Murder on the Rock
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In Murder on the Rock, Robert C. Parsons describes some of the most horrific and puzzling crimes and shenanigans that have happened in this province. source
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St. Thomas (formerly Horse Cove)
“Horse Cove — renamed St. Thomas in 1922 — lies a few kilometres outside St. John's. At the end of the fishing season of 1883, several seamen were heading home from St. John's to Horse Cove and nearby Broad Cove. Before they reached there, at the intersection of Broad Cove Road and Portugal Cove Road, a vicious argument broke out which led to murder.”
Parsons anchors a specific 1883 manslaughter chapter to the exact crossroads of Broad Cove Road and Portugal Cove Road and to the St. John's Penitentiary where Whelan was sentenced.
Robert C. Parsons, Murder on the Rock (Flanker Press, 2014), publisher excerpt — source
