Hanging Ned Kelly : Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of colonial Australia
Adams, Michael, 1970-2022
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When it came time to hang Ned Kelly on 11 November 1880, 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.
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Author:
Adams, Michael, 1970-, author
Imprint:
South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2022.©2022.
Collation:
xi, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9781922806406 (hardback)
Dewey class:
364.1552 ADA364.1552
Language:
English
Subject:
Upjohn, ElijahKelly, Ned, 1855-1880Kelly, Ned, 1855-1880 -- Death and burialExecutions and executioners -- Victoria -- History -- 19th centuryBushrangers -- Australia -- Victoria -- BiographyOutlaws -- Australia -- HistoryCriminals -- Australia -- HistoryVictoria -- History -- 19th centuryAustralia -- History -- 19th century
BRN:
54046
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