Book Description

Tamworth is a large city on the Liverpool Plains, in northers New South Wales, where from the very beginnings of settlement, savagery reigned between settlers and First Nations. The town grew rapidly and so did the needs for law and order. Developed by the Australian Agricultural Company (a private company) on the south side of the town the other section was was north of the river which the Governsment controlled. As a major center the town built a large gaol which housed many vivious criminals. Five ment were hanged within the walls, all for murder. Included in this group was a double execution. All but one was hanged by the state hangman Robert Rice Howard, known as 'Nosey Bob'. This book is fully researched by Helen Cottee and illustrated with many photographs, signatures, drawings and plans of buildings and crime scenes. Each chapter, where available, finish with the family trees of those executed and of their victims. It is bound to appeal to anyone interested in the dark side.