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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