensland, and was contacted very early in the investigation to bring some black-trackers to Gatton. Mr. Meston...

As far as I can figure, the crime had to fall into one of three possible categories or scenario's, and below I have listed them in order of likelihood (#1 being the most likely) #1 The crime was an opportunistic, unplanned one based on lust, with the murderer selecting his victims at random...

page 52 here dougie http://www.gattonmurders.com/UrquhartInput.pdf The very reticent answers (when they could remember !) given by all of the Murphy family under oath, had the police tearing their hair out !

Sorry, I cannot understand your question - please rephrase it

Was this Mr. Jones also Thomas Day ?

Countless theories of course, have been put forward to explain this mystery, and I suppose that on average, half those theories rely on the murder's being pre-meditated, whilst the other half rely on the crime being a spontaneous, opportunistic event. The biggest argument against it being a...

It is patently obvious to anyone who reads through the questions asked of (and answers given by) the Murphy family as a whole, that they were all hiding something, which prevented them from answering fully and truthfully. It seems certain that the only reason they would protect a person...

The above evidence was of no value apparently, because Inspector Urquhart thought that even the prime suspect (Thomas Day) was a youth, and therefore could not be considered as a murderer candidate - (Quoting from Constable R.G. Christie's report, being questioned by Mr. Unmack with regard to...