p. 44
| Quite apart from minor hold-ups:
For details of the poker-game robbery and subsequent shenanigans, see Geoff Caylock,
Charlie: As Game as Ned Kelly
.
|
p. 44
| Of a âquintette' named as âbad':
The others were Emily Cresswell and May Anderson, who worked the Ginger Game, and thieves Thomas de Gracie and Robert Daws.
|
p. 45
| It was that of a youth just entering manhood:
âThe Trotter Tragedy',
Truth
(M), 11 January 1913; âMurder Mystery Still Unsolved',
Truth
(M), 18 January 1913.
|
p. 46
| Squizzy Taylor and Dolly Gray:
âThe Fitzroy Murder',
Advertiser
, 17 January 1913.
|
p. 46
| He had with him a doll:
Northern Miner
, 20 August 1913.
|
p. 47
| Jackson was 51 years of age:
Western Mail
(Perth), 28 January 1916.
|
p. 47
| He had, it appears, failed:
Bendigo Advertiser
, 7 December 1907.
|
p. 49
| Buckley called an alibi in the form of a mixed-race prostitute:
Six months earlier, in June 1883, Thomas and Ah Ket were charged with the murder of Ah Gayong in Little Bourke Street. The alleged motive was robbery, and she and Ah Ket were the last people seen leaving Ah Gayong's premises before his death after what the
Age
called âa disgraceful orgie'. Emma Thomas was discharged on 28 June, and in August Ah Ket was found not guilty.
|
p. 49
| If I liked I could order you to be kept:
âOh !Dick! A Lifetime in Gaol',
Daily News
(Perth), 10 April 1897.
|
p. 52
| Three witnesses who had seen:
Victoria Police Gazette
, 2, 9 March 1916.
|
p. 55
| As he scaled it, he touched an alarm:
Victoria Police Gazette
, 30 August 1923.
|
p. 55
| The driver was to be Taylor:
Alan Dower,
Deadline
, p. 9.
|
p. 56
| Truth, for one, thought it was:
âIs Buckley Dead or Alive?',
Truth
(M), 12 January 1924.
|
p. 57
| Now the wings flapped:
Truth
(M), 1, 23 March 1924.
|
p. 57
| On 3 March the charge against him:
Victorian State Archives,
R v Murray and Taylor
Case No 29 1924 30/P/0000.
|
p. 57
| I receive no credit for:
Truth
(M), 7 June 1924.
|
p. 58
| These are my parting words: I am not guilty:
The Pierce brothers, James and Henry, were charged with the murder of 60-year-old David Strang Davidson, shot in the garden of 3 Tennyson Street, St Kilda, on Melbourne Cup Day 1920. They had been on a housebreaking spree. There was doubt which of them had fired the fatal shot and there
were suggestions that Davidson might have accidentally shot himself. Convicted of manslaughter after a retrial, James was sentenced to twelve years and his brother to six.
Advertiser
, 5 April 1924.
|
p. 58
| When he broke his dentures:
Truth
(M), 31 July 1948.
|
p. 59
| Poor, wretched, wayward, careless, dangerous criminal:
Truth
(M), 5, 19 April 1924.
|
p. 59
| Like so many other early-released criminals:
Vince Kelly,
The Charge is Murder
,
Chapter 12
.
|
p. 62
| They received their fifteen strokes on 1 June:
Truth
(V), 9, 16, 30 April 1932, 22 February 1947.
|
p. 63
| âWas I not privileged to lie in the dock?':
Argus
, 28 May 1932.
|
p. 64
| He stole 30 shillings but missed:
Sydney Morning Herald
, 14 April 1945.
|
p. 64
| Charged fifteen times and convicted:
Courier Mail
, 28 November 1934; âState's Most Audacious Crook',
Truth
(Q), 2 December 1934.
|
p. 66
| Of the notes, there was no trace:
âConclurry Bank Loot in Buried Tin',
Truth
, 4 February 1934.
|
p. 67
| After Short's death,
Truth
published:
Truth
(Q), 8 July 1934.
|
p. 67
| Now came threats to blow up that gaol:
Truth
(Q), 5, 12 November 1933.
|
p. 68
| You will not be tolerated in my court:
Townsend Daily Bulletin
, 10 February 1934.
|
p. 68
| He then more or less turned his face:
Northern Miner
, 7 October 1933;
Truth
(Q), 2 December 1934.
|
p. 70
| âI cannot understand why the jury':
Truth
(Q), 9 August 1931;
The Advertiser
(Adelaide), 11 December 1931;
Courier Mail
, 10 March 1932.
|
p. 70
| Three other recently released men:
Truth
(Q), 1 August 1937.
|
p. 70
| In 1934 Reynolds hanged himself:
Argus
, 1 March 1927.
|
p. 73
| She had been visiting Walsh:
Jack Coulter,
With Malice Aforethought
;
West Australian
, 24 September 1936;
Kalgoorlie Miner
, 11 January 1943.
|
p. 74
| In the first week of April:
Advertiser
(Adelaide), 5 February 1943;
South Australian Police Gazettes
1941â43.
