Dead Woman Walking: was an innocent woman hanged?
Book Details
Author(s)Allan Peters
PublisherBas Publishing
ISBN / ASINB00AZLLOX6
ISBN-13978B00AZLLOX2
Sales Rank512,852
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Since first publishing Elizabeth Woolcock’s tragic story – No Monument of Stone – extensive additional research by the author has uncovered much more evidence than was available at the time of his initial writing.
This later book – Dead Woman Walking – now contains that information. Information that perhaps one day may instigate an official investigation into the case and consequently lead to a posthumous pardon being granted for Elizabeth, for being denied access to fair and impartial justice at her trial in 1873, and thereby being unjustly convicted and executed for a murder she did not commit.
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From the Foreword:
Between May 1838, and November 1964, more than sixty people were legally put to death in South Australia. Each and every-one of these convicted persons has a tale to tell. None however is more horrific or tragic than that of Elizabeth Lillian Woolcock, nee Oliver, the one and only woman among them.
Elizabeth Woolcock was just twenty-five years of age when her life was brought to an abrupt halt on the gallows of the Adelaide Gaol. Since birth she had been stalked by more tragedy and misadventure than most people could possibly imagine. Yet, convicted by unsubstantiated gossip, innuendo, and misrepresentation, she unflinchingly faced her death and an eternity entombed in unhallowed soil on Murderers Row with no monument of stone to mark her grave.
This is Elizabeth Woolcocks own tragic story, and a significant part of Australian history. And though she died the death of a felon, the truth is she may well have been the innocent victim of circumstance.
This later book – Dead Woman Walking – now contains that information. Information that perhaps one day may instigate an official investigation into the case and consequently lead to a posthumous pardon being granted for Elizabeth, for being denied access to fair and impartial justice at her trial in 1873, and thereby being unjustly convicted and executed for a murder she did not commit.
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From the Foreword:
Between May 1838, and November 1964, more than sixty people were legally put to death in South Australia. Each and every-one of these convicted persons has a tale to tell. None however is more horrific or tragic than that of Elizabeth Lillian Woolcock, nee Oliver, the one and only woman among them.
Elizabeth Woolcock was just twenty-five years of age when her life was brought to an abrupt halt on the gallows of the Adelaide Gaol. Since birth she had been stalked by more tragedy and misadventure than most people could possibly imagine. Yet, convicted by unsubstantiated gossip, innuendo, and misrepresentation, she unflinchingly faced her death and an eternity entombed in unhallowed soil on Murderers Row with no monument of stone to mark her grave.
This is Elizabeth Woolcocks own tragic story, and a significant part of Australian history. And though she died the death of a felon, the truth is she may well have been the innocent victim of circumstance.
