Eveline Mary Maughan, a 7 year old girl, disappeared after leaving her home at 100 Goulburn Street, Hobart on the 8th July, 1945. On the 5th October, Edmund Mead of Goulburn, New South Wales, was visiting Queenborough Cemetery looking for his father's grave when he found a child's body in the lattice enclosure. It was identified as Maughan's. Her hands were tied in front of her and, because of the decomposition, the doctor was unable to state the cause of death. The evidence, however, was consistent with suffocation.
Suspicion fell on Frederick Thompson, whom some witnesses claim to have seen carrying a heavy bath on his shoulder and later, wheeling a child's pusher in Nelson Road near the Queenborough Cemetery. Thompson appeared in the Supreme Court on the 11th December, 1945, charged with Evelyn Maughan's murder. He was sentenced to death and executed on the 14th February, 1946. Thompson's body was buried in Cornelian Bay Cemetery. He was the last person to be executed in Tasmania.
- Executions at Campbell Street Gaol 1857 - 1946, changed spelling of first name and age in above article to agree with the cemetery information.
Suspicion fell on Frederick Thompson, whom some witnesses claim to have seen carrying a heavy bath on his shoulder and later, wheeling a child's pusher in Nelson Road near the Queenborough Cemetery. Thompson appeared in the Supreme Court on the 11th December, 1945, charged with Evelyn Maughan's murder. He was sentenced to death and executed on the 14th February, 1946. Thompson's body was buried in Cornelian Bay Cemetery. He was the last person to be executed in Tasmania.
- Executions at Campbell Street Gaol 1857 - 1946, changed spelling of first name and age in above article to agree with the cemetery information.
Eveline Mary Maughan, a 7 year old girl, disappeared after leaving her home at 100 Goulburn Street, Hobart on the 8th July, 1945. On the 5th October, Edmund Mead of Goulburn, New South Wales, was visiting Queenborough Cemetery looking for his father's grave when he found a child's body in the lattice enclosure. It was identified as Maughan's. Her hands were tied in front of her and, because of the decomposition, the doctor was unable to state the cause of death. The evidence, however, was consistent with suffocation.
Suspicion fell on Frederick Thompson, whom some witnesses claim to have seen carrying a heavy bath on his shoulder and later, wheeling a child's pusher in Nelson Road near the Queenborough Cemetery. Thompson appeared in the Supreme Court on the 11th December, 1945, charged with Evelyn Maughan's murder. He was sentenced to death and executed on the 14th February, 1946. Thompson's body was buried in Cornelian Bay Cemetery. He was the last person to be executed in Tasmania.
- Executions at Campbell Street Gaol 1857 - 1946, changed spelling of first name and age in above article to agree with the cemetery information.
Suspicion fell on Frederick Thompson, whom some witnesses claim to have seen carrying a heavy bath on his shoulder and later, wheeling a child's pusher in Nelson Road near the Queenborough Cemetery. Thompson appeared in the Supreme Court on the 11th December, 1945, charged with Evelyn Maughan's murder. He was sentenced to death and executed on the 14th February, 1946. Thompson's body was buried in Cornelian Bay Cemetery. He was the last person to be executed in Tasmania.
- Executions at Campbell Street Gaol 1857 - 1946, changed spelling of first name and age in above article to agree with the cemetery information.
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