The gallows, from which the prisoners would be "hung by the neck, until they were dead".

I'm guessing that the absence of an actual noose was a conscious decision on the part of the gaol administration, as it may have been a touch confronting. Image 13243 is bad enough.

133 people were hanged in the jail during its years of operation. The last were in 1924, the year in which the jail was closed.

However they weren't all here; this is just the final location of the gallows, dating from 1864. (It shifted location slightly since then, but just to the side.) It was located between the men's block and the women's block. There was a single leaf trap cut into the iron walkway.

But what about multiple executions? Well, I'm not sure whether they did them after 1864, but before then it was less of an issue.

The original gallows was a free-standing affair which was outside the main gate, remembering that executions were, at one time, a public spectacle. It was later moved into one of the yards.

This did not in itself remedy the problem of multiple hangings, which, we may recall from earlier shots in this gallery, happened when George Melville and two of his, uh, "colleagues" faced the hangman in 1853. Since the gallows back then were not fixed affairs, it was as easy to build three as it was to build one.

Once it moved to a fixed location... I suppose that everyone just had to wait their turn. I doubt that multiple hangings were common after the bushranger era was past.