George Melville

The One Eyed Tiger of Little Bourke Street

2 September 2024
Season 4
Episode 1
 Locked up with History

Cecilia Curtain is one our prisoners at Geelong Gaol, being incarcerated there in 1893 as part of one of her many sentences. She has always fascinated me with her eye patch over her right eye, wondering what had happened to her to cause such an injury. I will tell you what I think during the…

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The Body in the Window

19 March 2023 Executions, History

In July 1853, a group of bushrangers came up with an audacious plan to rob the McIvor Private Gold Escort as it left the goldfields to meet up with the Government escort to Melbourne. Although the heist was originally successful, the plan led to the deaths of four of the men, three by execution and…

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The Body in the Window

19 March 2023
Season 3
Episode 1
 Locked up with History

At the height of the Victorian Gold Rush, a bold plan was made by a group of bushrangers to hold up the Private Gold Escort carrying its bounty to the Melbourne Treasury from the McIvor goldfields in 1853. The robbery and subsequent trial ended in the sentence of death for three men and caused another…

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