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Tag Archives: Lauren Vogel

Interloping at a history conference The Digital Panopticon: Penal history in a digital age

Research Brief 24   As the Prosecution Project’s resident statistician, I recently infiltrated my first history conference – the Digital Panopticon held at the University of Tasmania. I must admit that this conference was one of the most fascinating I have attended. Interesting not only for the variety of projects we heard about, but for […]

On this week in... 1910

Coolgardie hit-man

On 10 January 1910, Peter Robustelli was tried at the Perth Supreme Court for the wilful murder of wood-cutter Giovanni Forsatti, known locally as Jack Tanna. Forsatti had been savagely beaten to death, the night watchman who discovered the body at the back of the Grand Bar at Coolgardie describing the head as having been battered as flat as a book. The crime was depicted as symptomatic of a culture of violence among Italian immigrants, with Robustelli allegedly hired by another Italian man to kill Forsatti for seducing his 13-year-old daughter. Robustelli was found guilty and sentenced to death.

This trial report is from Kalgoorlie Miner

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