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Issue Details: First known date: 1863... 1863 Wilson on Murder - A New Edition
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  • A satire on the views of the journalist and philanthropist Edward Wilson, who held that most criminals should be treated as lunatics, and that capital punishment should be abolished.

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    y separately published work icon The Sydney Mail vol. 4 no. 158 11 July 1863 Z1251180 1863 newspaper issue 1863 pg. 10
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