| ISBN |
9781921401220 (pbk.) |
| Classification Number |
364.66 ADA |
| Author |
Adams, Simon, 1968- |
| Title |
The unforgiving rope : murder and hanging on Australia's western frontier [BK] |
| Publisher |
Crawley, W.A. : : UWA Press,, 2009. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The basest treachery and blackest ingratitude : Barrabong and Doodjeep versus the British Empire, 1840--Edward Bishop and the convict stain, 1854--Richard Bibby and the law of the frontier, 1859--'Great is our sin' : rape, sodomy and the hanging of Joseph McDonald, 1861--Vengeance is mine saith the Lord, the law and the 'treacherous natives', 1865--Bernard Wootton and the Fenian disease, 1867--Cannibalism and stolen children : the strange case of Mullagelly, 1873--'Wicked Orientals' and the new Fremantle Gallows, 1889--Murder in a Coolgardie Mosque, 1896--The market gardener, white Westralia and the Empire of the Rising Sun, 1908--Martha Rendell and the manufacture of a suburban monster, 1909--The unforgiving rope. |
| Colonial Western Australia was formed not only by adventurous sea captains, governors, and stoic pioneers, but also by murderers, thieves, rapists and the hangman. More than 150 people were hanged in Western Australia between 1840 and 1964. An exploration of Australian history through the lives, crimes & deaths of men and women. |
| Subject |
Hanging |
| Murder |
| Social history |
| Hanging -- Australia -- Western Australia -- History |
| Murder -- Australia -- Western Australia -- History |
| Hanging -- Western Australia -- History |
| Murder -- Western Australia -- History |
| Western Australia |
| Western Australia -- History -- 19th century |
| Western Australia -- Social conditions -- 19th century |
