Merry go round bankers Glen Waverley sports
Copy of photograph showing men seated and standing around table under tent. On reverse is adhered note reading in part "Revenue from sports behind Mountain View Hotel to pay hospital costs for young Moylan who was hurt in mine accident opposite hotel." At the time the establishment was called Moylan's Mountain View Hotel.
Although the Library's catalogue cautiously gives the date as "1910s?" for this image, it may be earlier and the context of "young" Moylan's injury tragically different.
To quote from an article in the Geelong Advertiser, 22 Jan 1896:
"The city coroner to-day investigated the circumstances surrounding the Black Flats tragedy, when Mrs Moylan, the wife of a local publican, killed her little boy and dangerously injured her little girl... The mother was unfit to be present, and a certificate was put in from Dr Shields, gaol doctor, to the effect that she was in a dazed condition, and unable to give evidence. Her husband testified that after hearing the children screaming he saw his wife with a hammer in her hand."
More background detail can be found in a Leader article from 25 January, 1896.
Image sourced from Monash Public Library Service, held at Monash Federation Centre. ID.411
Merry go round bankers Glen Waverley sports
Copy of photograph showing men seated and standing around table under tent. On reverse is adhered note reading in part "Revenue from sports behind Mountain View Hotel to pay hospital costs for young Moylan who was hurt in mine accident opposite hotel." At the time the establishment was called Moylan's Mountain View Hotel.
Although the Library's catalogue cautiously gives the date as "1910s?" for this image, it may be earlier and the context of "young" Moylan's injury tragically different.
To quote from an article in the Geelong Advertiser, 22 Jan 1896:
"The city coroner to-day investigated the circumstances surrounding the Black Flats tragedy, when Mrs Moylan, the wife of a local publican, killed her little boy and dangerously injured her little girl... The mother was unfit to be present, and a certificate was put in from Dr Shields, gaol doctor, to the effect that she was in a dazed condition, and unable to give evidence. Her husband testified that after hearing the children screaming he saw his wife with a hammer in her hand."
More background detail can be found in a Leader article from 25 January, 1896.
Image sourced from Monash Public Library Service, held at Monash Federation Centre. ID.411