Red Lion Hotel (Scarsdale)

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Red Lion Hotel
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Town Scarsdale
Known dates 1866-1884

The Red Lion Hotel was a hotel in Scarsdale, Victoria, <1866-1884>.

Site[edit | edit source]

The hotel was in Scarsdale.[1]

Background[edit | edit source]

History[edit | edit source]

In July 1866 a shot was fired through the hotel window:

"About eleven o'clock on the night of Friday last," reports the Ballarat Star, "a dastardly and dreadful act, though fortunately not attended with loss of life, was committed at Scarsdale, a musket loaded with large slugs or pellets being fired into Formby's Red Lion Hotel. The light in the bar, it appears, was not out at the time the weapon was fired, and Mr. Formby, who was in the bar, or at least at hand, ran hastily out in the direction from which the report proceeded, and, as he has sworn, succeeded in identifying a man named George Waite, with a gun in his hand, at a short distance from the hotel. Next morning, Formby reported the matter to Constable M'Cormick of the Scarsdale station, and Waite was forthwith arrested.
On examination the effects of the gunshot are really astounding. The shot seems to have been aimed for the bar window, and it spread to a distance of four by six feet, some of the slugs going through the glass, others through the window frame, and a few through the side of the building near the window. The strongest portion of the shot then went right through two wooden partitions inside the hotel. One slug, after having gone through all already described, went out through a dish that was on a plate rack in the adjoining apartment. Happily there was no one in the way of the shot, all so widely scattered as it was, and it having made, too, no fewer than nineteen perforations. A few of the slugs have been secured by the police. The bits of lead in question do not appear to have ever been round, but rather to have been made like that class of shot known by the name of slugs."[2]

Community Involvement[edit | edit source]

  • In September 1870, the hotel was the venue for an inquest into the death of a Chinese man found hanging in a paddock owned by the publican, Thomas Formby.[1]


The People[edit | edit source]

Publicans[edit | edit source]

Hotel staff[edit | edit source]

  • In July 1867, Norah Tracey, a hotel employee, charged William Martin, an iron founder, as being the father of her infant child.[4]

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References[edit | edit source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1870 'NEWS AND NOTES.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 28 September, p. 2. , viewed 06 Oct 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article218798801
  2. 1866 'COUNTRY NEWS.', The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), 28 July, p. 22. , viewed 26 Jun 2023, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138048147
  3. 1866 'POLICE.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 10 May, p. 3. , viewed 15 Aug 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112862024
  4. 4.0 4.1 1867 'POLICE.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 4 July, p. 4. , viewed 06 Oct 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112876193
  5. 1871 'POLICE.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 14 December, p. 4. , viewed 06 Oct 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197574893
  6. 1872 'SCARSDALE POLICE COURT.', The Ballarat Courier (Vic. : 1869 - 1880; 1914 - 1918), 13 June, p. 4. , viewed 06 Oct 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article191573840
  7. "SCARSDALE LICENSING MEETING." The Ballarat Courier (Vic. : 1869 - 1882; 1914 - 1918) 5 December 1878: 4. Web. 5 Sep 2018 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article210371123>.
  8. 1879 'POLICE.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 11 December, p. 4. , viewed 12 Jan 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199821616
  9. 1881 'POLICE INTELLIGENCE.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 14 December, p. 4. , viewed 11 Jan 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202597435
  10. 1883 'SCARSDALE LICENSING COURT.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 6 December, p. 4. , viewed 15 Jan 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201619455
  11. 1884 'SCARSDALE.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 16 December, p. 4. , viewed 01 Jan 2024, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207630518


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