Christchurch Crimes and Scandals 1876-99

ISBN: 9781927145517

Author: Geoffrey Rice    Publisher: Canterbury University Press

The Boxing Day Riot of 1879 when a parade of Orange Lodge members was attacked by a mob of Irish Catholic navvies swinging axe-handles, a slander case involving one of the city's richest merchants, the famous Severed Hand Mystery of 1885 ... Following on from his first volume, Christchurch Crimes 1850-1875: SCandal and Skuldugge...