Epitaph - An Unforgeable Signature

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Epitaph - An Unforgeable Signature

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In the thirteenth episode of Epitaph's second season, Paul Gittins goes digging in Waikumete Cemetery. The epitaph for 25-year old convicted murderer Dennis Gunn, hanged in 1920 for shooting the Ponsonby postmaster, includes an intriguing inscription: "sadly wronged". Gittins unearths the story of a post office robbery, and the first Kiwi conviction based on fingerprint identification. The judge called the print an "unforgeable signature". Before he died, Gunn claimed innocence: "if only my b...

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1999

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grave / murder / death / genealogy / urupa / mystery / waikumete / waikumete cemetery / fingerprints / print identification / fingerprint recognition / fingerprint authentication / nz on air / new zealand on air / spooky / headstone / supreme court auckland / death certificate / hanging / capital punishment / letter / thelma mcsweeney / national archives / robert alexander / robert alexander gunn / patrick gunn / thora appleton / grand niece / annie gunn / margaret turner / bridgid davis / annie braithwaite / augustus braithwaite / sir frederick chapman / presiding judge / brother-in-law / mt eden prison / 1920 / twenties / mt eden corrections facility

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