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Cemetery Conversations ISSUE 35 — AUGUST 2009 Cemetery Conversations THE NEWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF ST. KILDA CEMETERY I N C . THE CRIMINAL WHO NEVER COMMITTED A CRIME me, outside it would be man without imagination might Part II from the May 2009 issue of Cemetery Conversations... considered art and rather have said that o. 13 was wonderful in the mental, but not dangerous. A Sculptor in Basalt. circumstances. What is the Mr. Panton, however, had man*s story? What is his imagination, and in addition INSIDE THIS ISSUE: It was magistrate’s day at prison history?” some considerable knowledge Pentridge, and Mr. Panton, P.M., of art. “I should li(e to see this They had to look it up because man,” he said, “and have a THE CRIMINAL 2 whose official activities had W H O N E V E R brought him often into contact they had forgotten the original tal( with him.” So the image COMMITTED A CRIME…PART II with strange men and interesting sin. In later years the prisoner maker, who was such an situations in earlier days, was on had treated the regulations iconoclast with regulations, concerning rock carvings and was brought in. CLOSING THE 3 his first official visit to the prison. S T . K I L D A As he sat in the governor’s room misappropriation of knives and CEMETERY: “Where did you study SURVIVING THE entered a warder with the other things that might be SCARE OF ‘68 sculpture?” the magistrate information that o. 13 had been convertible into graving tools asked. at it again, and that they had as no self-respecting prisoner FORTHCOMING 4 “)ere, sir in Pentridge,” T O U R S #caught him red-handed.% I have should. Instead of treating answered o. 13, seriously, as called the prisoner o. 13 bluestone with spaller and if the fine arts were something because it is said to be such an knapping hammer o. 13 had THE CASE OF 4 in which penal establishments ANE GARDNER omen of luck ' the sort of luck wished only to carve odd things specialised. that fre(uently came his way. out of it in utter defiance of “,ut you must have had prison regulations; and prison lessons in the beginning?” “Dear me! Dear me!” said the regulations are solemn things “I had lessons about reading governor wearily, “the man is in Pentridge. The curious point and all that in school, sir,” he incorrigible quite hopeless.” was that o. 13’s defiance of said, “but I too( to brea(ing “We caught him with this,” the regulations was always due the regulations here because I e)plained the warder, placing a to the same passionate longing couldn*t help it. I*m sorry small unfinished bust carved in to carve something in stone, about it, sir, but I had to do it.” which the policies of prisons do ) bluestone upon the table, “And “Suppose that I can arrange to these two prison (nives, stolen not encourage. Breaking get you the proper tools and a and worn to the haft, as you see, bluestone was industry; shed set apart, where you may www.psrs.biz sir, with the carving of those silly carving it was offence. In wor( at this without any fear of everything else but his silly tion ( tion things.” the regulations, would you li(e FRIENDS OF ST. KILDA “)e has bro(en the regulations habit of caricature he was a CEMETERY INC. it?” again and again in this way,” the model prisoner, yet the want of (REG NO. A0038728 “.h, I don*t thin( the governor governor e)plained. “)e has a model was this chief ABN 69 718 923 799) would let you sir,” said o. 13, been punished so often that he is misfortune. Through this gravely. “/ou see, I*ve been a simply imposing his own sentence particular kink in a character bad lot, and I don*t stand well PO Box 261 imprisonment for life.” otherwise amiable, he had ST. KILDA VIC 3182 with the warders. 0hey managed to accumulate a AUSTRALIA wouldn*t have it.” Mr. Paton was interested. “It may sentence which no human Phone: (03) 9 31 6832 be a crime,” he said, “to do this being could reasonably hope to sort of thing in prison, but, believe live long enough to serve. A 1Continued on page 22 email: info&fos(c.org ,ebsite: ,,,.fos(c.org A Publishing Solutions and Research Services produc Services Research and Solutions APublishing Cemetery Conversations Page 2 THE CRIMINAL WHO NEVER COMMITTED A CRIME...CONTINUE D who is still living, was the before, in prison, the 1Continued from page 12 model for that infant on the sculptor had seen the Finding a Model. summit of the fountain in picture of a famous piece of Statuary ,orner. statuary, “0he Angel of Mr. Panton had his own Cawnpore”4the pitying ideas about the situation. This confirmed criminal, who figure