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Tag: Edith Cowan

A Trial on Trial

A man killed his wife. When the powerful find themselves on trial, discussions happen about the justice system that don’t happen when the powerless are similarly ensnared.

Published March 12, 2019
Categorised as Dyson Tagged Edith Cowan, James Dyson, Maitland Brown, murder, trial by jury

It should go without saying
(but unfortunately it needs to be): All content created by Alan Thompson @2016-2022 unless otherwise acknowledged. Copying for private research purposes is fine. Republishing on another platform without prior permission is not.

All the articles

  • Unreliable Witness
  • Perth City Council Minutes 1858-1875
  • Tales of the Moffatt
  • Researching a Convict Ship
  • Locating the United Service Tavern
  • Rank Hypocrisy
  • Are you … kidding me?
  • Bio: Richard Edwards (jr)
  • How 2020 ended…
  • A little bit of war profiteering
  • New Government House
  • Reconstructing old Perth out of cardboard (so it lasts, this time)
  • What has been left unsaid..
  • Coming eventually in 2020…
  • Going to the Fairies…
  • Grave Matters
  • Won’t you think of the children?
  • Boom time.
  • Alias Hoffington
  • Rename Canning Bridge
  • Choose your own Adventure
  • A Trial on Trial
  • Pavement Archaeology
  • Dyson’s hat
  • A Tale of Three Cities
  • The Sons of Australia Benefit Society
  • Dyson’s Corner (the Second)
  • Our George Dyson
  • Thomas Dyson: The Canny one
  • The Fate of The First Wife, Part III
  • The Fate of the First Wife, Part II
  • The Fate of the First Wife, Part I
  • On Cemetery Hill
  • I demand the right to be labelled a bastard
  • Recognise this face?
  • Astley 3: The Gallant Ship Australia
  • Astley 2: For Sail
  • Astley 1: Orphans of a Perfect Storm
  • When the apocalypse comes
  • The Stranger In the Mirror
  • An Anthemic Ancestor
  • The Smoking Gun
  • Happy Gunpowder Treason Day
  • Dyson’s Hotel
  • Dyson’s Corner (the First)
  • Winterbottom’s End
  • The Sons of Australia: Foundation and Foulkes
  • Under the Establishment
  • I hate Maitland Brown
  • Francis Armstrong: Thesis
  • Thurso
  • Aberdeen
  • Literally —ing the Patriarchy: Introducing Jane.
  • Kill the Joke (AKA: “You had to be there”)
  • Steam Powered Luddites
  • Timber!
  • The Little Boy Lost: Enter Drewy.
  • Know your Guv’nor
  • Secret Squirrel Business
  • Rottnest Island #1: It’s a start
  • Leetown to Auchterarder
  • CSI Halifax
  • Hello Sailor…
  • “The Poste Restante”
  • Going Postal: The great family rift.
  • All the girls love a soldier
  • In Old Hobart Town
  • Dorothy Dyson Dances
  • Joseph Dyson the Elder: The Respectable one
  • Are you my Mummy?
  • Stuffed
  • Stones in Cumberland
  • Twenty-one Children
  • Too outrageous a coincidence?
  • A Dark Deed in a Damp Land
  • Van Diemen’s Land
  • The Lancashire Hotpot
  • An introduction to the Dysons

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warpedtime Alan Thompson @warpedtime ·
9 Feb

Okay, this was a surprise... A Photograph of WA's third Governor - Captain Picton Beete in later life. Retired a Major in the British Army and went to live in Canada!

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6 Feb

Canning Bridge will always be Hell's Gate. Then there was Dyson's Swamp..

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6 Feb

What's in a name? Check out http://ab.co/3ouB0D0 for the lowdown on InkiePinky Pineapple and other forgotten place names in #WesternAustralia #WeirdHistory #Heritage #Archives #Perth

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warpedtime Alan Thompson @warpedtime ·
12 Jan

Hey bureaucratic galaxy brains! WA birth registrations are composed of location ID, ID number and Year for a REASON. SOME OF US WERE NOT REGISTERED THE YEAR WE WERE BORN. #MyGovID

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