Mugshots: photos from the NSW Police Criminal Register
Among the strange books I’ve collected over the years is a melancholy volume of photographs, designed as a supplement to the 1944 NSW Police Criminal Register. It’s a sad collection…
Among the strange books I’ve collected over the years is a melancholy volume of photographs, designed as a supplement to the 1944 NSW Police Criminal Register. It’s a sad collection…
When Kevin John Simmonds and prison cellmate Leslie Alan Newcombe escaped from Sydney's Long Bay jail on October 9, 1959, the manhunt that followed was the biggest in Australian history.…
I am obliged to my friend Elaine Sheehan, the daughter of Charlie Thompson (who, coincidentally, once lived next-door to my mother), for access to many of the documents relied on…