|
p. 74
| At the inquest, both Bray:
For the post-war murder of Bray, see James Morton and Susanna Lobez,
Gangland North South & West
.
|
p. 76
| On the day he was sentenced:
âThe Inside Tragic Life Story of the Curious Complex Known as Royston Rennie',
Truth
(WA), 24 July 1926.
|
p. 78
| His wife, who had visited him:
Tweed Daily
, 4 August 1926;
Western Argus
, 10 August 1926.
|
p. 78
| The credit for the expert tracking:
âWealth in a Rabbit Burrow',
Recorder
(Port Pirie), 2 July 1948.
|
p. 79
| This time, someone had to suffer:
Register
(Adelaide), 1 August 1928;
Adelaide Advertiser
, 31 May 1935.
|
p. 82
| The train conductor, Boys:
Vince Kelly,
The Charge is Murder
;
Sydney Morning Herald
, 27 June 1936;
Queenslander
, 2 July 1936;
Truth
(Q) 17 August 1941, 12 April 1942;
Truth
(SA), 30 August 1941;
Maryborough Chronicle
, 30 March 1951; âMurder on the Orient Express Bundaberg Mail',
Steam Scene
, Vol. 8 Issue 1, February 2011.
|
p. 83
| In 1938, when Henry Loftus and Harry Donaldson:
Loftus and Donaldson received sentences of fifty to seventy-five years.
|
p. 83
| At the end of Walsh's case:
Townsville Daily Bulletin
, 1, 21 September, 6 October 1938, 29, 30 June 1939.
|
p. 83
| The name derived from the original robber:
Sydney Morning Herald
, 12 March 1931.
|
p. 84
| It read âBeware of the lone wolf:
Sydney Morning Herald
, 1 November 1929.
|
p. 84
| âGrey Shadows and Blue Shadows:
Sydney Morning Herald
, 27 September 1929.
|
p. 84
| It was thought he had an accomplice:
âBail Up',
Daily Examiner
, 9 September 1929.
|
p. 84
| If it was indeed the Shadow:
Sydney Morning Herald
, 26 August 1929.
|
p. 85
| Whether he was the real Shadow:
Advertiser
, 7 February 1930.
|
p. 85
| Another man suspected of being:
Sydney Morning Herald
, 19 October 1929.
|
p. 89
| On 2 December 1935, after the jury:
Mark Tedeschi, âHistory of the New South Wales Crown Prosecutors 1901â1986',
The Forbes Flyer
, Autumn 2006 (Issue 11).
|
p. 89
| On 29 March 1944 he was found shot:
On Anzac Day 1935, the arm of blackmailer and dobber Jim Smith, identified by its tattoos, was regurgitated in Coogee Baths by a captured shark. A Patrick Brady was arrested for Smith's murder, and it was hoped that Holmes would give evidence, but he was found shot dead in his car on 11 June, in Hickson Road, Dawes Point, a known courting spot. The case against Brady collapsed and on 10 September he was acquitted on the chief justice's directions. Nor was the prosecution any more successful in the cases of the two men, John Patrick Strong and Albert Stannard, who were accused of Holmes's murder. The evidence was again weakâa flimsy identification and fingerprints found on the dashboard of Holmes's carâand the pair were acquitted shortly before Christmas that year. Alex Castles,
The Shark Arm Murders
;
Sydney Morning Herald
, 26 April, 13, 18 May, 15 June, 11 September, 11 October, 13, 14 December 1935.
|
p. 90
| In due course, Humby and Jordan:
Sydney Morning Herald
, 30 March, 4 April, 9 November 1944.
|
p. 101
| He lost an appeal, based on:
Woon v R
[1964] HCA 23; (1964)109 CLR 529; Oscar Roos, âThe Trouble with Woon: The Selective Answering of Police Questions and the Right to Pre-Trial Silence' [2006]
UNELawJ
1; (2006) 3(1)
University of New England Law Journal
;
Canberra Times
, 22 July 1964.
|
p. 102
| The team included another Painter and Docker:
Nittes, who sometimes used the aliases Mohr and Snow, had a mixed criminal career. On one occasion, so it is said, when he had tried to avoid being dealt with by a particular judge, his lawyer applied for an adjournment, saying Nittes was ill. The judge graciously granted the request, saying the case could be tried in a month's time. At the rescheduled hearing, the barrister claimed Nittes had suffered a relapse. The judge was sorry to hear it and said he would again wait. When on the third occasion there was still no defendant, he demanded an explanation and was told Nittes had been shot that morning.
|
p. 103
| By then, he had been involved:
Even the Toecutters, or some of them, seem to have had some principlesâDriscoll, for example, was said to refuse to operate on genitalia, and when it was suggested to him that they should pay close attention to the legendary Melbourne safecracker Donny Alexander, he was horrified.
|
p. 103
| According to robber Neddy Smith:
Neddy Smith,
Catch and Kill Your Own
;
Canberra Times
, 13 November 1970, 1 July 1971;
Age
, 16 February 1987.
