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Hanging minister caught by the shed!Inner Sydney was a terrible place to grow up in the 1880s, but Tom Ley was tougher. Despite living pretty well as a street urchin he delivered groceries and sold newspapers and studied hard at night school because he wanted to cast off his working-class origins.Garden Curses - the MummyThe last thing you'd expect to find in the garden of a miner's retirement centre is an Egyptian mummy, but it's a fact. The mummy was brought back to Britain in 1904 by the explorer John Wilhelm Rowntree...The tree that witnessed a murderOne Sunday morning, a boy riding his dirt bike through a dry wash in the desert saw the nude body of a woman, lying face down near a cluster of palo verde trees...Musical shedsDo you remember Thomas Dolby - the electronic music genius who composed the infuriatingly catchy pop hit, Hyperactive. Well guess where he makes music? That's right, in a shed... Find out more!Criminal plants - orchid smugglingIn March 2000, Richard Labossière, a Canadian Wildlife Officer, received an unusual call from a Customs Inspector at the Winnipeg International Airport advising that a large and somewhat suspect shipment of orchids had just arrived from Taiwan... Find out more!Criminal gardens - pilferageTwo women have been charged with pilfering from gardens in Central Scotland over two years. Police have charged two women after discovering a huge cache of garden gnomes in a sitting room... Find out more!