Paul,
What did Ryan’s death have to do with the lifespan of Bolte?

Issy, once read a book about Ronald Ryan, didn't have much of a chance in life. I'm going to have to start charging you if I'm going to keep on answering your questions, there's a danger with you getting all that free knowledge, you could end up half as smart as me, and that wont do.

Maybe just maybe, as Ryan was a person with nothing going for him in life, who paid the ultimate price at the end of a rope. Maybe Bolte in his own way was a murderer who had an innocent man executed for his own selfish purposes. One judged to be a low life criminal, the other is knighted and has a statue erected in his honour. Any irony there?

Paul,
Sure there is irony and I think that Ryan didn’t kill the warden, but I fail to see how Ryan’s death extended Bolte’s life, that’s all.