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EXECUTIONS AT CAMPBELL STREET

Last execution 1946

Capital Punishment abolished in Tasmania 1968    

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1857
Alexander Cullen (Alias “Scotty”)  for the murder of Elizabeth Ross
James Kelly – Murder (brothers-for the murder of (Coleman Laughlin)
Timothy Kelly – Murder
William Maher – Murder
1858
Thomas Callinan – Murder
Thomas Gault – Felonious Assault

 

1859
*John King – Murder for shooting his de facto wife
*William Davis-axe murderer
*Peter Haley (Alias “Black Peter”) Bushranger
*William Ferns (Alias ”Flowers”) Bushranger
*Daniel Stewart (Alias “ Wingy”) Bushranger
Robert Brown – Carnal Knowledge

Bernard Donohoe- wounding

1860
John Nash – Robbing/Shooting
Julius Baker – Shooting with Intent
Martin Lydon – Indecent Assault
1862
Margaret Coghlin – Murder of her husband John
Charles Flanders – Murder of Mary Ann Riley at Bagdad
William Mulligan – Rape at pistol point of a married woman
1863
Hendrick Witnalder – Sodomy  last person executed for this crime
 1864
Robert McKavor – Robbery under arms of Edward Conningsby
1865
William Griffiths – Murder of the Johnson children at Glenorchy
1875
Job Smith – Rape  of Margaret Ayres
1878
Richard Copping – Murder  of his unfaithful girlfriend
1883
James Ogden – Murder (both men executed for the murder of
James Sutherland – Murder James Wilson and Alfred Holman
1884
Henry Stock – Murder of his wife Elizabeth and her daughter by Another man
1887
Timothy Walker – Murder

1891
Arthur Cooley – Murder  of Mary Ogilvy of Richmond
1914
Joseph Belbin – Murder  of 16 year old Margaret Ledwell
1922
George Carpenter – Murder  of Thomas Filbee Carpenter, Edward Duncombe and Trooper Henderson
1946
Frederick Henry Thompson – Murder of Evelyn Mary Maughan

* all five were 

 executed 13th February 1859
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