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Hanging Ned Kelly / Michael Adams.

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ISBN 9781922806406 (hbk.)
1922806404 (hbk.)
Author Adams, Michael, 1970- (author)
Title Hanging Ned Kelly / Michael Adams.
Cover title Hanging Ned Kelly : Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of colonial Australia.
Publisher and/or associated date/s South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2022.
©2022.
Description xi, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm.
Note Scheduled to be published September 2022.
Bibliography "The sources accompanying this book can be found online at affirmpress.com.au/publishing/hanging-ned-kelly"--page 371.
Summary When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to crap-carrier-turned-quack-doctor-turned-drunken-chicken-thief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kelly looks at the life and times, crimes and demise of Australia's most famous anti-hero from a new perspective: that of the 'rogue and vagabond' who finally put the noose around his neck. Here, Elijah Upjohn's tale becomes the rusty scalpel that slices open the underbelly of colonial Victoria. Written by Michael Adams, creator of the acclaimed podcast Forgotten Australia, this is an odyssey into an infernal underworld seething with serial killers, clueless cops, larrikin vigilantes, renegade reporters, racist settlers, furious fallen women and cunning waxworks showmen. Looming over them all: the deranged hangmen paid to execute convicted men and women - some of them innocent or unfairly condemned - in Melbourne before it was marvelous.
Subjects Kelly, Ned, -- 1855-1880
Upjohn, Elijah
Outlaws -- Australia
Criminals -- Australia
Bushrangers -- Victoria -- Biography
Hanging -- Australia -- History
Executions and executioners -- Australia -- History
Victoria -- History -- 19th century
Australia -- History -- 19th century
Call number 2022.219
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A0095800X 2022.219
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