Dictionary of Sydney
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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Crime

Subject
Duelling in colonial Sydney
Fishers Ghost Creek
Henry Louis Bertrand
Kate Leigh
Kaye, Ruth Emilie
Law and order
Ley, Thomas John
Robbing the Bank: Australia’s First Bank Robbery
Shark Arm murder 1935
Shirley Beiger
Sydney’s Oldest Unsolved Murders
The Bridge Street Affray
The murder of Constable Joseph Luker
Tilly Devine
Webber, Iris
Animal Kingdom
Police Offences (Amendment) Act 1908
Summary Offences Act No 96, 1970
The Registry of Flash Men
Vagrancy (Amendment) Act 1929
Assassination attempt on Prince Alfred 1868
Bridge Street Affray
Eveleigh Railway Workshop robbery
Execution of Thomas Barrett 27 February 1788
Glenfield siege 1968
Graeme Thorne kidnapping 1960
Hilton hotel bombing 1978
Mount Rennie Rape Case
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Royal Commission of Enquiry into certain cases of alleged Kidnapping of Natives of the Loyalty Islands 1869
Royal Commission of Inquiry into the case of George Dean 1895
Society for the Suppression of Cattle-Stealing
Alford, John Ferris
Atkin, Robert
Barrett, Thomas
Barry, Edward Joseph
Bertrand, Henry Louis
Bertrand, Jane
Blackstone, William
Bladders, William
Bond, Alan
Bowden, Frederick Leopold
Brady, Patrick
Breeze, Mary
Brooker, William
Bruhn, Norman
Burn, Simon
Butler, Frank
Cameron, Nellie
Carver, Ben
Cochrane, Richard
Collington, James
Collins, Louisa
Creighton, John Wilford
Dean, George
Devine, James Edward (Jim)
Devine, Tilly
Dingle, James
Falleni, Eugenia
Farrell, George
Freeman, Samuel 'Jewey'
Gaffney, George Leonard
Hall, Joseph
Hancock, Robert (Bobby)
Hayes, Chow
Hill, John
Hodder, Jackie
Holmes, Margaret
Howard, Robert Rice
Jackson, Richard
Jenkins, John
Kaye, Ruth Emilie
Kinder, Maria Ellen
Lavell, Henry
Lee, James Ernest (Jack)
Leigh, Kate
Lewis, John (d 1794)
Ley, Thomas John
Luker, Joseph
Macdonald, William
Mackenzie, Stewart
Maley, Alfred James
Markham, Dulcie May
Matthews, Maisie
McLennan, Kathleen
McPherson, Lennie
Mellish, Wally
Mulhally, Patrick
Nguyen, Tuong Van
Pooley, William
Powles, Adrian
Prendergast, John William (Snowy)
Rourke, Valentine
Russell, John d.1820
Ryan, Ernest Alexander (Shiner)
Ryan, John
Samuels, Joseph
Sariwee, Vera May
Sautelle, Edwin Stanhope
Simmonds, Isaac
Smillie, Bill
Tattersdale, Thomas
Tomlinson, Walter Francis (Wally)
Turner, Thomas
Webber, Iris
Webber, William
Weyman, Eddie
Williams, Edward
Woods, Stanley
Woodward, Thomas
Worrall, William George
Contraband at Customs House, 11 July 1939
'Cooks River Cruelty' from The Police Report, Bell's Life in Sydney, 3 April 1852
'I'll Chop her in Halves!' Man's Threat to Slash Woman 1937
'No More Trouble', says Tilly Devine 1952
'There's a chiel among ye takin' notes' 1872
1920s depiction of the murder of Joseph Luker in 1804
A murder committed near Parramatta 1794
All that glittered was not gold: The change in the life of Shirley Beiger, November 1954
An affair of honour - newspaper article concerning duel between Henry Dumaresq and Robert Wardell in March 1827
Andrew George Scott, alias Captain Moonlite, c1879
Attempt on the life of the Duke of Edinburgh, arrest of O'Farrell 1868
Attempted assassination of HRH Duke of Edinburgh at Clontarf 1868
Bertrand & Kinder tragedy; being the account of the extraordinary trial of Mr and Mrs Bertrand, and Mrs Kinder, and the subsequent trial and conviction of Louis Bertrand at the Criminal Court of New South Wales for the murder of Henry Kinder, of the City
Blonde model weeps at inquest September 1954
Bucket, turpentine bottle and funnel; presumably a Crown exhibit in the trial of the IWW Twelve, 1919
Captain Moonlite, Darlinghurst Gaol, 26 November 1879
Capture and death of bushranger Ben Hall 1865
Charles Montgomery (alias Thomas Millidge, Charles Buck and Charles Millige) Darlinghurst Gaol 9 March 1894
Cover of book 'The Shark Arm Case' by Vince Kelly, published by Horwitz Publications 1963
Description of the execution of Thomas Barrett in Arthur Bowes Smyth's journal, 27 February 1788
Description of the trial and execution of Thomas Barrett in Arthur Bowes Smyth's journal, February 1788
Entry for Kate Barry (Kate Leigh) in State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay Photographic Description Book No 839, 26 May 1932
