VPRS 4966 Kelly Historical Collection - Part 2 Crown Law Department

This series consists of Crown Law Department records concerning the trial for murder and execution of Edward Kelly and the trial of Ellen Kelly. The records in this series were originally created and maintained within the record keeping systems documented in the PROV Collection as VPRS 30 and 264 and it is believed the records in the P0 consignment were received during 1939 as part of the transfer which included all of the criminal trial briefs created in 1880.The exceptions to this are the Capital Case File in unit 2 which was transferred to PROV in 1977 and the Cameron letter in unit 3 which is actually from the inward correspondence files of the Chief Secretary's Department and which ideally should be maintaind in VPRS 4967.The P1 consignment consists of the Copy Depositions for one of the two cases against Kelly, that of the murder of Constables Lonigan and Scanlon. It appears the documents were detached from that series prior to the formation of the Public Record Office Victoria and were subsequently obtained by a private collector. These documents were purchased at auction 13 October, 2003.