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Episode 13: Blood of the Black Donnelly's
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There's no justice, like frontier mob justice.
In this episode, author Keith Leckie joins host Russell Hillier to talk about his book, Cursed: Blood of the Donnelly's, a novel about the most infamous family in Canadian history.
The Historical Background
For years, every barn-burning, horse theft and murder in the pioneer town of Lucan, was blamed on the Donnelly clan.
Then on the night of February 3, 1880, a vigilante mob of local citizens converged on the Donnelly farmstead, armed with clubs, guns and pitchforks. They massacred every family member they could find, then made their way to a second farmstead and shot-dead another Donnelly brother as he opened the door.
There were witnesses to the killings, yet not a single man was convicted of the crime.
Were the Donnelly's lambs at the slaughter, or did they have it coming?
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