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Entrance to the gaol, c. 1936 In the 1850s, the district where the gaol was subsequently located was known unofficially as "Boggo" or "Boggo Scrub", and by the late 1850s the track through the area was known as Boggo Road.
[5] [6] Austin became the last convict to be executed at Boggo Road Gaol and the last in Queensland, when in 1922 it became the first state in Australia and the first government in the British Empire to abolish the death penalty. The ghost of Austin is said to haunt the Boggo Road Gaol, particularly at night during storms. [2] [7]
Hanged at Boggo Road Gaol for the murder of Lee Chay Yuen in Townsville [63] August Millewski – 16 December 1907 – Hanged at Boggo Road Gaol for the murder of an Indian man, Wallum Nabby, near Nananga [64] Bismarck – 19 April 1909 – Indigenous. Hanged at Boggo Road Gaol for the murder of Janet Evitts at Jundah [65] [66]
The gaol was closed in 1903 after the prisoners were transferred to Boggo Road Gaol [5] and demolition commenced. Some of the hand-made bricks (using clay dug from pits in Queens Park [ 3 ] ) from the demolished structure were used to build the Boer Wall Memorial Gateway [ 4 ] at the Margaret Street end of East Creek Park near the Mother's ...
Patrick Kenniff (28 September 1865 – 13 January 1903) was an Australian bushranger who roamed western Queensland, Australia, with his brother James Kenniff (1869–1940). ). They were primarily cattle thieves, but the brothers were found guilty of murder and Patrick was hanged in Boggo Road Gaol in 1
Since the closure of Boggo Road Gaol in 1992, Townsville Correctional Centre is the longest continually operating Prison in Queensland. On 6 April 2015 it reached another milestone, the 125th anniversary of its establishment (6 April 1890) i.e. the date on which the building contractor Mr. Thomas Matthews accepted and signed the contract to ...
Dawson, Christopher; Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society (2008), The one and only Boggo Road : the history of a unique suburban street (1st ed.), Inside History (Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society), ISBN 978-0-9804174-1-8
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