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A huge crowd for a hanging: the end of John Knatchbull

Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW (923.41/K67/2)   One of my very favourite letters in the collections of the State Library of NSW was written by a wool merchant by the name of Joseph Whitehead. In an 1838 letter to his uncle…

The murder of Joseph Luker

Smith's Weekly, 28 February 1920, p17 via Trove This morning on 2SER Breakfast, Dr Rachel Franks talked to Tess Connery about Australia's oldest cold case, the murder of Constable Joseph Luker, who was the first police officer killed in the line…