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Double Trap : The Last Public Hanging in Canada

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1550025716
ISBN-13 9781550025712
Publisher Dundurn Group Ltd
Imprint Dundurn Group Ltd
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Nov 3rd, 2005
Print length 248 Pages
Weight 432 grams
Dimensions 22.80 x 15.20 x 1.00 cms
Ksh 2,400.00
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In 1868, a man who robbed and killed a farmer and his family was hanged in Goderich. It was the last public hanging in Canada.

A dozen years before the Black Donnellys were butchered at Lucan, Ontario, another murderous rampage took place a few miles away. On June 6, 1868, three men robbed and killed a rich farmer, his wife, and her unborn child. They concocted an alibi, stuck to it, and almost got off. In fact, two of them did.

The third, Nicholas Melady, went to prison and fell in love with a beautiful woman in a nearby cell. There to entrap him, she listened, learned, and led him to the gallows. When he was hanged in Goderich, hundreds watched, but thousands were late for the spectacle. They were bitterly disappointed because they had missed the last public hanging in Canada.


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