Perth Town Hall
Gothic-style civic hall of red brick, raised by convict labour and marked with hangman's-rope and broad-arrow carvings.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Perth Town Hall follows a murder in Fremantle in June of eighteen eighty-seven, when publican William Conroy shot town councillor John Snook at a children's ball, and the public campaign that followed inside this hall after Conroy's trial in Perth. You'll hear about the jury who convicted him and then asked for mercy, and the thousand Perth residents who crowded into this room to plead his case to the governor. Look up at the tower's carved windows for another true story built into the same stone by the men who raised it.
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