Thomas John Griffin was a senior Queensland police officer who was executed in June 1868, after being found guilty of the double murder of two police officers, troopers John Power and Patrick Cahill,
Portrait of Thomas John Griffin in about 1863 (detail from a larger photograph).
Thomas John Griffin, photographed in about 1863.
The Clermont gold escort (seated l. to r.) Sergeant James Julian, Constable Patrick William Cahill, Constable John Francis Power and Gold Commissioner Thomas John Griffin (the two standing Native Mounted Policemen are not named).
William Lanne
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William Lanne, also spelt William Lanné and also known as King Billy or William Laney, was an Aboriginal Tasmanian man, known for being the last "full-blooded" Aboriginal man in the colony of Tasmania
Thomas Griffin (Australian gold commissioner)
…in 1873 by Hurst and Blackett in London. Miss King was the sister of Henry E. King, a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1870 to 1883. William Lanne, similar instance of grave-robbing and posthumous dismemberment in 1869 Sources…
William Lanne
Life at Oyster Cove Aboriginal station, painted c.1849 by Charles Edward Stanley