The Gun Alley Tragedy: Record of the Trial of Colin Campbell RossBrennan, T. C. (Thomas Cornelius)
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The Gun Alley Tragedy: Record of the Trial of Colin Campbell Ross
Brennan, T. C. (Thomas Cornelius)
Ross, Colin Campbell, 1892-1922 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Murder) -- Australia -- Victoria -- Melbourne
He got to the Eastern Arcade about a quarter to 9, and waited about
the Little Collins Street entrance until a little after 9, when he
was joined by Gladys Wain. They went into the saloon, and remained
there until half-past 10 or a quarter to 11. They came out into
Little Collins Street, went along Russell Street to Lonsdale Street,
along Lonsdale Street to King Street, where they remained talking for
about ten minutes, close to the girl’s home. He left her at about ten
minutes past 11, and went to Spencer Street, where he took train to
Footscray. He got to Footscray about fourteen minutes to 12. He there
took the tram, and on the tram he met a friend named Herbert Studd,
who introduced him to a man named James Patterson. He got off the
tram at the terminus, and walked from the terminus to his home with
a young fellow named Frederick George Bradley, who was a very casual
acquaintance living further along in Ross’s street. He reached home
about 12, his mother being still up. He went almost straight into the
room, where his brother Ronald was in bed, but awake, and went to bed.
He never left his room that night. His brother, Tom, who was working in
the neighbourhood, and had come back for breakfast, came into the room
about twenty minutes to 7 next morning. He himself had breakfast later
on with his mother and Ronald. He then went in to the Arcade, where he
was told by Stanley of the murder, and was later on interviewed by the
detectives. To them he gave offhand this account of his movements, not
with all these details as to meetings with persons, but exactly the
same account of his main doings on the previous day and night. Stanley,
in the meantime, had given to the detectives his own account of his
own and Colin’s movements, and it exactly corresponded with Colin’s
account, so far as the movements of the two impinged on one another.
In addition to that, the detectives later saw Gladys Wain and got her
independent account, and it, too, exactly coincided with Ross’s account.
Turning to his movements on January 5, Ross said that he was seen by
the detectives at 11 a.m., and detained until 7 p.m. About that there
is no doubt. From the Detective Office he went to Mrs. Linderman’s
(Gladys Wain’s mother), in King Street, saw there the Linderman family,
Mrs. Kennedy, his own mother, and Mrs. Tom Ross, his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Kennedy and his mother arriving soon after him. His mother and
Mrs. Kennedy left before him to go down to the “Age” Office. Mrs. Tom
Ross also left to go to the house of her mother (Mrs. Ballantyne),
some twenty minutes’ walk away, and about 9 he left and went to
Ballantyne’s, where he remained, with several others, until about
half-past 10, when he left, with his brother Stanley and others, to
catch the train at North Melbourne.
STRONG CORROBORATION.
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