I sit, corrected.

Posted on February 22, 2007
Filed Under Australia - The land down under, Irony Anyone?, Stupidity and randomness |

My friend Stephen had brought to my attention that his “morbid” curiosity led him to search the last hanging at Freo Prison. You were correct, Stephen! Here’s what I found….

“The last person to be hanged at the gallows in Fremantle Prison was Eric Edgar Cooke, in 1964. Cooke was a serial killer, and although charged with, and tried for, only one murder, evidence plus his own voluntary confessions, indicate that he killed a number of others during his three or four year reign of terror in the suburbs of Perth.”

All of the information that I put on my last post was not researched, but re-told from the information the tour guide gave us. I must have misunderstood his point of “22 and a half years ago” to mean the last hanging but it was in fact, the last year that the gallows could be used before the death penalty was abolished in 1984.

For those who also have a morbid sense of curiosity, here are all of the hangings that took place between 1888 - 1984.

Name Crime Place Date
Long Jimmy Murder Fremantle 02/03/1889
Pres Arle Murder Fremantle 08/11/1889
Ah Chi Murder Fremantle 16/04/1891
Chew Fang Murder Fremantle 29/04/1892
Lyee Nyee Murder Fremantle 29/04/1892
Sin Cho Chi Murder Fremantle 29/04/1892
Young Quong Murder Fremantle 29/04/1892
Mahomet Goulam Murder Fremantle 02/05/1896
Jumna Khan Murder Fremantle 31/03/1897
De La Cruz Pedro Murder Fremantle 19/07/1900
Perez Peter Murder Fremantle 19/07/1900
Peters Samuel Murder Fremantle 9/09/1902
Psichitas Stelios Murder Fremantle 15/04/1903
Mailliat Fredrick Murder Fremantle 21/04/1903
Rocca(Rokka) Sebaro Murder Fremantle 7/07/1903
Ah Hook Murder Fremantle 11/01/1904
Mianoor Mohomet Murder Fremantle 4/05/1904
Espada Simeon Murder Fremantle 14/12/1905
Hagen Charles Murder Fremantle 14/12/1905
Marquez Pablo Murder Fremantle 14/12/1905
Sala Antonio Murder Fremantle 19/11/1906
DeKitchilan Augustin Murder Fremantle 23/10/1907
Smith Harry G. Murder Fremantle 23/03/1908
Oki Iwakichi Murder Fremantle 22/10/1908
Rendell Martha Murder Fremantle 6/10/1909
Robustelli Peter Murder Fremantle 9/02/1910
Smart Alexander Murder Fremantle 7/03/1911
Smithson David H Murder Fremantle 25/07/1911
Spargo Charles Murder Fremantle 1/07/1913
Odgers Charles H. Murder Fremantle 14/01/1914
Sacheri Andrea Murder Fremantle 12/04/1915
Rosland Frank Murder Fremantle 12/03/1923
Rennie Roystan Murder Fremantle 2/08/1926
Coulter William Murder Fremantle 25/10/1926
Trefene Phillip J. Murder Fremantle 25/10/1926
Milner John Sumpter Murder Fremantle 21/05/1928
Hulme Clifford Murder Fremantle 3/09/1928
Fanto Antonio Murder Fremantle 18/05/1931
Smith John T Murder Fremantle 13/06/1932
Tapci Karol Murder Fremantle 23/06/1952
Thomas Robert J. Murder Fremantle 18/06/1960
Fallows Mervyn Murder Fremantle 6/06/1961
Robinson Brian W Murder Fremantle 20/01/1964
Cooke Eric Murder Fremantle 26/10/1964

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