Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Supreme Court Fire of 1968
In the early hours of 1 September 1968, as the building’s caretaker was doing his rounds, an unemployed alcoholic named David Brooks, slipped through the doors of Queensland’s historic law courts, designed by colonial architect F D G Stanley in the 1870s.
Resentful of the police and the justice system for his habitual arrests, Brooks made his way to the judges’ chambers, drove a knife into an associate’s desk and scribbled the note ‘judge not lest you be judged, sinner’. He then set the building alight.
By the time the fire was brought under control, much of the building was in ruins. The Supreme Court Library’s books were seriously damaged by the fire, smoke and water – as were the portraits hanging in the Judges’ Hall.
The arsonist was apprehended within three days of the fire, and convicted within three months of the crime.