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Fremantle Prison -- History page 7 (769 words) |
 | Perth Gaol opened in 1856, and until 1888 it was the major focus for legal executions by hanging in the State. |
| In 1867 the Imperial Convict Establishment at Fremantle was renamed Fremantle Prison, and in 1886 it was handed over to the colonial government as a major high security prison. |
| Cooke was a serial killer, and although charged with, and tried for, only one murder, evidence plus his own voluntary confessions, indicate that he killed a number of others during his three or four year reign of terror in the suburbs of Perth. |
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