Mug Shots Women 1920s-41 - from our story 'Villains In Furs: Incredible Mugshots of Female Prisoners in the Early 20th Century'

Mug Shots of Australian women prisoners 1920s

Title: Dorothy Mort, criminal record number 773LB, 16 October 1929. State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay, NSW Creator: New South Wales. Dept. of Prisons Date: 16 October 1929 Format: glass plate negative : b & w ; 4.75 x 6.5". Inscription: Emulsion side: D.MORT.16.10.29, 773.L.B, 1 3 , U (00 1), 9, 121.213, G.1 Subject: prisoners mug shots Description: Mrs Dorothy Mort was having an affair with dashing young doctor Claude Tozer. On 21 December 1920 Tozer visited Mort's home intending to break off the relationship. Mort shot him dead and then attempted to commit suicide. She was released from gaol shortly after this photograph was taken and disappeared from the public eye.

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