By Kevin Morgan
In the early morning of latest Year's Eve 1921, the bare physique of 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke used to be present in Gun Alley, a dead-end lane off Melbourne's Little Collins road. She were raped and strangled. In an environment of public frenzy the police have been driven to discover a wrongdoer. 13 days later, saloonkeeper Colin Campbell Ross used to be charged along with her homicide. speedily convicted, and together with his appeals to raised courts rejected, Ross used to be hanged at Melbourne Gaol on 24 April 1922, protesting his innocence to the tip. whereas getting to know the case in 1995, writer Kevin Morgan stumbled upon a pale blue envelope containing serious proof: hair samples. in the course of the trial the prosecution had claimed that hairs came upon on Ross's blanket matched a pattern of Alma's hair. This was once the 1st time such forensic proof had introduced a conviction in Australia. re-evaluation by means of modern day specialists has confirmed the hairs don't fit. Gun Alley is the riveting tale of ways botched policework, trial by...
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It is a fallacy to suppose that murderers are fascinated by the scene of their crime and cannot resist returning to it. Has any lodger mysteriously kept to his room since Saturday morning under the excuse of an illness? c. Criminals are avid newspaper readers, particularly after they have committed an unusual crime. This desire for news is actuated both by fear and vanity. Has any lodger displayed any unusual interest in newspapers since Saturday last, by sending out for all editions, or going out to buy them?
Would such a man have dared to cross the wide sweep of Exhibition Street, with its arc lamps blazing all night, or Russell Street, also well-lighted? Would he blunder along looking haphazardly for a likely lane to drop the corpse? The psychological factor was strongly against such an hypothesis. So it was that two convictions were borne in upon us. 1. That the girl was strangled and her body washed not very far from Gun Alley. 2. That the person … knew the locality well. [The easement] could not have been seen from Little Collins Street by a stranger.
CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Page Acknowledgements 1 Errington 2 A schoolgirl 3 Until the day break 4 A popular sensation 5 Earning the reward 6 The search begins 7 Raising the stakes 8 ‘A great country’ 9 Crime chemist 10 Coroner’s Court 11 ‘Miss Matthews’ 12 The only remaining witness 13 Colin Ross 14 Queen of Fortune-Tellers 15 Susso 16 The trial begins 17 Unsettled weather 18 A tangible memento 19 All in the same sugar bag 20 Judgment 21 Alma 22 In the midst of life 23 Brennan appeals 24 ‘Don’t let them get you down-hearted’ 25 Piggott 26 Seeking reprieve 27 The mysterious woman 28 The myth of instant death 29 A dandy ‘D’ 30 Farewell 31 Execution 32 Brophy 33 Ghurka’s fortune An analysis of the evidence 34 Brennan’s book 35 Piggott recalls 36 The evidence of the hair Who killed Alma Tirtschke?
