In The Name of Decent Citizens: The Trials of Frank de Groot by Brian Wright

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has light creasing at spine and edges. Interior is excellent.

A popular biography of Frank De Groot, the former hussar and Irishman, who in 1932 famously 'opened' the Sydney Harbour Bridge on horseback wielding his sword 'in the name of decent and respectable people of New South Wales'.

Brian Wright's colourful history, based on his own extensive research and De Groot's own papers and writings, picks up the story of Frank De Groot on that infamous day and then investigates the strange and curious court case that followed the incident and the fate of the sword. (publisher blurb)