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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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Although no record for Fay Watson is found in the NSW Police Gazette for 1928, the Sydney Morning Herald (26 March 1928, p. 12) reports her arrest in a house in Crown Street, Darlinghurst, and subsequent conviction for having cocaine in her possession, for which she was fined ten pounds. The Justice and Police Museum. / source: twistedsifter

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Frederick Edward Davies, July 14, 1921. The handwritten inscription on this unnumbered Special Photograph reads ‘Frederick Edward Davies stealing in picture shows and theatres Dets Surridge Clark and Breen Central 14-7-21’. Police held sneak thieves in particularly low regard, which may account for the decision to photograph Davies in front of the police station’s toilet stalls. / 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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The precise circumstances surrounding this picture are unknown, but Herbert Ellis is found in numerous police records of the 1910′s, 20′s and 30′s. He is variously listed as a housebreaker, a shop breaker, a safe breaker, a receiver and a suspected person. A considerably less self-assured Ellis appears in the NSW Criminal Register of 29 August 1934 (no. 206). His convictions by then include ‘goods in custody, indecent langauge, stealing, eceiving and throwing a missile. Photograph used as the cover of 

Peter Doyle & Caleb Williams :: Thomas Bede, November 22, 1928 from City of Shadows (Historic Houses Trust, 2005) / source: twistedsifter

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Peter Doyle & Caleb Williams :: Thomas Bede, November 22, 1928 from City of Shadows

(Historic Houses Trust, 2005), a recollection of forensic crime photography, created by the New South Wales Police between 1912 and 1960 was rescued by the Historic Houses Trust from a flooded warehouse in the late 1980′s. This book draws on Peter Doyle’s extensive research into these fascinating and often eerily beautiful images of everyday misadventure in Sydney between 1912 and 1948. / via djinn gallery / text source: bol.com

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