Behind the Scenes 

Constable Edwin May said he was a native of London, and arrived in Queensland In 1866, when he was a youth. He gravitated from the...

George Rope and George Pitt As with most gaols in Australia, they were provided with  gallows. The gallows were of a standard size and...

Dr Charles Hebbert, (1918 Merchant Seaman Surgeon photograph) 1856-1925 A chilling connection between Armidale, NSW and the infamous...

"THE HAIRY MAN " At Armidale, a man named John Burns (alias Shields) was brought before the Court on a charge of larceny, and remanded...

George Murray Dunn was born around 1849 in Londonderry, Ireland to Robert and Sarah Dunn. By 1868 he had qualified as a solicitor and...

Joseph was 43 when he was found dead in 1882. He was born in England on the 1839 and at the time of his death was a clerk at the Central...

John was born in County Wexford in Ireland in 1837, the son of James Merrin and Mary Anne Larkin. He lived in a place called Saltmills, a...