brooding over the One of them was to see and had never committed a fateful well of the Indian interest Mr. Graham Berry, crime until he came in Mutiny. It seems to have then Premier of Victoria, who contact with the regulations, made a lasting impression agreed that o. 13 should was pardoned and released upon him. 0ou have the have every facility for from Pentridge. -ad the suggestion of it even in the “While the State was carrying out a piece of work regulations been sentient poise of those birds about in the pardoning which he had in mind and and possessed e)pression the fountain. humour, full of that longed to attempt. One they might have said, #3ood expansive glow difficulty was to get a model. enough for him, too! )e That is the story. The last An infant was particularly deserved it!” word to be said of the artist which follows a good desired. who so strangely came to his deed done, it forgave .hile the State was in the own was that he never lost itself also for all “Would not the wife of one of pardoning humour, full of his distrust of the law, and the warders, who has a that e)pansive glow which never admitted much those woeful, wasted baby, bring it along some follows a good deed done, it respect for it. Though years in the life of afternoon as a model?” Mr. forgave itself also for all always interested in the the innocent man it Panton asked. those woeful, wasted years activities of his friends and had sent to prison”. “.h, no, sir,” said the poor in the life of the innocent neighbours, he declined to sculptor ; “you see, I*ve got a man it had sent to prison. 1oin the Prahran ,ommercial bad name for brea(ing the The first bit of work done by ,lub because that e)cellent regulations.” the sculptor after his release institution had so hedged was the Spring street itself about with an Mr. Panton mentioned the fountain. impenetrable cordon of self- incident that night at a control that whenever it Melbourne dinner-table, and The .eeping Angel. wished to do anything the wife of the unusual its own autocratic superintendent of police, That is almost the whole of regulations would not permit who was a guest, remarked, the story which, happily, had it to do so. “What a shame not to let the a good ending, for, in the poor fellow have the baby as words of romance, they Postscript2 And who was the a model!” married and lived happily 3ufus 4awes, the criminal “0hat*s very fine,” said Mr. ever afterwards. The artist who never committed a Panton; “but would you be was happy in the love of a crime and became a willing to ta(e your little dear wife and home, happy monumental mason5 -is nephew into a penal in the free employment as a name was .illiam .alter establishment in the same monumental sculptor, of his Tyrell Stanford 6181861818----80:80: circumstances?” gifts, and his craft. I have “Designed and Executed by Stanford and in the ne)t issue of Windsor” 4Grave of Thomas and “/es,” said the lady traced many of his Cemetery Conversations, Margaret Irwin at the St. /ilda ,emetery generously and memorials to the dead in the which features the sculpture by .illiam we’ll reveal Stanford’s letter Stanford 6,ofE #B% 18: emphatically. “0o9morrow, Melbourne and St. /ilda of complaint against the or whenever you wish it.” cemeteries, because a Trustees. favourite design was the So it happens that a canon representation of the 1Source5 0he Argus 25 Aug of the ,hurch of England, weeping angel. 0ears 1928 p102 Issue 35 — August 2009 Page 3 CLOSING THE ST. KILDA CEMETERY: SURVIVING THE SCARE OF ‘68 ,emetery is the final resting meeting was advertised little known, but place for other members of specially re(uesting all significant chapter in the family. house-holders to attend, “in St. /ilda ,emetery’s A order to emphatically history occurred in 1868 The push to close the St. protest against this invasion when there was an attempt /ilda ,emetery reflected the of their rights”. to close the ,emetery. This social attitudes of the era was the era of the that a cemetery positioned Patterson opened the Mc,ulloch government A in a built-up area close to meeting by reading the the longest serving ministry houses was pre1udicial to memorial 6petition: before when governments came their health. It was an the Town ,lerk read the and went at whim. attitude that continued until names which included well- at least the 1810s when the known residents such as In Buly 1868, a deputation 3rave of Sir Archibald Michie, one of same argument was used -on A Michie, Mr B B .ere, the memorialists who signed the consisting of the -on 3 petition to close the St.
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