Tales From The Devil’s Half-Acre – The Dynamite Tragedy

A little taste of the next Dispatch from The Devil’s Half-Acre.
In July 1883, George Stephenson followed his estranged wife Mary through the streets of Dunedin with a rather more sinister plan in mind than simply asking how her day had been. What followed became one of the city’s most horrific murder-suicides, involving a stick of dynamite, a match head, and a blast that shook the neighbourhood.

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