The Donnellys Massacre Trial And Aftermath

Author : John Little
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781773058368

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The Donnellys: Massacre, Trial, and Aftermath by John Little Pdf

A story made all the more shocking because it’s true. In 1880, an organized mob of the Donnellys’ enemies murder four family members and burn their house to the ground. Another sibling is shot to death in a house a short distance away. William Donnelly and a teenage boy are the only witnesses to the murders. The surviving family members seek justice through the local courts but quickly learn that their enemies control the jury and the press. Two sensational trials follow that make national and international headlines as the Donnellys continue to pursue justice for their murdered parents, siblings and cousin. Behind the scenes, political factors are at play, as Oliver Mowat, the Premier/Attorney General of the province of Ontario, fearing the backlash a conviction would render, gradually withdraws support from the prosecution of the killers. After the trials, the Donnelly’s enemies continue their crusade against the family, paying off potential witnesses to the murders and fabricating one last set of charges that they hope will put the remaining Donnellys away forever.

Author : John Little
Publisher : Comprehensive Donnellys, Volum
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1770416293

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The Donnellys: Powder Keg by John Little Pdf

An in-depth, well-researched, and comprehensive account of the vigilante mob that murdered five of the Donnelly family and burned the family farm to the ground, and the feuds and religious tensions that led to it exploding into the headline-inducing massacre that it was.

Author : Keith Ross Leckie
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771622400

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Cursed! Blood of the Donnellys by Keith Ross Leckie Pdf

In the midst of the feuds and famine of Tipperary, Ireland in 1845, Jim Donnelly and Johannah McGee fall passionately in love. She is the beautiful daughter of an affluent estate manager, he the rebellious son of dispossessed peasants. With her father’s men in pursuit and a sizable price on Jim’s head, they board a ship set for Canada to start a new life and put the troubles of the old country behind them. Thousands of miles away in rural Ontario, they find the feuds and vendettas of Ireland are very much alive. Jim must make a place for his young family not just with his back, but with his fists. Fifteen years later, the Donnelly family have become one of the most powerful in Lucan Township, loved by some and hated by others. Jim and Johannah’s sons are notorious as both fighters and lovers and torment the townspeople, swinging shillelaghs, burning barns and seducing daughters. But certain citizens of Lucan have had enough. At midnight on February 3, 1880, a mob of thirty armed men in women’s clothing and carnival masks ride out for the Donnelly farm. Sustained by whisky and the blessings of the local priest, their goal is to wipe the Donnelly family from the face of the earth. Yet there is an eye witness and during the trial that follows, it becomes clear that in small town Ontario of the late 1800s, order is valued above truth. Eventful and conveyed with cinematic detail, Cursed! Blood of the Donnellys is an engaging and historically enlightening read.

Author : RAY FAZAKAS
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466913004

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In Search of the Donnellys by RAY FAZAKAS Pdf

The massacre of the Donnellys by their fellow church members has fascinated the public in the English-speaking world for well over a hundred years. Contained in this book are intriguing new photographs never before published and significant new information, which will pique the interest even of those who have been familiar for years with this bit of North American folk history with Irish roots.

Author : Orlo Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780470675199

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The Donnellys Must Die by Orlo Miller Pdf

From the annals of Canadian true crime, the story of The Black Donnellys massacre Ancient feuds, bloody conspiracy, gruesome murder, and bitter controversy--all shrouded in a seemingly impenetrable cloak of mystery. This is the tale of "The Black Donnellys"--a notorious family of Irish settlers who were viciously attacked while they slept in their Lucan, Ontario farmhouse on February 4, 1880. Here, in this definitive account of this sordid episode in Canadian history, first published in 1962 and continuously in print since then, author Orlo Miller sets out to separate fact from fiction, and legend from reality, to bring us the truth behind the Donnelly murders. Combining exhaustive research based on contemporary newspaper accounts, court records and personal diaries, with personal insights and dramatic re-creations, Miller's chilling revelations shed new light on this infamous case in the annals of Canadian crime. You will be taken on a journey of terrible bloodlust, unbending loyalties, and fatal revenge in the re-telling of an event whose infamy still lives in popular culture today.

