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On This Day in True Crime History
1856·Michael Casey Hanged at Oatlands for a Brutal Assault with Intent to Murder
1858·Matthew Burns Hanged at Avoca for Assault in a Botched Double Execution
1861·Nathaniel Ruby Hanged at Melbourne Gaol for the Murder of a Fellow Miner at Tarnagulla
1919·The Fitzroy Vendetta Erupts: Shots Fired into a Sly-Grog Shop, Squizzy Taylor Acquitted
1944·The Cowra Breakout: Bloodiest Mass Prison Escape of World War II
1991·Sir Terence Lewis, Queensland Police Commissioner, Convicted of Corruption
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