The Maungatapu Mountain Murders

The Maungatapu Mountain Murders PDF Author: Richard Hill
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Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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The Maungatapu Mountain Murders

The Maungatapu Mountain Murders PDF Author: Richard Hill
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Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Murder on the Maungatapu

Murder on the Maungatapu PDF Author: Wayne Martin
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ISBN: 9781927145746
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A narrative history of the Burgess Gang and their greatest crime In the winter of 1866 New Zealands most notorious bushranger, Richard Burgess, knelt at a small desk in his Nelson prison cell, took up his quill pen and began to write.

Confessions of Richard Burgess

Confessions of Richard Burgess PDF Author: Richard Burgess
Publisher: Raupo
ISBN: 9780589014605
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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A Cold Wind Down the Grey

A Cold Wind Down the Grey PDF Author: Wendy M. Wilson
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ISBN: 9781775220695
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages :

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He's the police inspector who failed to stop a murder, and he can't forget it.THE WORST MASS MURDER IN NEW ZEALAND HISTORYIn 1866, five men were murdered on the Maungatapu Track near Nelson, New Zealand by a merciless gang of ex-convicts from the goldfields of Australia. The gang was after the gold carried by the victims. When the men failed to arrive at their destination, a massive search for bodies was undertaken. Meanwhile, the killers, known as the Burgess gang, were arrested and held in the Nelson gaol until the bodies were discovered in shallow graves. A GANG WHO HANGED FOR THEIR CRIMESWith a confession from one of the gang members who turned Queens's Evidence, three of the gang members were tried and hanged. But before the murders on the Maungatapu, they had murdered a young surveyor in Greymouth. The leader of the gang, Richard Burgess, gave a deathbed confession, widely seen as an attempt to blame the man who had turned on the gang, that included a description of the death of the surveyor. A POLICE INSPECTOR WHO COULDN'T LET IT GOInspector William Henry James, an Englishman who had learned his trade in Victoria, Australia, oversaw the Police Camp in Greymouth. Before the murders in Nelson, he knew the gang was in town and forced them to leave. Too late he discovered a murder had already taken place in his town. But one gang member remained in Greymouth, and Inspector James made it his mission to prove that man's guilt and to bring him to justice.

Australasian Bibliography

Australasian Bibliography PDF Author: Public Library of New South Wales
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Category : Australasia
Languages : en
Pages : 1280

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Banking Under Difficulties

Banking Under Difficulties PDF Author: George Ogilvy Preshaw
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Banking Under Difficulties

Banking Under Difficulties PDF Author: G. O. Preshaw
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Murders on Maunga-tapu

Murders on Maunga-tapu PDF Author: Frank Clune
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Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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"Armed robbery, murder, lies, treachery, "confession", and a legal tangle that ended in a sensational trial followed by three executions : these are some of the chief ingredients in this grim account of a callous crime committed on the New Zealand goldfields in 1866. This is also an unusual study of the mental make-up of the four lying, brutal Londoners who were responsible for the crime ... Frank Clune traces the lives of the four criminals and shows what influences played an important part in shaping their twisted lives: there were the crowded Thames-side slums created by the Industrial Revolution ... the laws designed to punish rather than to reform ; the rotten prison hulks ; the transportation system ; and the mental cruelty of life in the prisons of the day."--Inside front cover.

Practical Phrenology

Practical Phrenology PDF Author: A. S. Hamilton
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Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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More Tramps Abroad

More Tramps Abroad PDF Author: Mark Twain
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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