The Execution of William Henry Feast
In 1955, the battered, beaten and
bloodied body of Unice Flora Gwynne, aged 78, a widow, was found
partially hidden in a mangrove swamp near Port Adelaide. Half of her
clothing had been removed and she had been “criminally assaulted”
Police started to investigate the
matter, and it did not take them long to become suspicious of one
William Henry Feast, a 42-year-old Wharf Labourer, but William had
skipped town and headed to Victoria.
Mr Feast was eventually hunted down,
the brutality of his crime to an old woman earned him no reprieve
from the criminal element of the State of Victoria, and Police
eventually caught up with, and arrested him.
On January 2nd, South
Australian Police sent over Detective Sergeant E. Canney, a Police
Escort to accompany Mr Feast back to Adelaide to face his murder
charge in courts. There was a slight hitch in the plan, which made
national news at the time, Two major Australian airlines, TAA and
ANA, would not allow Mr Feast nor his Police Escort to board their
flights on the ground that their paying passengers would be safe, and
be somewhat endangered by having this man on their flight. Feast was
eventually brought back to Adelaide via the train service.
Feast was found guilty on all counts
and sentenced to hang in Adelaide Gaol, his execution by hanging took
place on March 23rd 1956
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