Title: Phyllis Carmier, alias Hume, criminal record number 515LB, 1 April 1921. State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay, NSW. Creator: New South Wales. Dept. of Prisons Date: 1 April 1921 Format: glass plate negative : b & w ; 4.75 x 6.5". Inscription: Emulsion side: 515LB, 17/1, /U, (1/00), 14, P.HUME, 1.4.21 Subject: prisoners mug shots Description: British-born Carmier was known as 'Yankee' Phyllis because of her peculiar accent. She stabbed her 'bludger' (or pimp) to death during a violent altercation in a sly-grog shop in lower Campbell Street, Surry Hills. Carmier attracted much sympathy in the media, who labelled her crime a justifiable homicide.
