January 1, 1831 - Malachi Martin
His case stands out in the colonial Australian record less for its scale than for its particulars — a single act of violence whose legal proceedings drew attention to the rough conditions and limited institutional reach of mid-nineteenth-century Irish immigrant communities in Australia. Malachy Martin (Irish: Máel Ó Máirtín, also Malachi Earl Martin; c. 1831 – 24 December 1862) was an Irish-born Australian murderer.
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Malachy Martin (Irish: Máel Ó Máirtín, also Malachi Earl Martin; c. 1831 – 24 December 1862) was an Irish-born Australian murderer. In 1862, he was convicted of the murder of Jane Macmanamin, for which he was executed the same year. He was later found responsible for the killing of his wife's first husband, William Robinson, and is suspected to have been involved in the disappearance of two travellers and the killing of an Aboriginal teenager.
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