THE HANGMAN IS NEVER LATE - Three Centuries of Newfoundland Justice

St. John's, Newfoundland: Creative Book Publishing, 2001. Book. Illus. by Maurice Fitzgerald;. Very Good+. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. (xiii) 229 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Maurice Fitzgerald. A trunk shipped C.O.D. from Toronto to Argentia turns out to contain a human body. A newspaper editor is ambushed and both his ears are cut off. A ship sinks and seventy-six passengers are believed to be victims of fate - until a diver discovers the grisly truth. The history of Newfoundland is full of chilling tales of murder and mayhem... The Chapters are: The Eighteenth Century: The Murdering Cobhams; A Harbour Main Murder; Murder at Fermeuse; Court Judge Murdered; Hanged for Killing a Cow; Harbour Front Murder; Mutiny at St John's. Early Nineteenth Century: Treason in St. John's; Murder on Southside Rd; Murderer with a Conscience; Whatever Happened to Mary James; Child Murdered at Harbour Grace; Edward Jordan Hanged; Murder in Bonne Bay; The Duel; Mutiny Murder Near St Pierre; Butchered at Harbour Grace; Catherine Snow; Bigotry Leads to Crime; Highway Man Hanged. Later Nineteenth Century: The Commerskie Mass Killings; Politician Murdered; Alfreda Pike; A Harbour Grace Double Murder; The Artist at HMP; Escape from HMP; Guillotine; Scrooge of Water Street; Sadistic Inmate Escapes HMP; Murder on Springdale Street; Triple Murder at Mundy Pond; Murdered in New Gower St Tavern. Early Twentieth Century: The Cape Broyle Murder; Harbour Main Graveyard; Policeman Attacked; Prison Escape; Newfoundlander Murdered in Jamaica; Assyrian Feud on Water Street; Murder Near Buchanan Street; Children Jailed; Who Was Jacques Millere; Newfoundlander Charged in New York; Smart Lawyer; The Killing of John Sears; Moonshiners; Triple Murder on Carter's Hill; Tom Beckett Hanged; New Year's Eve Murder at Corner Brook; Rum Runners; Newfoundland Rangers; Lake Family Murdered; The Bizarre Water St Cafe Killing; Water Street Riot; Alfred Beaton. Later Twentieth Century: Murder at Gander; Mary Allen Strangled; Murder at St Phillip's; Valdmanis; The Escape of Jim Robbins; The Sand Pits Murders; Constable Hooey Shot; Constable William Moss; The C.O.D. Murder; RCMP Officer Shot; Murdered on Prince of Wales Street; Child Kidnapped; The Murder of Mona Johnson. Justice Potpourri: Hangmen and Executioners; The Many Methods of Execution; Lawyers; Origins of the Term 'Admitted to the Bar'; Magistrates; Judgement Recovery; Problems with Witnesses; Penitentiary Conditions 1869 - 1932; and Early Newfoundland Justice..