August 11, 1924 New South Wales, Australia Patrick Riley's mugshot is taken Riley was arrested for counterfeiting coins with a mold and sentenced to 2 years of hard labor.
Category: Australia
Vintage mugshot: safe-cracker (1924)
August 5, 1924 New South Wales, Australia Mug shot of Guiseppe Fiori, alias Permontto No information is associated with this photograph, though Fiori had been previously arrested under safe-cracking charges [Source | Sydney Living Museums]
Vintage mugshot: William Cahill
July 30, 1923 Sydney, Australia William Cahill’s mugshot is taken No details can be found through newspapers of the time nor the New South Wales Police Department where the mugshot originates. [Source]
Vintage mugshot: four arrested for robbing bookie’s house
July 20, 1921 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Hampton Hirscham, Cornelius Joseph Kevin, William Thomas O'Brien, and James O'Brien are arrested for robbing a bookie's house William Thomas O'Brien was not prosecuted, and the other 3 were sentenced to 15 months in jail. [Source]
Warrior killed, decapitated, and displayed
July 11, 1833 Belhus, Perth, Western Australia Yagan, an Indigenous warrior, is killed and decapitated, his head smoked and put on display as an "anthropological curiosity" Yagan had a bounty placed on him, dead or alive, for killing a white servant. The killing of the servant was an act of retaliation after a different white… Continue reading Warrior killed, decapitated, and displayed
