The Curious Case of the Stolen Mace Solving Australia's strangest political crime
Date: 3 October 2026 | Posted by: BeMyLove
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Title: The Curious Case of the Stolen Mace Solving Australia's strangest political crime
Author: Sally Young
Category: 19th Century, True Crime, Australia & Oceania
Language: English | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1761170856
Description:
The book that finally solves Australia's most infamous political crime.
In 1891, the sacred symbol of the Victorian Parliament, its ceremonial mace, was stolen. A long, heavy club topped with a crown, it was popularly thought to be made of solid gold.
The colony's best detectives, a dour Scot named Tom Nixon and the famous Ned Kelly-hunter Mick Ward, were assigned to the case, but the mace was never recovered. No one was ever charged and a substantial reward remains unclaimed.
Was the thief a corrupt politician who took the mace to a brothel on a drunken lark? A parliamentary worker who was seen with an odd-shaped package? A carpenter who snuck in through an open window? Or a political activist?
Award-winning historian Sally Young pieces together old and new evidence 135 years later – including letters, witness statements and police reports – to reveal the thief and how he got away with the political crime of the century just as...
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The book that finally solves Australia's most infamous political crime.
In 1891, the sacred symbol of the Victorian Parliament, its ceremonial mace, was stolen. A long, heavy club topped with a crown, it was popularly thought to be made of solid gold.
The colony's best detectives, a dour Scot named Tom Nixon and the famous Ned Kelly-hunter Mick Ward, were assigned to the case, but the mace was never recovered. No one was ever charged and a substantial reward remains unclaimed.
Was the thief a corrupt politician who took the mace to a brothel on a drunken lark? A parliamentary worker who was seen with an odd-shaped package? A carpenter who snuck in through an open window? Or a political activist?
Award-winning historian Sally Young pieces together old and new evidence 135 years later – including letters, witness statements and police reports – to reveal the thief and how he got away with the political crime of the century just as...
DOWNLOAD:
https://rapidgator.net/file/3291169bd645897af2ad9845fe2e41d7/The_Curious_Case_of_the_Stolen_Mace_Solving_Australia's_strangest_political_crime.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/7BF20989AE2655D/The_Curious_Case_of_the_Stolen_Mace_Solving_Australia%27s_strangest_political_crime.rar
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