Glen Sabre Valance [SEP] convicted of
Glen Sabre Valance
Glen Sabre Valance, age 21, was hanged in Adelaide Gaol for the murder of Richard Strang. He was the last man executed in South Australia, on 24 November 1964. Born Graham Paul Fraser, he changed his name as a teenager, to Glen Sabre Valance, after Liberty Valance, the title character of a 1962 western film.
Crime.
In the early hours of 16 June 1964, Valance tied up three station hands at the Koonroon property near Bordertown, South Australia then entered the
Church, was killed during the attempt to rescue him from Congolese rebels in Stanleyville.
- Glen Sabre Valance, 21, the last person to be executed in South Australia, was hanged at the Adelaide Gaol at Thebarton.
November 25, 1964 (Wednesday).
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