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Dance Halls of Early Victoria,
1859-1866
 
 
 

Transcription Of Court Case

P.7

Thomas Pattrick
I am the owner of the House known as the Dance House—I have noticed the house particulary since the first instant was never open except on one particular night after half past eleven o. clock at night on that occasion it was closed not later than fifteen minutes before twelve. I was particular in taking notice expecting that complaints might be made—no one has complained to me of the house. I had frequently cautioned the defendants to be careful that if they were not they would have complaints made against the house. I live just above the house there is a vacant place of forty four feet between the Dance House and where I live—and I never hear any noise after I go to bed. I have no interest in the business carried on in the building no interest further than receiving my fifty dollars rent—I have never heard such bad language in the music Hall complained of as I have heard from David Harts mouth—at the Cheap Johns in Government Street. His languate has been most blasphemous. I have often heard him.
Sigd THOMAS PATTRICK

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