A Fatal Error

How a terrible mistake cost a life and changed the law. OFFICIAL NOTIFICATIONS. [From today’s Government Gazette.] MEDICAL BOARD. – Henry Duckers and Robert James Hance, of Brisbane; and James Wilkinson, of Townsville, have been admitted as chemists and druggists. The Brisbane Courier, July 8, 1882. Sophia Jacobi’s baby James Francis Jacobi turned seven monthsContinue reading “A Fatal Error”

Constance and Emily

DEATH. MALLALIEU. —On the 21st June, at Adelaide-street, Constance Mallalieu, aged 10 years, eldest daughter of Alfred and Henrietta Mallalieu. [Manchester papers please copy.] On 19 June 1873, a group of young girls played with a skipping rope after school, on a hillside at the corner of Edward and Adelaide Streets. Two girls held theContinue reading “Constance and Emily”