by Leigh Straw
Lost (McCubbin painting) 22
Lynch, Patrick 34
Mackay, William 123–4
Manderson, Desmond 113
Markell (Judge) 79
Maxwell (Justice) 82
Mayhew, Henry 47
McCubbin, Frederick 22
McHale, Michael 56
McKay, James, see Freeman, Samuel ‘Jewey’
McPherson, Lenny 202
Miller, Charles 52–4
Millgate, Gloria 210
Mirror, The (Perth) 173–4, 191, 197, 199
Mitchell, Mary 177–8
Montrose, Frederick 74
Moondyne Joe 183
Moran, Judy 8
Moss, Tara 8
narcotics, see also cocaine
chemists and dentists as suppliers 104
current Sydney usage 102
Dangerous Drugs Act 1927 105
Drug Squad responses 110
leading dealers 108
organised crime 120
Newman, Harry ‘Jewey’ 108–10
opium trade in Sydney 36
O’Reilly, J B 183
organised crime
code of conduct 137
key elements 120
leaders 5, 121
Leigh’s role 3–4, 8, 10–11, 114, 120–1, 124–5, 127–33, 137, 139, 213
matriarchs 8
narcotics 120
police response 3, 12, 113, 120, 123, 132
prostitution 120
role of gangs 49, 119
Palmer, J H 89–90
Palmer, John 41–2
Park, Ruth 46, 164, 208
Harp in the South, The 4
Parramatta Female Factory 27–8
Parramatta Industrial School for Girls 26–9, 95
Passmore, Charles 108
People
interview with Leigh 15, 179, 201, 209, 214
on Leigh’s Christmas parties 175
Ping, Willie 34
Pistol Licensing Act 1927 122–3
police
corruption 80, 82
drug raids 106
Drug Squad 105, 108, 110
‘Rogues Gallery’ 36
Sydney Criminal Intelligence Branch 123
undercover 36, 49, 76–7
vice squad 3, 75, 132, 157
Women’s Police 13, 98, 106, 110, 139
Police Offences (Amendment) Act 1908 36, 95
poverty and crime 47–8
Powals, Maud 13
Prendergast, John ‘Snowy’ 128–30, 170, 173
prostitution, see also Devine, Matilda ‘Tilly’ (née Twiss)
associated drug use 105, 108–9, 113
‘gingering’ 87–8
organised crime 120
Sydney history 88–99
Ranson, Alexander ‘Rex’ 157, 162
razor and gun wars 4, 11, 49, 115–19, 122–30, 135–7, 169, 217
Razor: Tilly Devine, Kate Leigh and the Razor Gangs (Writer) 207
Read, Mark ‘Chopper’ 12
Robertson (Detective) 58
Rogers, William 132
Ryan, Ernest ‘Shiner’
apparent reform 190–1
criminal career 186–91
death 199
escape in female disguise 54
Eveleigh Railway workshop robbery 51–5, 189
marriage to Leigh 11, 194–9
popularity in Fremantle 191, 199
prison 186–91
relationship with Leigh 182, 185–6, 191–4
Saffron, Abe 202
Samson, Frederick 199
Saw, Ron 210
Scone Advocate 175
Scott, Rose 154
Seduction Punishment Bill 1887 24
Shakespeare Hotel, Surry Hills 10, 71
Sly café, Surry Hills 167–8, 214, 217
Smith, Stan 202
Star Hotel 82
State Reformatory for Women 58–9
Sunday Telegraph 138
Surry Hills, see also Leigh’s properties
centre for prostitution 92–4, 96
crime 47–50
drug raids 1920s 106–7
drug trade 110
Frog Hollow 51–2, 187, 192
gentrification 167, 213
history 41–7
Leigh’s Christmas parties 174–7, 180, 214–15
organised crime 120
razor gangs 118
Riley Street Gang 50
Sly café 167–8, 214, 217
Trinity Bar and Bistro 217
Sydney Morning Herald
on gang violence 126–7
letter on drunkenness 66
letter on sly-grog trade 78
memoriam for Charlotte Beahan 111
stories on gang wars 4
stories on Leigh 169
on women’s prison 59
Sydney Rescue Work Society 92, 95
Tatham, Arthur 55
Taylor, Joseph ‘Squizzy’ 216
Thompson, Charles 159–60
Thorpe, Robert 68
Time Out 208
Tomlinson, Walter ‘Wally’ 115–17, 125–9, 131
Tradesman’s Arms Hotel 34, 45, 210
Trinity Bar and Bistro, Surry Hills 217
Truth
on crime 48
on Devine/Leigh rivalry 140–1
on drugs and prostitution 105
on gang warfare 119
on Leigh 3–4, 112–13, 132–3, 134–5, 168–9, 193, 197, 204
letter from Devine 144–5
on motherhood 154–5
photographs of Leigh 7–8, 170
on shooting of Prendergast 128–31
‘worst woman in Sydney’ 141, 173
Truth (Perth) 188
Turbet (Detective) 58
Twiss, Matilda, see Devine, Matilda ‘Tilly’ (née Twiss)
Twiss, Norman 52–5
Twiss, Richard 139
Underbelly: Razor [TV series] 138, 207–8
Vagrancy Act 1929 3, 95, 135
vagrants 32
Walden, Ron (Sergeant) 202
Ward, Russell 212
Weston, Esther Kate 23
Wickham, Thomas ‘Tom’ (Detective Sergeant) 13, 108, 111–12, 119
Wild Women of Sydney (Blaikie) 45
Wilkinson, Dean 167
Williams, Maisie 13–14, 101
Williamson, William Roy 132
Wilson, Eileen 130
Wilson, Wendy 199
Writer, Larry 207