Ep 173 - The Many Crimes of Kate Leigh & Tilly Devine

Ep 173 is loose and we're headed down under to tell the tale of two crime bosses on the streets of Sydney.

How did two women rise to power on the streets of the city? What is sly grog? And is the taxman the greatest poison of them all?

The secret ingredient is...grog!

Sources this week include NSW Museums of History, Sydney Morning Herald Archives, Razor by Larry Writer, The Worst Woman In Sydney by Leigh Straw, Rejected Princesses, HistoryRaeTold, National Library of Australia, The Herald Sun, The Dictionary of Sydney

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