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IMAGE CREDITS
Dorothy Ruth Denzel: Daily Telegraph
Denzel as Queen of the Hawkesbury: Daily Telegraph
Frank Wilkinson: Daily Telegraph
William Cyril Moxley: Special photograph number 1152, 12 February 1923, Central Police Station, Sydney, photographer unknown; New South Wales Police Forensic Archive, Justice & Police Museum, Historic Houses Trust
William Moxley, prison photograph: State Records NSW
William MacKay: Daily Mirror
Moxley's hospital admission card and ward report: State Records, NSW
Moxley's Burwood house: Photo by Jean Bedford
Frank Wilkinson's car: State Records NSW
Moxley in 1925: Daily Telegraph
Frank Wilkinson's body: State Records NSW
Dorothy Denzel's body: State Records NSW
Dorothy Denzel's grave: State Records NSW
Frank Wilkinson's grave: State Records NSW
Frank Wilkinson's death certificate: NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages
Dorothy Denzel's death certificate: NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages
Long Bay Gaol: Randwick City Council
Central Criminal Court, Darlinghurst: State Records NSW
Sir Percival Halse Rogers: University of Sydney
Shotgun: Justice & Police Museum
Spade: Justice & Police Museum
Graves at Rookwood Cemetery: Photo by Jean Bedford
Condemned cell, Long Bay Gaol: State Records NSW
Sheriff's letters: Justice & Police Museum
Gallows, Long Bay Gaol: State Records NSW
Execution area, Long bay Gaol: State Records NSW
Sheriff's confirmation of Moxley's execution, 17 August 1932: Justice & Police Museum
Dr Holloway's report on Moxley's execution: Justice & Police Museum
