[carkees]

Here's an addition to Mr. Goodbar's exellent post on early Australian mugshots. The ladies:


1. Hazel McGuinness was charged along with her mother Ada for possesion of cocaine (in substantial quantities). Police discribed a raid on the McGuinnesses' Darlinghurst house during which the mother Ada threw a handbag containing packets of cocaine to her daughter shouting: "run Hazel".

2. Special Photograph no. D163. The NSW Police Gazette 29 October 1930, p. 827 lists Blake as 'charged with having cocaine unlawfully in her possession.' She was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment and fined 250 pounds.

3. Clara Randall worked as a travelling saleswoman for a jewellery company. She reported to police that her Bondi flat had been broken into and a quantity of jewellery stolen. It was later discovered she had pawned the jewellery for cash. A career criminal, Randall was sentenced to 18 months with light labour. DOB: 1884.

4. Many women, like Alice Sandford, capitalised on laws restricting the sale of alcohol after 6pm by setting up 'sly-grog shops': premises in which alcohol was sold illegally at exorbitant prices. The details of Sandford?s conviction have been lost. DOB: 1889.


5. Philomena Best stole silk and other goods valued at over 36 pounds (about $2000 today) from a Bourke shopkeeper. She was convicted and sentenced to 12 months with light labour. Convicted of larceny. Philomena Best stole sumptuous silk and other items from her employer Namut Khan of Bourke, in north-western New South Wales. Aged 33.

6. Elizabeth Singleton had multiple convictions for soliciting and was described in police records as a 'common prostitute'. She was imprisoned at Long Bay but the details of her sentence have been lost. DOB: 9 July 1905.

7. Special Photograph no. 1098. Nancy Cowman, 19, and Vera Crichton, 23, 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. Cowman (alias Divvers, alias Denvers) was eventually acquitted. Crichton was "bound over to appear for sentence if called upon within three years."


I hope I got them in the right order...

[Bastet]

These bad girls look as elegant as their male counterparts. Great post

[Cumulonimbus]

Nice post

[Faline]

[collaredgirl65]

[curvature]

Whats Aussie for " Tough Dames " or , B.W.Ps ?

There must be one . woo they lookin jade!

[Sharon]

Stunning images

[shoottokill]

old hags

[PoetsOfTheFall]

Great pics

[DiamondSmiles]

Most of them look like alot of the killers on, "Deadly Women".