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Edwin Charles Moller Draper Edwin Charles Moller Draper i(A116054 works by) (a.k.a. 'Hoppy' Draper)
Gender: Male
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Edwin 'Hoppy' Draper spent a turbulent 15 years editing newspapers in Cairns and Geraldton including The Cairns Chronicle and its successor The Cairns Argus. Draper attracted multiple law suits, was horse-whipped by Frederick Wimble, editor of The Cairns Post, on Christmas Day 1886, and had soot dumped on him by an incensed woman.

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