family, it was permitted for the family to provide the coffin and a hearse, although the burial would still occur in unconsecrated ground. The coffin was polished cedar with silver mountings with religious symbols. A funeral procession of the hearse, the mourning coaches and approximately 30 other vehicles accompanied by people walking (an estimate of 400 people all together) made its way to the cemetery, where Patrick Kenniff was buried with Roman Catholic rites by Father Michael Baldwin. After Kenniff's execution, it was reported that the cost to the government of the capture of the Kenniffs was £2911/17/8 and of the trial £690/5/2, a total of £3601/2/10. James served twelve years. He died in Charters Towers on 8 October 1940 from cancer. In January 1941, citing an anonymous correspondent, the Truth newspaper published a version of the story purporting that James was himself alone guilty of both murders. Depictions A 1981 play, The Execution of Steele Rudd by Australian playwright Harry Reade was premiered at the National Theatre at the Playhouse, Perth, directed by Stephen Barry. It portrays the character and actions of Rudd, a.k.a. Arthur Hoey Davis, who was then the under-sheriff who managed arrangements for Kenniff's execution. The play was also staged by Melbourne's Playbox Theatre in 1983. In 2017, Mike Munro hosted and helped to produce a four part science-based documentary series for Foxtel's History Channel on Bushrangers. One of the one-hour specials included Munro's great uncles, Paddy and Jimmy Kenniff, one of whom was hanged in Brisbane jail in 1903 after being convicted of murdering a police constable and a station manager in the Carnarvon Ranges in Queensland. In 2017 a TV crew unearthed a bullet believed to be used by Kenniff brothers three metres from the site of the double murders. References External links 1865 births 1903 deaths 19th-century Australian criminals 1902 murders in Australia Bushrangers People executed for murder People executed by Australia by hanging Australian Roman Catholics Executed Australian people Australian people convicted of murder 20th-century executions by Australia People executed by Queensland People convicted of murder by Queensland Burials in South Brisbane Cemetery