Episode 140 - The Double Hanging
On the 31 May 1894 ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard (from Episode 133) supervised a double execution at Darlinghurst. The two men, known as The Bridge Street Burglars, were Thomas Williams (alias Thomas Carroll) a...
8 Jan 202545min
Episode 139 - Dr Bonnefin
Thomas James Creed had aliases James Clarke and Dr Bonnefin, and was jailed a number of times for counterfeiting, larceny and obtaining goods under false pretenses in the 1870s and 1880s.
8 Jan 202539min
Episode 138 - James Flinn
*Warning there is grahic information contained in this episode* James Flinn under one of his aliases, Henry Wilkinson, was the only man hung in Albury NSW.
5 Jan 202539min
Episode 137 - The first settler to officially discover gold in Australia
Edward Hammond Hargraves was credited with discovering the first payable gold in Australia near Bathurst, New South Wales in 1851, although this was not without controversy, as a number of men felt th...
5 Jan 202531min
Episode 136 - Mrs Livesey - Part 2
Ethel Livesey was a serial fraudster who became a media sensation after she ran out on her Sydney society wedding in 1945 and was later arrested for obtained goods by false pretences.
1 Jan 202530min
Episode 136 - Mrs Livesey - Part 1
Ethel Livesey was a serial fraudster who became a media sensation after she ran out on her Sydney society wedding in 1945 and was later arrested for obtained goods by false pretences.
1 Jan 202540min
Episode 135 - Captain Starlight
Frank Pearson was an Australian bushranger, operating under the pseudonym Captain Starlight. He was a pathological liar, serial impostor, thief, conman and killer and an artist who painted and drew in...
29 Des 202448min
Episode 134 - Oscar W
Franz Oscar Wallin, nicknamed ‘Charlie’, was born in 1867 at Norrköping, Sweden. He trained as a seaman in the Swedish Navy. He jumped ship in Sydney. He originally worked as a wood cutter near Seymou...
29 Des 202429min
