During his 10 months in jail the jockey and stockman drew 82 drawings of life on the outside, while controversy raged over his sentence
Another paper, the Register, reported that “the public conscience has never before been so deeply stirred by a keen sense of injustice”.
“We are sorely afraid that that is generally regarded as the reason why he, though the less morally guilty of the two, is to die while Page is to live.”In his 9 foot by 9 foot cell, awaiting his death, Flannigan was shackled and chained to a ring on the wall at night, and had a bucket for a toilet.Photograph: Charlie Flannigan/South Australian Museum Archives
The sketches ended up in the SA Museum archives until they were discovered 130 years later by Christophersen, a historian and curator.“You can imagine him sitting, shackled in his small cell, with nothing to look at other than what’s in his head – and he recreates those images in paper.”Christophersen says he wanted to do Flannigan’s story justice, to tell it “the right way”.
The NT Times and Gazette reported on 21 July 1893, that gallows were erected in the prison yard. The prisoner had his last breakfast, a last smoke.As he walked out he did so “with the firm step of a man going to freedom rather than of one about to be killed”.
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