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By James Morton,Susanna Lobez
Gangland Melbourne information the exploits of an unforgettable solid of villains, crooks and mobsters who've outlined the felony and gangland scene in Melbourne from the overdue 1800s to the current day. during this compelling booklet, Britain's most sensible actual crime writer James Morton and barrister and criminal broadcaster Susanna Lobez tune the increase and fall of Melbourne's standover males, agreement killers, robbers, brothel keepers and drug buyers, and in addition research the position the police have performed in either aiding and hindering the expansion of those legal empires. particularly, Melbourne's legal previous is explored via its well-known villainous households, the Painters' and Dockers' union warfare of the Nineteen Seventies and the more moderen underworld gangland killings.Vivid and explosive, Gangland Melbourne is compulsive interpreting.
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Thefts, which until the 1860s had been opportunistic—from the back of wagons, unlocked houses and yards—became more professional. The detective division of the police was also on the up. John Christie, a champion boxer and rower and probably the best of the Melbourne detectives of the time, joined the force in 1867 when at the age of twenty-one he walked in off the street with a character reference. Within a matter of months his arrest record far surpassed those of other officers. One of the more professional jobs in the late 1860s was a series of silk robberies, which for a time went unsolved despite a £250 reward.
Most men in prison can, to this day, make a good case for their innocence and Bennett convinced Murray who, on his own release, paid to have Bennett’s claim investigated and also left money with the Salvation Army to pay his fare to join him in Melbourne, where in 1916 he had teamed up with Taylor. On 18 September the next year Murray, Bennett and Taylor robbed the Middle Park branch of the ES&A Bank. Murray was to go into the bank while Taylor took the role of observer and organiser. In theory it was an easy raid.
He does, however, seem to have had some good points. While in prison in Fremantle he met up with Robert David Bennett, who was serving a sentence for the rape of a young girl whom he had infected with venereal disease. ‘You are not fit to live in this world, because I have never heard a more horrible and disgusting story than that told in your case,’ said Mr Justice McMillan while ordering Bennett to be flogged. Most men in prison can, to this day, make a good case for their innocence and Bennett convinced Murray who, on his own release, paid to have Bennett’s claim investigated and also left money with the Salvation Army to pay his fare to join him in Melbourne, where in 1916 he had teamed up with Taylor.