Charlie Flannigan: the Aboriginal stockman who sketched 19th-century life from death row
During his 10 months in jail the jockey and drover drew 82 drawings of life on the outside, while controversy raged over his sentence
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Charlie Flannigan, an Aboriginal stockman, showed “unalterable coolness” as he was taken to the gallows, newspapers at the time reported.
It was 1893 and the convicted murderer was about to become the first man hanged in the Northern Territory.
Law (Australia) | The Guardian
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