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Crimes and Criminals

  • Blue Anchor Push

    The Blue Anchor Push was a gang of local youths who were the cause of much trouble in Northcote in the early...
  • Bushrangers

    During the early 1850s Arthurton Road in Northcote had a reputation as being the haunt of bushrangers and...
  • Child murder at Northcote, 1905

    On Sunday 25th December 1904 the body of a new born child was found floating in the Merri Creek near...
  • Croxton Park Case

    A race meeting on December 28, 1872 at the Croxton Park Racing Club was the source of a controversy that was...
  • Did Squizzy Taylor rob the Thornbury Bank?

    Well known criminal Leslie (Squizzy) Taylor was arrested in connection with a bank robbery that occurred in...
  • Fairlea Women's Prison - Yarra Bend

    From Melbourne’s earliest days the housing of prisoners was a concern to the government of the day. The...
  • Fatal Stabbing at Northcote, 1902

    On Thursday 8 November 1902 Michael Wynne and Patrick Gibbons exchanged heated words which led to blows being...
  • Girl narrowly escape's ex-boyfriend's revolver

    Thornbury was tangled in scandal with the attempted murder of 18 year-old Hilda Veronica Taylor. At near on...
  • Home invasion - Fairfield 1933

    On Saturday 6 May 1933, Miss Forence Conran, aged 16, had a traumatic experience when two armed men forced...
  • Home invasion ends in tragedy

    In May 1996, retired businessman, Orfeo (Alf) Baldissera, 69, was tied up, violently attacked and murdered in...
  • Jacob Borkheim - Murder - Part 1

    At 4 o’clock on the afternoon of 9 March 1921 Northcote’s High Street was shattered by the sound of three...
  • Jacob Borkheim - Murder - Part 2

    The following comprises an account of the sensational trial of murdered Northcote pawnbroker and watchmaker...
  • John James Maguire - suspected murder, 1868

    District Coroner, Mr. Candler, was presented with an inquiry into the death of John James Maguire whose body...
  • John James Maguire - suspected murder, 1868

    District Coroner, Mr. Candler, was presented with an inquiry into the death of John James Maguire whose body...
  • Murder of two children by their mother and suicide of the murderess

    On the 18th December 1857 Samuel Jeffrey, a local Preston farmer was passing by the Agnew property when he...
  • Neighbourhood disagreement ends badly

    A most peculiar case was reported in newspapers both locally and around the country during April and May...
  • Northcote baby murder, 1903

    One of the saddest crimes committed in Darebin was the murder of a tiny infant by Charles Glanfield and Henry...
  • Palm reader arrested

    On the 6th July 1929 Rebecca Casey, of David Street Preston used "a subtle art" (i.e. palmistry) to tell the...
  • Payroll Murder, 1938

    On Thursday 2 September 1938, Frederick William Sherry (of Sherry Shoe Factory, 171 Roseneath Street...
  • Robert Duff

    On the 18th November 1833 the barque Edward Coulston arrived in Sydney from Liverpool. Amongst its passengers...
  • Samuel Brownlow

    Samuel Brownlow was first mentioned in the Argus newspaper on 31 August 1854 when he was one of a number of...
  • Shocking case of alleged murder and suicide

    One of the first first recorded murders in Darebin occurred in early August 1859. On Friday 19th August, the...
  • Twomey’s Garage break in

    On the morning of 5th January 1940 there was a break it at Twomey’s Garage at the back of 411 High Street...
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