James Thomas Coker, a trusted servant turned embezzler

James Thomas Coker, a trusted servant turned embezzler

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The prison record of a criminal who spent time in Queensland’s infamous St Helena Island jail is a stark reminder of how human nature can be corrupted. This man, James Thomas Coker,  embezzled money as a servant of a municipal authority. I am one of his many...

William Troden and the background to a crime

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William Troden was one of the bushrangers jailed in 1868 for the attack on Henry Aldridge and others near Gympie in Queensland. In the record of William Troden’s imprisonment on Queensland’s St Helena Island held by the Queensland State Archives, there is...