STORY OF FRANK MCCULLOUGH

Softcover. The crime for which Frank McCullough paid the supreme penalty by hanging was that of the shooting of Acting Detective Frank Williams, whilst in the discharge of his duty in arresting McCullough and a companion, Albert Johnson, on a charge of theft. McCullough became a popular hero and thousands of upstanding citizens - middle and working-class men and women, children and churchgoers - petitioned Ottawa on his behalf. At the trial on January 21st, 1919, Mr T.C. Robinette, K.C. appeared for the defence and Mr Peter White, K.C. for the Prosecution. McCullough claimed that he was trying to stop Williams from beating him and somehow in the affray the detective was shot. On the night before his execution a mob of thousands swarmed below his death cell window, cheering on their man and threatening to storm the jail. This volume was a forerunner of the editor's little known 'Notable Canadian Trials' series published around the early 1920s. Illus. in text. 136pp. trade size soft cover. Original pale green paper wrappers are patchily faded, frayed and chipped, lightly browned pp., reinforced sp. G+. Scarce.