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Who is Wallace? : the enigma of the world's oldest prisoner

Haigh, Gideon2025
On 9 December 1925, a forty-four-year-old man giving his name as Bill Wallace was arrested in Melbourne for the shooting of a young electrician following an altercation over whether smoking was permitted in a café at lunchtime. 'Who is Wallace?' asked newspapers. Yet Wallace would make no statem...
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