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An Uncommon Hangman - The life and deaths of Robert 'Nosey Bob' Howard (Paperback)
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An Uncommon Hangman - The life and deaths of Robert 'Nosey Bob' Howard (Paperback)
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This is the story of Robert Rice Howard (1832-1906), the man known
as Nosey Bob. It is also an important chapter in the story of the
changing attitudes towards capital punishment in Australia, as the
country transformed from generally enthusiastic spectators at
executions into campaigners for the abolition of the death penalty.
These interconnected stories are told through the men, and the one
woman, who met Nosey Bob under the worst possible circumstances
between his first employment by the Department of Justice in 1876
and his retirement as the executioner for New South Wales in 1904.
Once a household name, Nosey Bob was the most infamous public
servant in Sydney: a noseless hangman who sparked fear and
fascination everywhere he went. Howard has only ever been cast as
an extra in someone else's play, making frightening appearances in
a felon's final scene on the gallows. Here, for the first time, he
has taken the lead.
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