The Night was a Bright Moonlight and I Could See a Man Quite PlainGideon Haigh has written numerous acclaimed books on both cricket and true crime now hes unearthed a gripping story that combines the two, in a masterpiece of historical detective work that ties back to the origin of the Ashes On the night of 23 September 1910, on a station 500km west of Brisbane, farm hand John Neil was beaten to death with a cricket bat. The prime suspect, George Vernon, was the fresh faced twenty four year old son of one of