Mug Shots Women 1920s-11 - from our story 'Villains In Furs: Incredible Mugshots of Female Prisoners in the Early 20th Century'

Mug Shots of Australian women prisoners 1920s

Title: Nellie Cassidy, criminal record number 446LB, 10 February 1919. State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay, NSW Creator: New South Wales. Dept. of Prisons Date: 10 February 1919 Format: Glass plate negative: b&w; 4.75 x 6. Subject: State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay mug shots women prisoners Description: Convicted of stealing. The jury could not decide whether Nellie Cassidy was guilty of 'stealing a lady's costume', or if she had merely acted as a fence, and so a special verdict 'that she was guilty of one or the other' was entered. Aged 23.

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