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Sir Harry Oakes-Maine native, adventurer, gold prospector, philanthropist, British baronet, and one of the wealthiest men of his time-had been found brutally slain in his bedroom at Westbourne, the mansion on his rambling Bahamas estate.
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Humble beginnings. Harry Oakes was born in Sangerville in 1874, the son of William and Edith Oakes. According to a history of Oakes' life published by the Sangerville Public Library, the Oakes.
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Seventy-five years ago this week, Sir Harry Oakes was found dead in his bed in Nassau. He'd been bludgeoned and set afire. The defendant: the man's son-in-law, a society dandy so elevated he had.
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Oak Hall, the house which Oakes had built in Niagara Falls, was used as a convalescent hospital for the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Sir Harry Oakes' eldest son, Sir Sidney Oakes and his wife resided in Oak Hall for several years in the 1950's, before returning to the Bahamas. Oak Hall was sold by the Oakes family to the.
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Sir Harry Oakes, left, and his friend the Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII of England. (Museum of Northern History via BDN) -- Harry Oakes started life as a shy, small town kid.
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Sir Harry Oakes, 68, born and raised in Maine, possessor of a Canadian gold-mine fortune and a British title, had been bludgeoned to death in the bedroom of Westbourne, his bougainvillea-adorned Nassau estate. From the looks of the crime scene, he'd also been set on fire. The walls bore bloodstains.
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Sir Harry Oakes was a multimillionaire, the richest man in the Bahamas. He had made his fortune with gold mines he'd discovered in Canada and was seeking to protect it by living in a tax haven..
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Oakes was not well-treated by biographers more interested in the sensational mystery than the man. The first, and most influential, The Life and Death of Sir Harry Oakes was written by a Daily Express writer named Geoffrey Bocca. His portrayal of Oakes as a "complete brute" has influenced subsequent books, Gray said.
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1874 - 1943 Harry Oakes was born in Sangerville, Maine on December 23rd 1874. Harry was well educated. He attended Foxcroft Academy, Bowdoin College and Syracuse Medical School. In 1896, when he was 22 years old, Harry left medical school to take up the career of prospector in Klondike, Yukon.
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The richest man in the Bahamas (if not the whole Empire) was Sir Harry Oakes, who earned his fortune from gold prospecting and spent the rest of his life avoiding the tax man. He was found murdered in the morning of 8 July 1943, having been killed sometime after midnight during a summer thunderstorm. His body, bearing four lethal head wounds.
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Paperback. $28.20 14 Used from $7.87 10 New from $23.11. When news of Sir Harry Oakes' murder broke to the world on the morning of July, 8, 1943, one man was more concerned than most. He was the Duke of Windsor, then Governor of the British colony, whose job it was to ensure that the killer was caught and brought to justice.
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For Sir Harry Oakes, his unsolved murder is one for the storybooks. It's like a supersized game of Clue, where every suspect is as extravagant as the next, and each with an equally extravagant motive that ties into past lives and hidden secrets. There are links to the British nobility, the American mob scene, and Nazi sympathizers.
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Along with the Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren, who purchased significant amounts of real estate on Hog Island (Paradise Island), American born Sir Harry Oakes was one of the most important investors in The Bahamas during the 1930s.
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SIR HARRY OAKES and his family legacies a history Harry and Eunice Oakes Harry Oakes was born in Sangerville, Maine on December 23rd 1874. His parents were William Pitt Oakes, a lawyer/surveyor and Nancy (Lewis) Oakes, a teacher. Harry was one of two boys and two girls. Harry was well educated.
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The murder of Sir Harry Oakes laid bare the rotten underbelly of Nassau and it was brutally ugly. It was so ugly, that it engulfed two more victims who were murdered just as brutally as Oakes had been. Betty Renner and Dorothy Macksey were killed as viciously as Harry Oakes. Harold G. Christie was born 31st May 1896.
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He received a baronetcy in 1939 for his philanthropy in England. Eccentric, unpopular in Canada and exuding the manner and dress of the mining frontier, Oakes died at his home - victim of an unsolved murder. His estate in NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, forms the basis of that city's scenic parks.