Stories of early Adelaide from 1835 till 1856. This book is the second in a unique series of stories of violence and murders perpetrated against the indigenous people & settlers in the outlying districts where the majority of the wool, meat and minerals were produced for the benefit of the whole colony. The book is divided into three sections, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. The “Good” section begins with the story of the search for a Governor for S.A. and his appointment, to the Proclamation and then to other stories of the progress of the colony including many other stories of the good interactions with the native inhabitants. The “Bad” section contains stories of the criminal problems experienced with the ever increasing arrival of convicts from the neighbouring colonies and how Governor Hindmarsh and the law courts dealt with the problem. As a result there were many individuals that suffered the ultimate fate of execution by the hangman, (commonly labelled a Jack Ketch) for the terrible crimes they had committed. The “Ugly” section tells a range of stories of deaths by accident or just individuals behaving badly towards others or incidents of floods or even dog attacks along with many other general nuisance stories.
