Site 4 - Courthouse Hotel

On the Monday evening of 10 February, 1879, Mr Edwin Living, the Teller at the Bank of New South Wales in Jerilderie, stopped at the Lauriston Hotel to rest his horse while on the way to Deniliquin to report the raid on Jerilderie by the Kelly Gang. 

While at the hotel, Mr Living agreed to leave the ‘Jerilderie Letter’ with Mr Hanlon for him to copy and to be picked up upon his return. Mr Living continued on to Deniliquin, and was then summoned to Melbourne the following day.

On Thursday, 13 February, 1879 Mr Living called into the Lauriston Hotel on his return to Jerilderie from Melbourne, and persuaded Mr Hanlon to hand him both the “Jerilderie Letter” and the copy that Mr Hanlon had made. Much to the disgust of Mr Hanlon, the copy he had written out was never returned to him, as promised.