Tag: commuted

• On This Day in 1909, Vere Thomas ‘St. Leger’ Goold: A long way from Tipperary.

  A long, long way as it turned out. When Vere Goold took his own life on this day in 1909 he was far from Tipperary (his ancestral home) and everything else he’d ever known. Once the son of a prominent Irish family, a talented boxer and Wimbledon tennis star, he died a convict, murderer and…

  CrimeScribe

  September 8, 2018

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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