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Getting warm, Regards, Steve

WOW, You Guys are amazing. If anyone from this forum is truly interested in solving this case I am happy to make available FREE of charge all the information I have amassed after 7 years of research. Just maybe we can put this case to bed. Anyone interested just e-mail me on...

Thanks for that Stan, there have been some very interesting and helpful posts by yourself an others. As you will see by the below hanging an Irishman perhaps even an Irish priest would not, indeed could not happen. Federation was at stake. By late 1898 it was becoming clear that in the...

In those times ask yourself what would be a difficult theoty to act upon? Ever hear of a priest being hung in those times? Regards, Steve

"Touch not the Lord's Anointed" Regards, Steve

Maybe it tells you it was all over by then. Not much time for all that is supposed to have happened. Regards, Steve

Hi there You Can Read That Here http://www.gattonmurders.com/ClarkeOnDay.pdf Regards, Steve

Why was the family so reluctant to have Mary. “Polly” M’Neill. testify? Shame and scandal in the family. Mary. “Polly” Murphy was born some time prior to the 18th of July 1866. She left home about 1890. Her name at the time of the Tragedy was Mary “Polly” M’Neill, wife of William M’Neill...

From The Main Forensics Guy At The Time A.M.P. Buildings Edward street, Brisbane 1st March 1899 To W.E Parry Okeden Esq., Commissioner of Police. Brisbane. Sir, The following notes should I trust give you the results obtained from an examination of certain clothes worn by the victims of the...

From the evidence I have it seems the original doctor was a drunkard and grossly incompetent. He didn't even undress the bodies for examination. Regards, Steve

Kate Ryan's Story MONDAY, JUNE 10. 1895 INCEST.-Michael Ryan was charged with this offence, the prosecuting witness being her granddaughter, a girl about fifteen years of age. Constable Bailey deposed to the arrest of Ryan, who, in auswor to the warrant, said : “l am as innocent as the child...

Very observant. To my mind pregnancy (or trying to end one) is what it was all about although I doubt the father was McNeill. The perpetrator was called "Father" by the victims I doubt murder was ever intended. After it happened it was made to look like rape was the motive to throw suspicion...

The Rienzi Story raises its head. My thought js it was said in jest, by the police when asked what Thomas Day was reading, as if to say how the 🤬🤬🤬* would I know. Interestingly the high brow book was written by the most likely perpetrator of the Oxley murder Edward Lytton Carus-Wilson's uncle...

She may have been illigitimate. Left home about 1890. Married M'Neill 17 Jun 1896 She moved to Gatton to stay at the Murphy's in late September 1898. Her name was Mary M’Neill, wife of William M’Neill. Married in 1896 At the time of the tragedy she had two children: Beatrice born in (July)...

I am now of the belief the cover up goes as high as Rome. Regards, Steve