Shorts Episode #29 - Australia's Tom Thumbs
American Charles Sherwood Stratton, a small statured man, achieved international fame as a member of PT Barnum’s touring sideshow troupe and named himself Tom Thumb – he appeared in Melbourne in 1870 ...
8 Feb 19min
Episode 250 - Cecil Pierpont - Part 2
Born Thomas Henry Augustine Penney, Cecil Pierpont was one of a number of aliases he used in Australia. Others included Cecil Rowe, Professor Gordon Rowe and Cecil de Vere, Gordon Vane Tempest Simpson...
8 Feb 38min
Episode 250 - Cecil Pierpont - Part 1
Born Thomas Henry Augustine Penney, Cecil Pierpont was one of a number of aliases he used in Australia. Others included Cecil Rowe, Professor Gordon Rowe and Cecil de Vere, Gordon Vane Tempest Simpson...
4 Feb 34min
Episode 249 - The Viscount
Percival George Whittall Percy was born into an English merchant family, educated in England, multilingual and employed by the large Far East trading company, Jardine, Matheson & Co. He came to Austra...
31 Jan 44min
Episode 248 - The Bogus Doctor
In a 1923 newspaper article, it outlined how William Mowbray under the title of Dr William De Vale, had slept with a number of his patients even though he was a married man with children.
27 Jan 35min
Episode 247 - Ettie Benn - Part 2
Ethel Benn was an extraordinarily athletic thief who never learned from her mistakes.
24 Jan 33min
Episode 247 - Ettie Benn - Part 1
Ethel Benn was an extraordinarily athletic thief who never learned from her mistakes.
21 Jan 32min
Episode 246 - Esther Eggers
Esther Eggers was born Esther Ann Reardon in Sydney in 1896. She first features in public documents as a 15 year old and was still committing misdemeanors in her late forties.
18 Jan 51min
