IT’S been 150 years this month since a butcher from Wagga tried to grab a slice of British aristocracy. But that wasn’t the start and certainly wasn’t the end of a story with more twists than a string of snags.
Along the way, the butcher had to prove he was the missing heir to an English baronetcy and able to claim an inheritance worth millions in today’s money. Throw in large doses of deceit and intrigue — along with two trials which gripped the public — and it’s a story worth retelling a century and a half later.
