Alfred Ladewig Circa 1920s
"Alfred Ladewig, alias Wallace, John Walker, Atkins; charged on provisional warrant with stealing by trick the sum of 204AUD, at Brisbane, the property of Alfred Walter Thomlinson"
Ah Chong, 11 July 1928
Fay Watson, 24 March 1928
Alfred Fitch, 18 August 1924
Albert Sing, 31 March 1922
"On 1 May 1922, a month after this photograph was taken, Albert Sing was sentenced to 18 months hard labour on three counts of receiving stolen goods, including fountain pens, cutlery and clothing"
Ah Low. May 31, 1928
Joseph Messenger. 1922
"Joseph Messenger and Valerie Lowe were arrested in 1921 for breaking into an army warehouse and stealing boots and overcoats to the value of 29 pounds 3 shillings"
Frank Murray Alias Harry Williams. 1929
"Harry Williams was sentenced to 12 months of hard labour in March 1929 for breaking, entering and stealing. He ‘disposes of stolen property to patrons of hotel bars or to persons in the street … professing to be a second-hand dealer"
John Walter Ford, Oswald Clive Nash. 1921
Sidney Kelly. 1924
"Sidney Kelly was arrested many times and much written about in newspapers during the 1920s, 30s and 40s.
He was charged with numerous offences including shooting, and assault, and in the 1940s was a pioneer of illegal baccarat gaming in Sydney"
Valerie Lowe, 15 February 1922
"Valerie Lowe and Joseph Messenger were arrested in 1921 for breaking into an army warehouse and stealing boots and overcoats to the value of 29 pounds 3 shillings"
Sidney Langby, 9 December 1924
"Sidney Langby, 18, was one of a group of seven young men convicted in early 1925 of a series of break and enters in Sydney"
Spencer Cornford, 9 December 1924
Greta Massey, 26 January 1923
"Greta Massey was an energetic impostor, forger and ‘hotel barber’ whose aliases included the surnames Gordon, Spencer, Crawford, Robins and Simpson as well as ‘Nurse Campbell’ and ‘Nurse Nicholas’"
Norman Wallace, 29 May 1923
B. Smith, Gertrude Thompson And Vera Mcdonald 25 January 1928
Thomas Maria, Arthur Wyatt, And Patrick Dangar (Alias Brosnan), C. 1920
Albert Stewart Warnkin And Adolf Gustave Beutler. 1920
"Albert Stewart Warnkin is listed in the NSW Police Gazette of 10 November 1920, as charged with attempting to carnally know a girl eight years old. No entry is found for Beutler"
George Whitehall. 1922
"George Whitehall, carpenter, handed himself into Newtown police after hacking to death his common-law wife, Ida Parker on Thursday afternoon 21 February 1922, at their home in Pleasant Avenue, Erskineville"
Ernest James Montague. 1927
Walter Keogh. 1922
"Identified as a pickpocket, and later in 1928 (26 December, Group 4 p. 15) as a ‘suspected person and bogus land salesman’"
Masterman Thomas Scoringe. 1922
Ack Samuels (Obscured), Howard Fletcher And Michael Patrick Ryan, 1 August 1930
Ernest Joseph Coffey. 1922
Jessie Longford, 22 July 1926
Isabella Higgs, 21 February 1924
May Blake, 1 September 1930
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