TEN STEPS TO THE GALLOWS

Softcover. The author has captured the drama and intrigue associated with all the recorded hangings that have taken placer in Newfoundland. Both the comic and the tragic side of men and women caught up in murder and criminal justice are revealed. There is an intimacy between author and subject in the book, resulting from 2yrs painstaking research through many forgotten public records. This familiarity enables the reader to feel present at the scenes of the crimes, then to follow the murderer through the prison doors into the courts of justice, and finally up the steps to the gallows. Features 20yr old Herbert Spratt of St. John's, the last person to be hanged in Newfoundland on May 22, 1942. Illus. + Bibliog. 120pp. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Vg+