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Robert Rohan alias Smith, the murderer of John Shae, at Yalca, near Shepparton, on January 23, was executed at Beechworth Gaol on June 6. Tire condemned man walked on to the scaffold in a calm, deliberate manner, and when asked by the sheriff whether he had anything to say, replied, “ I have Keen convicted'of this murder, and am prepared to hang for it,” The previous evening he said to the governor of the gaol and the Revs. William Brown and Downes, Wesleyan clergymen. “ I have committed several crimes that I ought to have been hanged for, but I never committed this.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2573, 20 June 1881, Page 2
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105LAST SCENE OF ALL. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2573, 20 June 1881, Page 2
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