Eugene Falleni, Long Bay Photographic Description Book, 1928
Eugenia Falleni, alias Harry Crawford, criminal record number 741LB, 16 August 1928. State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay, NSW
Examples of the negatives and envelopes, Crime Scene exhibition 1999
Frank Butler, alias Frank Harwood, alias Frank Ash, Darlinghurst Gaol Photographic Description Book 4 May 1897
Frank Green prison record 1933
Gill Bowen Daniels outside the Coroner's Court, September 1954
Guido Calletti prison record c1930
Henry James O'Farrell, author of the assassination attempt on Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, 1868
Henry James O'Farrell, author of the assassination attempt on Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, 1868
Henry Louis Bertrand c1865
Iris Eileen Mary Webber 20 November 1941
Iris Webber 20 November 1941
James Edward Devine jail photograph 25 August 1939
James Edward Devine jail photograph 6 March 1923
John Jenkins 1834
Long Bay Description Card for Eugenia Falleni 1920-40
Long Bay Gaol photograph of Eugenia Falleni, 1920
Louisa Collins, Darlinghurst Gaol Photographic Description Book, 1888
Matching cased pair of French .50 calibre duelling pistols with accessories, used by Sir Thomas Mitchell in Sydney in 1851
Matilda Devine 6 December 1943
Matilda Devine State Reformatory for Women Long Bay Photo 659 27 May 1925
Matilda Devine criminal record number 659LB, 27 May 1925, Long Bay Gaol
Moments in life of a model: Shirley Beiger 1954
Mr and Mrs Kinder c1865
Mrs Bertrand c1865
Mrs Millicent Tangga 1945
Mug shot of Eugenie Falleni 1920
Nellie Cameron criminal record number 792LB, 29 July 1930, Long Bay Gaol
New South Wales Police Photo Book. Iris Eileen Mary Webber. 20 November 1941. No 163/139
Newspaper advertisement for Madame Sohier's Waxwork Exhibition at 222 Pitt Street 20 March 1866
Newspaper report of trial in the Supreme Court of the perpetrators of the Myall Creek massacre, 15 November 1838
No You Don't! Water police repel American sailors attempting to break into Biloela 1871
Norman Bruhn's entry in the Central Register of Male Prisoners, Melbourne 1921 - 1926
O'Farrell in Darlinghurst 1868
Page from Collin's 'Account of the English colony in New South Wales' about the death of John Lewis 1794
Photo of Kate Barry, fron the State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay Photographic Description Book, 26 May 1932
Photograph of Norman Bruhn from his entry in the Central Register of Male Prisoners, Melbourne October 1921
Police Gazette notice about arrest of Eugenie Falleni, 1929
Police Gazette notice about death of Annie Birkett, October 1917
Police arrive with exhibits at Coroner's Court for inquest into death of Arthur Griffith, September 1954
Police record of John Tighe alias Wilson, 30 June 1880
Police record of William Smith, 1880
Police! 1872
Portrait of Patrick Brady, suspect in the Shark Arm case c1935
Portrait of TJ Ley 1925
Report of Joseph Luker's murder in the Sydney Gazette 28 August 1803
Report of the schooner Alligator on the Georges River 1826
Second page of the Registry of Flash Men c1841
Selection of Police Incident reports from the Sydney Herald in 1831 involving women who were sent to the Female Factory
Sentences handed down to Thomas Berington and Elizabeth O'Brien by W Broughton, the magistrate in the Sydney Court of Criminal Jurisdiction on 29 June 1814
Shirley Beiger arrives at the Coroner's Court for the inquest into the death of Arthur Griffith, 7 September 1954
Study in Scarlet: Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine 1950
Tattooed arm disgorged by shark at Coogee Acquarium 1935
The Bodgie-Widgie Cult: Its bad influence is spreading 1951
The Bridge Street Affray, February 1894
The Bridge Street Burglars: Graphic Account of the Execution in 'The Bird O'Freedom', 2 June 1894
The Mount Rennie Outrage 1887
The death of McIntyre and Phillip's orders, December 1790, from Tench's 'A complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales' 1793
Theft from the lumber yard 1829
Thomas Williams (alias Thomas Carroll, Thomas Clarke, Thomas Cawl and Thomas Curley) Darlinghurst Gaol 9 March 1894
What Sick Shark Revealed, front page of the Sydney Truth 5 May 1935
Eugenia Falleni, from These Walls Have Ears: Infamous, 2013