Introduction to MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY
Into the DEATH of James Ossian McPHERSON
alias Robert BLAKE

Died 13 February, 1911

by Edna MacPHERSON SABATO

James McPHERSON, the Bushranger, known as The Wild Scotchman, came to Australia as a boy of 13 years. So much has been written about him, I won't go into further details, except to say he must have known, before he left Scotland, about another James McPHERSON, who, in the 1700s, translated the Ossian Poems, about which, also, a lot has already been written.

 

James McPHERSON named his first-born son - James Ossian McPHERSON. He was born at Cambridge Downs, Hughenden, 10 May 1882. He died in Cooktown Hospital, 13 February, 1911, aged 29.

Cause of Death:-- "Spear thrust to (Right) chest - Haemorrhage to (Right) Lung."

I imagine James Ossian McPHERSON used an alias, to try to avoid explanations about his father's notoriety. -------

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