Mrs Osbourne, circa 1919

Vera Crichton, 23, and Nancy Cowman, 19, are listed in the NSW Police Gazette 24 March 1924 as charged, along with three others, with “conspiring together to procure a miscarriage” on a third woman. Crichton was “bound over to appear for sentence if called upon within three years”.

courtesy of
The Justice & Police Museum/Historic Households Trust

source: twistedsifter

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Esther Eggers, 16 December 1919. Crime: malicious injury to property and wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm. When a police officer arrived to arrest Esther Eggers for malicious damage she attacked him, causing serious injury. Eggers was sentenced to 12 months prison. Aged 22.

Photograph by The Sydney Justice & Police Museum / source: twistedsifter

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