Author: COLONY OF VICTORIA.
Title: Execution of Criminals. Report of The Sheriff, Relative to Recent Executions at Her Majesty's Gaol , Melbourne.
Description: First Edition; F'cap Folio; pp. 6; report on three executions criminals Gibbs, Edward Hitchcock and Von See, the Gibbs report being notable because of a breaking rope and the need to hang the man a second time, the Hitchcock was reported in newspapers "suffering some four or five minutes", the report bound in its original sewn printed blue wrapper, very good copy. Melbourne; John Ferres, Government Printer; 1858.

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