'Nosey Bob' Howard
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Robert Rice Howard was an Australian executioner. He was employed as a hangman for the colony of New South Wales from 1875, initially as an assistant hangman. Howard held the position of senior execut
'Nosey Bob' Howard, New South Wales hangman.
Andrew George Scott ('Captain Moonlite").
Thomas Rogan.
Howard and his assistant stretching the rope as part of the preparation for an execution (published in The Bulletin, 31 January 1880).
Mount Rennie rape case
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The Mount Rennie rape case is the only gang rape in Sydney, Australia, in the 1880s that led to a full conviction of at least some of the participants involved in the crime—young larrikins of the "Wat
'Nosey Bob' Howard
…By the first week of January 1887, however, Howard's tally increased by the addition of a further four names. In November 1886 eleven young men were tried for the gang-rape of sixteen year-old Mary Jane Hicks on 9 September 1886, in bushland near the suburb of Waterloo (a location known as Mount Rennie). The trial was…
George Duffy, aged 18 years
Joseph Martin, aged 17 years
William Boyce, aged 20 years
Robert George Read, aged 19 years