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Strike Force Picadilly
198

Strong, John Patrick
213

Stuart, Barry Matt
205–6

Stuart, William
100–2

Stylianou, Georgios
202

suicide by cop
183

Sullivan, Gary
131–2
,
133

suppression orders
xi

Surridge, Barbara
92–4
,
98

Surridge, William
93–4

Sutcliffe, Edward
21

Swan, Joseph
183

Symes, Evelyn
71

syringes as weapons
200
,
205

Tandy, Sue
122

Tange, Stuart Harold
199

Taousanis, Jim
115–17

Tart, Mei Quong
22–3
,
25

Task Force Magnum
131

Task Force Oak
192

Tasmania, bushrangers
1
,
10–11
,
14

Tatham, Arthur
38
,
39

Tatt's Club, Melbourne
101

Taxation Department payroll snatch
135

Taylor, Angus
21

Taylor, Charles
6

Taylor, Daniel
136

Taylor, Joseph Leslie ‘Squizzy'
44
,
46
,
50
,
51
,
52–3
,
54
,
55
,
56
,
57
,
58

Taylor, Thomas
56

Tees, Arnold
124

Temby, Ian
124

‘thieves' ponces'
102
,
149

Thomas, Emma (aka Quin Ding)
49
,
211

Thomas McLaughlin & Co
67

Thomas, Maxwell
166

Thomas, Ronald
166–7

Thompson (aka Bairstow), Harold ‘Bush'
44–6

Thompson, John
40

Thompson, Noel
118–19

Thornton, James
117

Thunderbolt, Captain (Fred Ward)
5
,
13
,
14

Thurgar, Roy
127
,
137

Tidmarsh, Lloyd
134
,
136
,
193

Tilley, Peter Alan
202

Tobacco Gang
16
,
18

Toecutters Gang
102–3
,
104
,
111
,
214

Tomlinson, Walter
192

Trades Hall robbery
47
,
48
,
48–52

train robberies

Canberra mail train
86
,
88

on Eidsvold–Cracow mail train
82

Great Ghan Robbery
78–9

Great Train Robbery; Britain
108

on Guildford to Perth train
64
,
75–8

last great American train robbery
83

mail train robberies
79
,
83

Mudgee train robbery
85–90

Oodnadatta construction camp
78

‘The Horror on the Rocky Mail'
79–82

on Townsville–Mount Isa line
83

Trautwein, Theodore
23
,
24

Trotter, Arthur
45

Trotter, Beatrice
45
,
46

Turner, Ian William (‘Country Bandit')
186–7

Turner, Joseph Patrick ‘Joey'
148–51

Twiss, Norman
38
,
39

Twist, Jack Eric
149

Tynan, Steven
188

Union Steamship Company, Sydney
16

urban crime, by 1880s
16

Valentine, Herbert (Lady Armstrong)
17

Van Der Weyden, Jane
167

Vane, John
8
,
10

verballing
104

Verheyden, Paul Francis
191

Vicar, Robert
147

victim impact statements
161

Victoria Mint robbery
47

Victoria Police Special Operations Group (SOG)
141

Victorian Club
100
,
108–9

Vincent, Jamie
202–3

Vincent, ‘Teflon' Tony
202
,
203

Virgo, William
78

Visentin, Hayden
191

Visentin, Maxine
190–1

Visentin, Paul
190–1

Wade, Peter
167

wage heists
7
,
36
,
145
,
156

Walker,
Constable
5

Wallace, Selwyn
146

Walsh, Frank
83

Walsh, Matthew
72–3

Walsh, Sandra
114

Walsh Street shootings
189

Walters, Pearl
73

Ward, Alexander
49
,
50–1

Ward, Fred (Captain Thunderbolt)
14

Ward, James
19

Warren, Jack ‘The Fibber'
106

Watson, Roger
30

Watts, Edward
41

Way,
Sir
Samuel
53

weaponry
198

Webb, Frank
22

Webster & Cohen, Melbourne
47

Weiberg, Martin
27–9

Weinberg,
Justice
142

Weir, Alan John
132

Wells, Joseph
7

Welsh, Eric
164

Western Australia, transport of gold
7

Western, Philip
184

Westpac, Northbridge
173–4

Wheale, Henry
85

whippings
12
,
21
,
49
,
51
,
62
,
72

white collar crime
202–3

Whitehead, John/James
10

Whitfield, Edgar
72

Whitfield, Raymond
68
,
69

‘Wild Colonial Boy' (Jack Donohoe)
2

Wildblood, Edward
vii
,
192

Wilkinson, JJ
32

Wilkinson, Roy Edward
86
,
87

Williams, Carl
107

Williams, Charles
82

Williams (aka Carroll), ‘Curly'
16–17

Williams (alias Hobbs), Harold
61
,
62

Williams, John
6

Williams, Joyleen
166–7

Williams, Ronald Joseph
173

Williams, Ronald Stanley
147–8

Williamson, John
52–3

Willis, Cherie
139

Wilson, Jack Edward
119–20

Wiltshire, Bob
78

Windeyer,
Sir
William
24–5

Winneke,
Judge
63

Winslade, Lindsay
196

Witness Protection Security Programme (Witsec)
124–5

Wolston Park Hospital wages heist
156
,
159

Wood,
Judge
124

Wood, Thomas
42

Woodland, Henry
99

Woods, Richard
84

Woods, Samuel
4–5

Woodward, Thomas
viii

Woolcock, Lance James
127

Woolford, Snowy
23–4

Woon, Leslie
99–104
,
109

Woon v R
104

Wren, John
50

Wright,
Capt
Walter
ix

Wright, Ray
155–7
,
158

Young, Nicole Linda
164

Young (aka Woods), Samuel
4–5

Zammitt, Louis
73

 

The Robbery at the National Bank in Simpson's Road, an illustration by FA Sleap, 10 June 1885, shows the manager, Mr JB Humphreys and the accountant, Mr A Bradshaw being assaulted by three armed robbers wearing face masks. State Library of Victoria

Painting of bushranger Frank Gardiner's gang by Patrick Marony, c. 1894. Clockwise from bottom left: Gilbert, Ben Hall, Bourke (Burke), Frank Gardiner (King of the Road) and Dunne (Dunn). National Library of Australia

Bushranger Jack Bradshaw, who held up a bank at Quirindi, NSW in the 1930s. News Ltd/Newspix

Squizzy Taylor—Australia's ‘favourite larrikin' or a murderer, bludger and blackmailer? Victoria Police

Squizzy Taylor's ‘all weather' companion, the stylish Ida Pender. Victoria Police

Squizzy Taylor was buried with his infant daughter. Frankie Bateson

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