NSW NSFW mugshots

Selection of police files in Australia


Esther Eggers was charged with wounding a police officer with intent to do grievous bodily harm in Australia in 1919

Crime




Phyllis Carmier, alias Hume, criminal record number 515LB, 1 April 1921. State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay, NSW. Creator New South Wales. British-born Carmier was known as “Yankee” Phyllis because of her peculiar accent. She stabbed her “bludger”, or pimp, to death during a violent altercation in Crazy Cottage, a sly-grog shop in Surry Hills. Carmier attracted much sympathy in the media, who labelled her crime a justifiable homicide. Aged 32.




Alice Adeline Cooke (1922. Aged: 24) was convicted of bigamy and theft. By the age of 24 she had amassed an impressive number of aliases and at least two husbands.

Doris Poole appeared before the Newtown Police Court in 1924 charged with stealing jewellery and clothing. She had previously been convicted on a similar charge in North Sydney and so received a six-month sentence with light labour. Charged with: stealing. DOB: 6/6/1903. From: Sydney. Occupation: domestic duties.


Valerie Lowe, born about 1903 in Australia. Arrest: Breaking and Entering. Sydney. Methodist Church at Matraville. Wednesday 15th Feb 1922.