Murderers

Date: [ca 1990-1996]

From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-8154-038

Description: Photocopy of the diary of Margaret Bain, with annotations, underlinings and notes by McNeish. Also typescript tribute to Robin Bain, detailing his curriculum vitae. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 7 March 1983]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1983/0807-F

Description: Wayne Maurice Carstairs (foreground) and Michael John Sneller (rear) arriving in police custody at the Lower Hutt District Court for a preliminary hearing of the charge of killing Robert John Cancian. Photographed ca 7 March 1983 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1997

From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-8154-036

Description: Typescript draft of Part one. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: [Ephemera of quarto size concerning police, policemen, policing, crime prevention]

By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: Eph-B-POLICE-1870s-01

Description: Single typescript page by an anonymous witness tells of seeing a man at a hotel in Waitati, 17 miles north of Dunedin. Because of his suspicions that the man was connected with a recent murder of a young couple named Dewar and their child, he advised the local policeman Charles Colborne, who telegrammed policeman Townsend of Waikouaiti. The arrested man was Robert Butler, alias Lee, alias Donnelly, alias Medway. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Carbon copy of typescript on sheet 330 x 205 mm. Provenance: From the collection of Mr Ken A Webster.

Date: 1997

From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-8154-037

Description: Typescript draft of Part two. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1996-1998

From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-8154-041

Description: Clippings, reviews, letters and other matters concerning reaction to the publication of `The Mask of sanity'. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1996

From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-8154-040

Description: Notes, psychiatric reports and research papers on similar cases, and on the European justice system. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1898

From: [Theatre ephemera and programmes for music-hall, comedy and variety productions in New Zealand, 1800s].

By: Auckland Amusement Syndicate

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1898-01

Description: Booklet whose inside-front page advertises the features on display at this Auckland venue, where there was a stage performance daily at 3.30 and 8 pm. As well as those mentioned in the title, other attractions were: Gypsy Queen, Cosmorama, Magnetic Lady, Stereorama, Automatic fortune teller, Ladies' shooting gallery, Galvanic batteries, Lifting machine, Lung tester, Punch & Judy, Darwin's missing link. The models on display at the Waxworks are listed, each with a biographical paragraph; they included: Queen Victoria, Lord Salisbury (Prime Minister of Great Britain at that time), the late Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone, the Rt Hon Joseph Chamberlain, Bismarck, Dr Leander Starr Jamieson, Pope Leo XIII, General Booth of the Salvation Army, President Oom Paul Kruger, Lillie Langtry, Prince Ranjitsinhji, Madame Nellie Melba, Chang the Giant, The Duchess of Buccleugh, Miss Fortescue (actress), Princess de Chimay. In the Chamber of Horrors section were: murderer Deeming (1892), Mrs Needle the Melbourne poisoner, Mr & Mrs Hall of Eaglehawk, "Bertie" Glasson (N.S.W. 1893), The Kelly Gang (Ned Kelly), Henry Morgan the Panmure (Victoria) murderer, Butler the bush murderer, the Maungatapu murderers (Kelly, Sullivan, Burgess and Levy). Quantity: 1 volume(s) booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, each 215 x 140 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in July 2003.

Date: 1833-1934

By: Hobson family

Reference: fMS-097

Description: A collection of documents associated with the Hobson family with a list of contents compiled by G H Scholefield, Hobson's biographer. Contains (1) Letter dated 4 April [1840] from William Hobson to his wife and enclosing his holograph diary 15 March to 3 April while he was recovering from a severe left hemisphere hemiplegia (stroke) with consequent paralysis. (2) Memorial (petition) for a bounty from Eliza A Hobson to Lord Stanley, 4 December 1843: "Zealously, courageously and disinterestedly did Governor Hobson endeavour to carry into effect the instructions of Her Majesty's Government ... Finding herself in the sad state of a widow with five children ...". (3) Letter dated 16 December 1841 from Kemara and other chiefs to Hobson with a translation in the hand of George Cooper. The tenor of the letter is to support the Governor and to distance the chiefs from the crime of the murderer Makutu and to assuage the fears of the British over the prospect of unrest: "Sir, Makutu alone is answerable for his conduct, we had nothing to do with it, we leave that man to you [for trial], let us not see him again ...". Many of the signatories are chiefs who signed the Treaty of Waitangi and these are identified in the names field below. (4) Letter written at Paihia, 24 December 1841 signed by various chiefs, named below: "Governor, this is our letter to you, it was owing to a mistake that our names were not attached to Pomare's letter and to Kawiti's also ... we have nought disturbing or an evil intention towards Europeans ...". (5) Translation of a letter from Noble Panakareao, one of the principal chiefs of the Northern District. This is a translation from Maori by William Colenso of Panakareao's letter to Hobson of 5 May, responding to the Governor's printed circular (Williams 53, dated 27 April 1840). The letter offers land and resulted in W. Shortland's visit to Kaitaia for the Treaty signing there. Associated documents including the reply are in fMS-Papers-2227. (6) Letter from Wiremu Hoeti (William Jowett) to Mrs Hobson ("Mata Kawana"), 27 March 1843, on her departure fron Auckland: "Farewell from your friends the chiefs of New Zealand". (7) Letter to the Governor, apparently 1853. (8)Typescript copy of Hobson's 1833 memorial to Sir John Graham (Admiralty) concerning Hobson's naval service. (9) Letter dated 20 February 1934, concerning a photographic portrait of William Robert Hobson, son of William Hobson, with the portrait itself. (10) "Series of twelve profile portraits of aborigines of New South Wales / drawn from life and on stone by W H Fernyhough" (lacks title and two of the portraits) printed Sydney, J G Austin, 1836. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (67 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (41 cm; ½ black calf, green linen)

