David Young, an ex-convict and a Vandemonian, was looking for work near Daylesford in the Victorian Goldfields in 1864. It was there that Margaret Graham, a 17-year old bride, was brutally murdered in her bed. And it was there that the hunt was on to track down her murderer.
David Young had camped near her cottage and had briefly flirted with Margaret. That was enough! The case was made to fit. He was charged, tried …and hanged; the first at the Castlemaine Gaol. But other and more likely suspects abounded... Judicial Murder lays out the case for David Young’s exoneration.
Softcover book
Published: 2015
486-pages |
