The conclusion of the story of the Moore Gang…
The following day the five bodies of the Moore Gang are respectfully displayed in the undertaker’s drawing room. News photographers take pictures of the women who were modestly covered in sheets.
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It is a far more respectful display than the way they were hanged in public.
For a few hours town people come to show their respect- or perhaps scorn- of the women who they knew and watched being hanged the day before.
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Later in the afternoon the five caskets are loaded in a wagon to be buried in unmarked graves at the edge of the cemetery.
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The following week Tree gets his copy of the Crux Chronicle that features a front-page picture of the five women naked in their caskets!
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It seems ‘Spike’ Sharp paid the undertaker to take the sheets off so he could get an exclusive shot of the naked women!
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Inside the edition was a graphic photo layout of each woman being taken to the gallows, standing noosed waiting to be hanged, and shots of them hanging by their necks.
So ends the story of The Moore Gang… we will miss them!
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