Date: 1997

From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-8154-039

Description: Transcripts of a `60 Minutes' documentary programme, broadcast on TV One on 19 Jun 1997, recording interviews with people involved in the Bain case. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1998-2001

From: McLeod, Rosemary Margaret, 1949- :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11255-9

Description: Letters to Rosemary McLeod, commenting on various of her articles and on the degrading of the New Zealand Listener Quantity: 1 folder(s) 3 letters. Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1842

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-045

Description: A head and shoulders portrait of a young Maori man. He wears a flax rain cape Compare two watercolour versions of the same portrait in the Alexander Turnbull Library, reference numbers E-216-f-011 and E-216-f-141 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of ink and wash drawing , original 266 x 199 mm

Date: 1900 - 1910

By: Terry, Edward Lionel, 1873-1952

Reference: A-246-029

Description: A head and shoulders frontal self-portrait showing murderer Lionel Terry behind bars. He has drawn himself showing a resemblance to Jesus On verso: poem handwritten in ink by Terry, "The prisoned prophet to his persecutors", signed "Lionel Terry". Compare file print of privately-owned pencil and watercolour version of this self-portrait. (neg number 1/2-104764-F). cf also versions at MS Papers 697: 495 (Terry papers). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Graphite and coloured pencil on card 87 x 60 mm, on sheet 120 x 90 mm

Date: 1733

From: Hogarth, William 1697-1764 :The original works of William Hogarth. London, sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790

Reference: D-020-014

Description: Portrait of Sarah Malcolm done two days before she was executed for murder. She is shown with one arm resting on a pedestal, and wearing a scarf on her head. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 226 x 230 mm, one of three engravings on sheet 630 x 476 mm

Date: May 1972

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1972/2210-F

Description: Dean Wickliffe being lead away by police after being convicted of murdering Wellington jeweller Paul Miet in 1972. Photograph taken by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) strip with 5 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: 1993

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to women, women's roles, activities, issues, in New Zealand]

By: Slane, Christopher, 1957-

Reference: Eph-A-WOMEN-1993-Murderesses

Description: Each card features a photograph of a New Zealand murderess on one side, and on the other a short biography. The women included are: 1. Minnie Dean, baby-farmer 2. Parker & Hulme, teen killers 3. Margaret Doull, poisoner 4. "Nurse" Kerr, poisoner 5. Phyllis Freeman, poisoner 6. Edna Wilson, strangler 7. Nola Lorimer, matricide Two copies held. Quantity: 7 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on both sides of 7 different cards, each 110 x 60 mm.

Date: 23 Aug 1871

From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0075-109

Description: Eyewitness account of the trial and execution of the slave Kati for the murder of Henry Biddle at Hokianga. The British Resident James Busby presided at the trial and White gives a detailed account. Kati was shot by the chief Pangari with the approval of the local chiefs, including Nene, in the first case of the murder of a European by a Maori. Other accounts are provided by William Colenso, William Woon and Nathaniel Turner. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 2014

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0029863

Description: Accompanying note from cartoonist states, 'Our penal system often seems very lenient in terms of sentences (and then early release on Parole). But the escape of Phillip Smith while on Parole, and then his escape from the country, is like something out of the Keystone Cops. Cartoon depicts Corrections staff and authorities.' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0030369

Description: Cartoon shows the international terminal at presumably Auckland International Airport. A man covered from head to toe in a bio-hazard suit stands ready at the arrivals area to check incoming passengers for the deadly ebola virus. Meanwhile, convicted murder and sex offender, Philip Smith, is shown waving goodbye as he flees the country. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0018480

Description: A man representing the 'right wing' blows an enormous dog-whistle that represents 'Dog whistle politics' and says 'Why is everyone looking at me?' Nearby is a grave covered with flowers which has a headstone bearing the word 'Norway'. Context - On 22 July there were two terror attacks in Norway. The suspect is Anders Behring Breivik, a far-right activist, who shot dozens of young people who were attending a Labour-Party youth wing camp on Utoya Island near Oslo and another seven in a bombing in Oslo - in all he killed 77 people. Dog-whistle politics is defined in www.doubletongued.org as a concealed, coded, or unstated idea, usually divisive or politically dangerous, nevertheless understood by the intended voters. It appears that the message was so strong that no-one could possibly fail to understand its import. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).