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Malachi Martin (Australian murderer)
Malachy Martin (also Malachi Martin) (c.1831 – 24 December 1862) lived in South Australia in the 19th century and was convicted and executed for willful murder in 1862. Although in most official records his given name is written as “Malachi” it is clear that his parents actually gave him the traditional Irish form of the name, popularised through the veneration of St. Malachy, a twelfth-century Bishop of Amagh.〔Martin’s marriage certificate shows this spelling, while on that certificate he signed his name “Malacky” (1858 marriage certificate indexed by Births, Deaths and Marriages South Australia at Book 317, Page 541). On his petition to the Governor in December 1862 Martin signed his name “Malaky Martin” (Malachy Martin’s petition to the Governor & Executive Council of South Australia, GRG 24/6/1862/1215). In oral tradition the name is pronounced in a way that indicates it should be spelt “Malachy” rather than the Biblical “Malachi”. John Bowyer Bull, who had met Malachy, mentions him in his memoirs, and although he spells the name several ways, they are all closer to “Malachy” than to “Malachi” (J.B. Bull, unpublished manuscript ''The Life of John Bowyer Bull, The Australian Bushman & Explorer, 1838-1894'', PGR 507/3, pp 62-65).〕
==Early life==
Martin grew up around the Willunga district, south of Adelaide and in 1844, just before he turned 13, he was charged with theft while working at a post office at the settlement at Encounter Bay.〔Southern Australian, 5 July 1844〕 He was tried at Adelaide but found not guilty. Six days later, his mother, Mary, died in strange circumstances by drowning in a pond near the family farm. Although all witnesses stated that they had not observed anything to cause them to question her state of mind, the inquest into her death found that she had committed suicide “while labouring under temporary insanity" due to her distress over her son’s criminal trial. Her death was made even more tragic because she was heavily pregnant at the time.〔Southern Australian, 19 July 1844.〕
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