crime Archives ~ Photo Time Tunnel

Mugshots: photos from the NSW Police Criminal Register

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:October 25, 2020
Post category:History Miscellaneous Vintage Photographs and Photography

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…

Manhunt: the Simmonds escape and arrest, 1959

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:August 29, 2020
Post category:History

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.…

Charlie and the detective: a vintage Australian true crime epic

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:July 5, 2020
Post category:Greg Ray's Writing History Miscellaneous Newcastle, NSW, Australia

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…