Guilty of selling opium and fake cocaine.
When ‘Harry Leon Crawford’, hotel cleaner of Stanmore was arrested and charged with wife murder he was revealed to be in fact Eugeni Falleni, a woman and mother, who had been passing as a man since 1899. In 1914, as ‘Harry Crawford’, Falleni had married the widow Annie Birkett. Three years later, shortly after she announced to a relative that she had found out ‘something amazing about Harry’, Birkett disappeared.
Guilty of breaking into an army warehouse and stealing boots and overcoats to the value of 29 pounds 3 shillings.
Theft.
An
entry in the Supplement to the NSW Police Gazette Sydney for Skukerman,
(alias Kukarman, alias Cecil Landan) is captioned ‘obtains goods from
warehousemen by falsely representing that he is in business’.
A safebreaker.
Kong
Lee makes numerous appearances in the NSW Police Gazette as a ‘safe
blower’ and ‘thief’, and is noted in the issue of February 1929 as
having recently been seen riding trains ‘in the company of card sharpers
and spielers’.
A
con man who sells suburban building blocks at grossly inflated prices,
by falsely leading the buyers to believe the lots may be promptly resold
for a huge profit.
Convicted
in October 1924 of making counterfeit coins, and of having a coining
instrument (ie a mould) in his possession, for which he was sentenced to
two years imprisonment with hard labour.
Theft.
Con man.
Illegal gambling.
Robbery under arms.
Sneak thief.
Stealing goods in custody, indecent langauge, stealing, receiving and throwing a missile.
Bigamy and theft.
Bootlegging.
Prostitution.
Theft of a fur coat.
Theft.
Convicted
of murder. Mrs Dorothy Mort was having an affair with dashing young
doctor Claude Tozer. On 21 December 1920 Tozer visited her home with the
intention of breaking off the relationship. Mort shot him dead before
attempting to commit suicide.
Backyard abortionist who also dabbled in theft and fencing stolen goods.
Prostitution.
Emily
Hemsworth killed her three-week-old son but could not remember any
details of the murder. She was found not guilty due to insanity.
Prostitution.
Theft of an umbrella.
Illegal abortion.
Brothel madam.
Bigamy.
Cocaine possession.
She
had multiple convictions for drunkenness, vagrancy and petty theft. Her
head was probably shaved upon her entry to prison to eradicate head
lice.
Source ; www.izismile.com
When ‘Harry Leon Crawford’, hotel cleaner of Stanmore was arrested and charged with wife murder he was revealed to be in fact Eugeni Falleni, a woman and mother, who had been passing as a man since 1899. In 1914, as ‘Harry Crawford’, Falleni had married the widow Annie Birkett. Three years later, shortly after she announced to a relative that she had found out ‘something amazing about Harry’, Birkett disappeared.
GBH (Grievous bodily harm).
Source ; www.izismile.com
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