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LIST OF EXECUTIONS AT THE ADELAIDE GAOL

Picture

Name of Executed

Date 

Crime

Gaol Location


​Joseph Stagg
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Ngarbi
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Wera Maldera

Thomas Donelly

James Yates

William Wright

William Bell

Tankawortya
Pilta Miltinda
Warretya
​Warretya


​John Seaver


​Malchi Martin

Elizabeth Woolcock



​William Ridgeway

Charles Streitman

Hugh Fagan

Jonathan Prest

William Burns

Mah Poo

William Brown


​George H. Lynch

Joshua Beard

Lollie Kaiser Singh

Thomas Horton

Albert Bonfield

Natalla Habbibulla

James Coleman

John Robbins

Hadji Khan

Carlos Bonello

Percival Budd

Alexander N Lee

William Francis

William Haines

Frederick Carr

Thomas Blyth

James M Watherston

Harold J. Box

Charles O'Leary

Alfred Coates Griffin

John Balaban


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​William Feast

Raymond Bailey
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Glen Sabre Valance

​18/11/1840
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01/08/1843
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29/03/1845

29/03/1847

05/09/1850

12/03/1853

27/12/1854

07/06/1861
07/06/1861
07/06/1861
07/06/1861


​11/03/1862


​24/12/1862

30/12/1863



​01/01/1874

24/07/1877

16/04/1878

16/07/1878

18/01/1883

10/11/1883

24/08/1894


​06/11/1895

10/07/1897

17/01/1900

12/05/1904

05/01/1905

16/11/1906

02/07/1908

16/03/1910

05/04/1910

05/05/1910

24/04/1919

15/07.1920

22/11/1927

16/12/1927

12/11/1929

09/01/1930

11/08/1938

26/04/1944

14/11/1946

22/03/1950

26/08/1953



​23/03/1956

24/06/1958

​24/11/1964


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​Murdered John Grafton 

Murdered Elizabeth Stubbs

Murdered George McGrath

Murdered an aboriginal man

Murdered John Mansforth

Murdered Man (unknown)

Murdered Augustus Valrecht

Murdered Mary Ann Rainbird and children Emma and Robert near Kapunda.  Only time we had multiple Executions on the same day.

Murdered Insp. Richard Pettinger in Government House.

Murdered Jane Mackineminen

Murdered Thomas Woolcock (only female to be hanged in S.A.)

Murdered Frederick Burt

Murdered Robert Woodhead

​Murdered Patrick Bannon

Murdered wife, Mary Prest

Murder of Henry Loton on ship

Murdered Tommy Ah Fook 

Murdered George Marowsky


​Murdered Donald McPhee

Murdered Walter Richards

Murdered Sunda Singh

Murdered wife, Florence Horton

Murdered Caroline Hindsall

Murdered wife, Edith Habibulla

Murdered P.C. Edward Ring

Murdered Robert Ownsworth

Murdered Said Mahomet

Murdered Norma Plush

Murdered Harold Jacques

Murdered wife, Muriel Lee

Murdered wife

Murdered Devina  Schmidt

Murdered wife, Maude Carr

Murdered wife, Sarah Blyth

Murdered Mary Nielsen (12 yrs)

Murdered Lance Brown

Murdered W. Ballard

Murder of Elsie Wheeler

Murder of Zora Kusic (also murdered wife, mother-in-law, and stepson)

Murdered Eunice Flora Gwynne

Murdered Thyra Bowman

​Murdered Richard Strang

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