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12-03-2011, 08:19 AM
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Re: 30 Hi-res Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s (sydney, Australia) +descriptions of Crimes
Love this thread. Some of those guys look like they were posing for fashion plates, not mugshots!
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12-03-2011, 02:57 PM
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Re: 30 Hi-res Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s (sydney, Australia) +descriptions of Crimes
mentioned in my other similar thread but......fashion guy Ralph Lauren actually bought the right to some of these photos so he could display them in his shops in north america. quite cool i thought
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12-04-2011, 11:30 AM
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Re: 30 Hi-res Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s (sydney, Australia) +descriptions of Crimes
I can see why he'd do that. They could teach people a thing or two about looking smooth. Can you imagine the men in those pictures reaction to kids walking round with their asses hanging out of their jeans? They'd probably have a collective stroke, lol. |
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12-08-2011, 03:23 AM
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Re: 30 Hi-res Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s (sydney, Australia) +descriptions of Crimes
Some more info on Eugenia Falleni. The so-called man-woman Eugenia Falleni in 1920 Born in Florence, Eugenia Falleni went to New Zealand with her parents at an early age. At 16, she adopted the appearance of a young man and ran away to sea. She worked as a male on vessels in the Pacific Islands, but gave birth in 1899 to a daughter, Josephine, in Newcastle. "Despite this minor setback to her career as a male," Tedeschi said, Falleni resumed her identity as a male, using the name Harry Crawford. She approached a childless couple in Double Bay and told them that the baby's mother was dead. The couple agreed to bring up the baby as their own. Falleni visited her daughter every now and again but had little to do with Josephine while she worked in Sydney at menial jobs. In 1912, as Harry Crawford, she met Annie Birkett, a pretty widow of about 30 who also had a young child. She courted Birkett for two years and they married in 1914, moving into a house in Balmain with both children. Josephine had become aware of her "father's" true identity. "Not surprisingly," Tedeschi said, "Josephine proved to be a seriously troubled teenager." Almost incredibly, Crawford and Birkett lived a harmonious married life for three years until 1917, when Birkett discovered her husband's real gender. A few days later, Crawford persuaded Birkett to go for a picnic at a lonely bush spot in the Lane Cove River park. There he battered her into unconsciousness and then burnt her body on a bonfire. Three days later, Crawford took Birkett's young boy to The Gap at Watsons Bay, intending to throw him off the cliff. The boy refused to go to the edge of the cliff, so they returned home. In 1919, Crawford wooed another woman and married her in a registry office. Birkett's son had gone to live with an aunt and their suspicions about his mother's death led to a complaint to police. At her trial in 1920, Falleni wore women's clothing for the first time since 1899. She was convicted and sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Released in 1931, she died in a pedestrian accident in 1938.  · |
