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Fremantle: 1844

June. First shipment of horses left for India.

First execution of a white person. John Gavin tried 3 April and sentenced to be hanged and suspended in chains, which sentence carried out 6 April.

References and Links

Hutchison, David 2007, Many Years a Thief, Wakefield Press. [novel about John Gavin]

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