
George & Rue
The facts are clear. It was, by all accounts, a "slug-ugly" crime: in 1949, George and Rufus Hamilton, two African Canadians, bludgeoned a taxi driver to death with a hammer in the dirt-poor settlement of Barker''s Point, New Brunswick. Less than eight months later, the brothers were hanged for their crime.
George and Rue''s brutal act lives on in New Brunswick over half a century later, where the...
The facts are clear. It was, by all accounts, a "slug-ugly" crime: in 1949, George and Rufus Hamilton, two African Canadians, bludgeoned a taxi driver to death with a hammer in the dirt-poor settlement of Barker''s Point, New Brunswick. Less than eight months later, the brothers were hanged for their crime.
George and Rue''s brutal act lives on in New Brunswick over half a century later, where the...