![]() ![]() The True Story of Bushrangers Frederick Wardįirst published by Oneworld Publications 2013 Hanging was probably too quick a death for him! Includes Contents page, prologue, epilogue, author's note, bibliography and index. A thoroughly researched book about the first person to be arrested as the result of telecommunications technology, a lying selfish murderer who didn't want his relationship with his mistress to become public and so poisoned her, leaving her to die painfully, and her children motherless. He served time on board the 'filthy, vermin-infested' prison hulk 'Retribution' at Woolwich, before being transported to Australia then returning to England 24 years later a wealthy man. As the story unfolds it turns out that Tawell was convicted of forgery years before. Soon, Quaker wannabe John Tawell is arrested on circumstantial evidence for the poisoning of Sarah Hart, who would turn out to be his mistress and mother to two of his children. On New Year's Day 1845, a message is delivered via the telegraph wires laid beside the railway tracks between Slough and Paddington stations "A murder has just been committed at Salt Hill and the suspected murderer was seen to take a first-class ticket for London by the train which left Slough at 7:42 p.m. ![]()
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