Colonial Secretary’s Office, Melbourne, 26th November, 1853.

ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.
ARE WARD of £100 is hereby offered for the apprehension of Robert Roberts, alias Big Bob, who is charged with having, on the 21st instant, in the City of Melbourne, murdered Eliza McKeown.
DESCRIPTION OF MURDERER.
Name—Robert Roberts, alias Big Bob.
Age—Thirty years.
Height—Five feet nine inches.
Size—Stout.
Hair—Dark.
Whiskers—Dark, very full.
Complexion—Reddish, very much sunburnt.
Visage—Full, high cheek bones.
Wore, when last seen, a dirk hairy pea coat over a dark cloth coat, cabbage-tree hat.
This man is well known to and was formerly a mate of a man named Frank Reed, a stonemason, residing near the Shepherd’s Arms, Collingwood. He is also well known in the neighbourhood of the Elephant and Castle Inn, Little Bourke-street, and was seen at the bar of that house shortly after the murder had taken place.
By His Excellency’s Command,
JOHN FOSTER.