|
p. 104
| A retrial was ordered:
Driscoll v R
[1977] HCA 43; (1977) 137 CLR 517.
|
p. 105
| Buchanan said they stole only:
Age
, 20, 24 November 1978.
|
p. 106
| Born in a Richmond slum, Kinniburgh:
He was also thought to have been the organiser of a bullion snatch in Queensland. Early in his career, he was charged with receiving stolen property from a burglary at the home of trucking magnate Lindsay Fox. When the police raided Kinniburgh's home, he was found to have a unique pendant owned by Mrs Fox in a coat pocket, as well as $4500 in cash in a drawer. He offered the police the cash if they did not charge him but they declined. He was charged with both the burglary and the bribery but had an identical pendant made in Hong Kong, so casting sufficient doubt in the jury's minds that the Fox pendant was unique.
|
p. 107
| Others would have none of it:
John Silvester and Andrew Rule,
Underbelly
; James Morton and Susanna Lobez,
Gangland Australia
.
|
p. 107
| During his long and overall:
Blewitt v R
[1988] HCA 43.
|
p. 110
| âWhen you think about it:
Daily Telegraph
, 9 June 1998.
|
p. 110
| Some of the profits went into the purchase:
âBookie Robbery Mobster Finally Runs Out of Lives',
Age
, 1 September 2010.
|
p. 111
| But, says one lawyer who watched:
Conversation with JM, 13 March 2009.
|
p. 112
| Prendergast had a brother, Billy Lewis:
VSR Inquest 1979/1955.
|
p. 112
| On 21 September, after retiring:
VSR Inquest 1979/1955.
|
p. 114
| Regarded as one of the great robbers:
Mark Buttler and Anthony Dowsley, âMelbourne Gangland Figure Dies',
Herald Sun
, 12 October 2010.
|
p. 114
| Then, even more recently, the name:
VSR Inquest 1983/1635;
Herald Sun
, 30 September 2012. For a full account of the bookie robbery, and the Bennett-Kane quarrel and killings, see James Morton and Russell Robinson,
Shotgun and Standover
.
|
p. 116
| He's one of the gentlest guys I know:
Glebe & Inner Western Weekly
, 2 August 2000.
|
p. 116
| As for Kalache, he was pleasantly:
R v Kalache
[2000] NSWCCA 2.
|
p. 117
| The judge stopped the trial:
R v Taousanis
[2001] NSWSC 57;
Herald Sun
, 14 November 1999.
|
p. 118
| Other versions have him returning:
Roger Rogerson,
The Dark Side
;
Sydney Morning Herald
, 12 June 1968.
|
p. 118
| Others are less convinced:
James Morton and Susanna Lobez,
Gangland Australia
; Neddy Smith,
Catch and Kill Your Own
.
|
p. 119
| In March 1975, amid allegations:
Canberra Times
, 17 May, 3 July 1974, 25 March 1975.
|
p. 120
| I guess you can't argue with that.
âA Turnkey's Tribulations',
laurie27wsmith.wordpress.com
|
p. 120
| He was sentenced to ten years:
Sydney Morning Herald
, 24 November 1987.
|
p. 120
| He said Wilson had told him:
Sydney Morning Herald
, 5 February 2005.
|
p. 120
| From then on, he led the flamboyant:
Cornwell v R
[2010] NSWCCA 59. For an account of the lives of the three men to 1984, see David Wilson and Lindsay Murdoch,
Big Shots
.
|
p. 121
| It was suggested that whoever:
Kate Askew, âA God Walks Among Us',
Sydney Morning Herald
, 5 February 2005.
|
p. 121
| I pissed it all out the window:
Conversation with JM, October 1985.
|
p. 122
| He was also a major importer of drugs:
David Wilson and Lindsay Murdoch,
Big Shots
.
|
p. 122
| Five o'clock in the morning tends:
John Silvester and Andrew Rule,
Tough
.
|
p. 123
| His criminal career began:
Michael Robotham, âYear End Review: Why Crime?', 31 December 2010, Mulholland Books website.
|
p. 123
| On 15 July 1988, his earlier escapes:
Hansard
NSW, 12 November 1991.
|
p. 124
| As well, he dobbed in Roy:
Pollitt v R
[1992] HCA 35; Alex Mitchell, âDenning's Great Escape',
Sydney Morning Herald
, 20 October 1991.
|
p. 124
| In April 1991 Judge Wood stated:
Sydney Morning Herald
, 12 June 1993.
|
p. 125
| As is often the case:
âCoroner's Finding Upsets Family',
Sydney Morning Herald
, 27 August 1994.
|
p. 125
| She was also charged with two:
NSW Ombudsman,
Raymond Denning: Withdrawal from the Witness Protection Scheme
; Donald Catchlove, Ray Denning:
My Life and Times
; John Silvester and Andrew Rule,
Tough
.
|
p. 125
| Amid a political row, but supported:
Cox v The Queen
S79/1997 [1998] HCATrans 154;
The Application of Russell John Cox
[2004] NSWSC 1341;
Sydney Morning Herald
, 17 October 2004; Mark Brandon Read,
Chopper
.
|