viii, 201 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 22 cm
Contents
1. Transported for theft -- 2. Sydney Town -- 3. The gentle art of flogging -- 4. Back to Sydney -- 5. Th Governor and the editor -- 6. Drudges, prostitutes and free spirits -- 7. The finisher of the law -- 8. Ranging the roads -- 9. Around the circuit -- 10. The outlaws of the plains -- 11. Falling off the scaffold and falling in love -- 12. The bitter island -- 13. Sod huts and sodding blacks -- 14. Tearing down the system -- 15. Strange companions -- 16. A house on the green -- 17. The aristocrat and the child -- 18. The road to madness -- 19. Bedlam Point and Tarban Creek
Summary
Alexander Green dispatched 409 offenders in his official role of hangman and finisher of the law in the colony of New South Wales. A convicted thief, he arrived in Sydney in 1824 on a life sentence. Conditionally pardoned a year later, he soon became official flogger and assistant hangman, graduating to hangman-in-chief, a job he held for nearly thirty years
Analysis
Hangmen. Green, Alexander. New South Wales. Biographies
New South Wales. Social life, 1820-1850
Notes
Includes index
Original Cataloguing-in-Publication had Beckett, Richard as main entry