1826: Property Crimes, Not Murder: Seven Men Hanged in Hobart in a Single Morning
On 15 September 1826, seven convicts, George Brace, John McFarlane, James Edwards, Thomas Balfour, John Dadd, John Clark and Patrick Brown, were hanged together in Hobart, the second of three mass executions carried out that month under Chief Justice John Pedder. Unlike the seven hanged just two days earlier for murder, not one of this group had killed anyone. Read more →
1866: The Sussex Street Mystery: A Dog Walk Leads to a Severed Head in Sydney
Eleven-year-old James Kirkpatrick was walking his dog behind Sussex Street in Sydney in September 1866 when he stumbled on a woman’s severed head half buried in a rubbish heap near Ebsworth’s tweed factory and Barker’s flour mills. Read more →
1890: The Birth of the Queen of Crime: Agatha Christie, 1890
On this date in 1890, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, England, the woman who would become Agatha Christie and the best selling novelist in history after the Bible and Shakespeare. Read more →
