JOURNEY TO THE GALLOWS True Australian Crime Series No. 2

Softcover. True Australian Crime Series No. 2. Grim coincidence held the fatal hand that led two American servicemen on their journey's end to the scaffold, in these authentic stories of the ghastly crimes known as "Melbourne's Brown-Out Murders" and "Brisbane's Alley Slaying". US Private Edward Leonski was executed in Melbourne, on November 10, 1942 for his brutal crimes, but his body was later removed to Port Moresby. US Private Avelino Fernandez died at the end of the hangman's rope on the beach at Oro Bay, New Guinea on November 20, 1944, for the brutal Brisbane "Alley" slaying. Illus. 128pp. paper wraps. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Browned pp. o/w Vg. Extremely Rare.