Ellen Monks

Australia's Dark Heart

Ellen Monks - Executed on the 8th of May 1860

Hanged at Goulburn Gaol for the hammer murder of her husband Thomas Monks in 1859. She is believed to be the last woman hanged in Goulburn gaol.

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