Who Killed Hannah Jane? is a 1984 Australian television film about the murder conviction of Arthur Peden directed by Peter Fisk and starring Graham Rouse, June Salter, Judi Farr, Edward Howell, and Barry Otto.Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 164 It was the third of four telemovies called Verdict produced by the ABC dramatising real cases (the others being The Dean Case, The Amorous Dentist, and The Schippan Mystery).
Background Based on the 17 May 1921 murder of Gundagai resident, Hannah Jane Peden, and the subsequent June 1921 trial in Sydney, and conviction of her husband, Arthur Bryce Peden. After an appeal, and based on the benefit of the doubt, Peden was released from Long Bay Gaol on 28 February 1922.
Cast Graham Rouse - Arthur Peden June Salter – Mrs Edwards Judi Farr – Hannah Jane Peden Edward Howell – Mr Andrews Barry Otto – James Harnney Jennifer Hagan – Marion Andrews Peter Whitford – James Gannon Francis Bell – Archibald McDonnell John Gregg – William Coyle Leonard Teale – Mr Justice Street
Media
book – Tom Molomby, Who killed Hannah Jane (1981) article - D.J. Pounder, The Peden case: an Australian forensic disaster. The Medical Journal of Australia, v.153, no.11-12, (3–17 December 1990), pp. 712–715.
References
External links Who Killed Hannah Jane? at Austlit Who Killed Hannah Jane? at Screen Australia