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"Armed robbery, murder, lies, treachery, "confession", and a legal tangle that ended in a sensational trial followed by three executions : these are some of the chief ingredients in this grim account of a callous crime committed on the New Zealand goldfields in 1866. This is also an unusual study of the mental make-up of the four lying, brutal Londoners who were responsible for the crime ... Frank Clune traces the lives of the four criminals and shows what influences played an important part in shaping their twisted lives: there were the crowded Thames-side slums created by the Industrial Revolution ... the laws designed to punish rather than to reform ; the rotten prison hulks ; the transportation system ; and the mental cruelty of life in the prisons of the day."--Inside front cover.
A narrative history of the Burgess Gang and their greatest crime In the winter of 1866 New Zealands most notorious bushranger, Richard Burgess, knelt at a small desk in his Nelson prison cell, took up his quill pen and began to write.