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On this week in... 1911

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On 1 October 1911, Kate Clancy and Sarah Jones were tried at the General Sessions in Melbourne for larceny from the person. Their alleged victim, who described himself as a ‘gentleman of independent means’, had met the two women in Exhibition Street after Jones asked him if he was looking for a girl. He shouted the women drinks at several hotels before finding he was missing about ten pounds from his pocket. The women were found not guilty on this occasion, but were not so lucky three years later when they were arrested on a similar charge and received six months hard labour each.

This trial report is from The Argus

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