Author : Thomas P. Kelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1127676931

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Vengeance of the Black Donnellys by Thomas P. Kelley Pdf

Author : Ray Fazakas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 146697110X

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The Donnelly Album by Ray Fazakas Pdf

The Donnelly Album By now everyone in Canada knows at least one version of the brutal slaying of members of the Donnelly family on the night of February 3, 1880. The Donnelly Album tells in compelling detail the story of the Donnellys-James and Johannah and their seven sons and one daughter. Arriving in Canada from Tipperary, Ireland, in the 1840s, the family settled in the boisterous Irish pioneer community in Biddulph Township near London, Ontario. For the next thirty years, their activities gained wide notoriety in the surrounding district. The father was once convicted of murder but escaped the gallows. The sons grew up to be handsome, reckless, enterprising in business, and dangerous in combat. Largely because of their presence, Lucan, the village nearest their farm home, became known as the widest town in Canada. What is it about the Donnellys that have fascinated so many people for many years? Were they really as wicked as their enemies have portrayed them? Why was no one ever convicted of the murders? What happened to the surviving Donnellys? Why do local people today still fell so strongly, both pro and con, about the family? After fifteen years of exhaustive research, Ray Fazakas has produced the definitive account of the famous feud and its tragic consequences. He has also collected an astonishing treasure trove of old photographs, contemporary drawings, maps, and documents of the Donnellys, their murderers, and the sites and people involved in the events. This unique combination of narrative and illustration recreates not just an epic tragedy but an entire segment of Canadian frontier life. Ray Fazakas is a well-known Hamilton lawyer.

Author : John Little
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781510733411

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Who Killed Tom Thomson? by John Little Pdf

Tom Thomson was Canada's Vincent van Gogh. He painted for a period of five years before meeting his untimely death in a remote wilderness lake in July 1917. He was buried in an unofficial grave close to the lake where his body was found. About eight hours after he was buried, the coroner arrived but never examined the body and ruled his death accidental due to drowning. A day and a half later, Thomson's family hired an undertaker to exhume the body and move it to the family plot about 100 miles away. This undertaker refused all help, and only worked at night. In 1956, John Little's father and three other men, influenced by the story of an old park ranger who never believed Thomson's body was moved by the undertaker, dug up what was supposed to be the original, empty grave. To their surprise, the grave still contained a body, and the skull revealed a head wound that matched the same location noted by the men who pulled his corpse from the water in 1917. The finding sent shockwaves across the nation and began a mystery that continues to this day. In Who Killed Tom Thomson? John Little continues the sixty-year relationship his family has had with Tom Thomson and his fate by teaming up with two high-ranking Ontario provincial police homicide detectives. For the first time, they provide a forensic scientific opinion as to how Thomson met his death, and where his body is buried. Little draws upon his father's research, plus recently released archival material, as well as his own thirty-year investigation. He and his colleagues prove that Thomson was murdered, and set forth two persons of interest who may have killed Tom Thomson.

Author : James Reaney
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781550028324

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The Donnellys by James Reaney Pdf

Based on a true story, these three plays explore the saga of a secret society and massacre that stunned the Canadian public in 1880.-Based on a true story, these three plays explore the saga of a secret society and massacre that stunned the Canadian public in 1880.

Author : Thomas P. Kelley
Publisher : Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Crime and criminals
ISBN : 1895565243

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The Black Donnellys by Thomas P. Kelley Pdf

The terrible Donnelly feud, by far the most notorious and violent in the history of Canada, began in the spring of 1847 only a few hours after James Donnelly, an Irish immigrant, first arrived in the town of Lucan, Ontario. The feud lasted nearly 33 years and was marked by murders, gang wars, highway robbery, mass arson, derailed trains, mutilations, and barbarisms paralleling the Dark Ages.

Author : Robin Jenkins
Publisher : Canons
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Brothers
ISBN : 0857862359

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The Cone-Gatherers by Robin Jenkins Pdf

Originally published: London: Macdonald, 1955.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1174 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Middlesex (Canada : County)
ISBN : UOM:39015027954000

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History of the County of Middlesex, Canada by Anonim Pdf

Author : W. Montgomery
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : History
ISBN : 9785870907901

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The Montgomery manuscripts by W. Montgomery Pdf

The Montgomery manuscripts. containing accounts of the colonization of the Ardes, in the county of Down, in the reigns of Elizabeth and James. Memoirs of the first, second, and third Viscounts Montgomery, and Captain George Montgomery: also, a description

Author : Peter Linebaugh
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520260009

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The Magna Carta Manifesto by Peter Linebaugh Pdf

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Author : John R. Little,Joanne Sharkey
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780071820011

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The Wisdom of Mike Mentzer by John R. Little,Joanne Sharkey Pdf

The last word on how to build a better body--from the late, great Mike Mentzer With his revolutionary "Heavy Duty" system, Mike Mentzer changed the way bodybuilders train, showing them that "less is more" when it comes to making great gains. In The Wisdom of Mike Mentzer, you will discover Mike's most advanced training techniques and philosophies--previously known only to his inner circle and personal clients. Drawing upon never-before-released materials, his longtime colleague John Little reveals Mentzer's most powerful lessons and workout plans, including: The importance of working to failure Techniques for pushing past mental and physical plateaus How overtraining impedes progress A complete advanced "Heavy Duty" training system The workout that worked "like magic" for Mr. Universe himself More than an instruction manual, this thorough compendium brings together a lifetime of insights, training truths, and personal philosophies from one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time.