Sir Henry Bolte and the hanging of Ronald Ryan

Caleb Cluff
February 3 2017 - 12:30pm
50 years: Melbourne prison escapee Ronald Ryan is taken to police headquarters in Sydney after his recapture, 5 January 1966. Photo: W. Croser
50 years: Melbourne prison escapee Ronald Ryan is taken to police headquarters in Sydney after his recapture, 5 January 1966. Photo: W. Croser

At 8am on Friday, February 3, 1967, a man wearing the eerie hangman’s uniform of white sandshoes, grey coveralls, a green cloth butcher’s cap and welding glasses sent the convicted murderer Ronald Joseph Ryan crashing through the trapdoor at HM Prison Pentridge to his death.

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Caleb Cluff

Caleb Cluff

Senior Journalist, The Courier

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