Margaret Vyner was an Australian-born actress, model anddramatist from the 1930s until the 1950s when she teamed up with her husband to write plays, some that became very successful.Acknowledgment to https://forgottenaustralianactresses.com/2019/09/24/margaret-vyner-a-very-modern-australian-woman/which gave a good grounding of Margaret to present this episode
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Episode 231 - Shooting at the Opera House - Part 1
On the 24 July 1880 John Greer shot his wife, Annice,Annice’s lover M. A. Louis Soudry and himself at the Melbourne Opera House. He died a few days later while his wife and her lover survived.
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Shorts Episode #17 - Alice Adeline
Alice Adeline Woodbry, known as Dolly, was born in Tenterfield NSW in 1898. She was charged with stealing as a young woman, had a number of aliases and then committed bigamy!
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Episode 230 - Pretty Dulcie - Part 2
Pretty Dulcie was one of the many names the press coined Dulcie May Markham. She was attracted to, and associated with, many major criminals of the 1930s, 1940's and 1950s. She closely involved with Sydney’s razor gang in an era of organised crime. During her criminal career, she had amassed 100 convictions in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia for prostitution, vagrancy, consorting, assaulting police and the public, keeping a brothel, drunkenness, and drunk driving, and was sent to prison on numerous occasions.
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Shorts Episode #16 - Ernest James Montague
In 1936, Ernest Montague was described in thenewspapers as a ‘callous bigamist’ who had four aliases – Ernest James Kendrick, Graeme Monte Winston Chisholm, Kenneth Raymond Kelsey and John Montague.
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