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The Assassination Of Ben Hall

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However, the shooting death of Ben Hall and its manner never sat well with many of his close friends and speculation soon mounted as to what the true events of that fateful morning were especially in regards to the volume of gunshot wounds alluded to by Dr Ashenheim. Did Davidson and Condell tell the whole truth? Shortly after the police had returned with the gunshot-riddled body of Hall one of the police trackers the hard working and right hand of numerous Inspectors, William Dargin, widely known as 'Billy' put forward to some his own account of Hall's death and that he himself had discovered Hall's camp, revealed it to the Inspector who sent him back in the dead of night after Hall had hobbled his horses and then returned to camp. Billy states
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