35 0 obj The Cemetery Angel & The Queens of the Sydney Underworld Thomas Maria, Arthur Wyatt, and Patrick Dangar (alias Brosnan), c. 1920. [5], Leigh earned income, variously over these years, as a sly-grog trader, drug dealer, and as a madam;[5] she became a major New South Wales (NSW) underworld figure, and has been referred to as its "Queen of the Underworld. Crichton was bound over to appear for sentence if called upon within three years.. ', A newspaper report from May 1943 reports that police have raided Kate Leigh's Surry Hills house, finding 1001 bottles of beer and 84 bottles of whisky under the floorboards, Underbelly Razor cast beautiful actresses in the roles of Tillt Devine (in the red hat ) and Kate Leigh (in the black) hat in a glamourised version of the razor gang era, The article said Ms Leigh's 'official' occupation was shop keeper of a mixed business from the Surry Hills house and that 'she gives money to the Salvation Army and to church charities. Jones was further charged with stealing thirty horse rugs valued at 15 pounds and two bales of kapok valued 20 pounds. Suzanne's birth was difficult, and the mother . An era had truly ended. . Earlier that day Belle had attempted to collect a debt of 15 pounds from Mammone, who ran a barbershop in Leichhardt. 355 0 obj [2] She died on 4 February 1964 at St Vincent's Hospital in Darlinghurst, and her funeral was held on 7 February at St Peter's Catholic Church in Devonshire Street, Surry Hills and was attended by over 700 mourners. 485 0 obj Straw, a historian, is very good at setting the scene for each stage of her subjects life. Charles Frank Bottin. A man was not allowed on the premises unless he was accompanied by a woman. <>]/P 546 0 R/Pg 545 0 R/S/Link>> Alone and poor, with no family support, she gravitated to Darlinghurst and then Surry Hills, where over the years she would come to be known as Queen of the Hills or, even more affectionately, simply Mum. <>]/P 681 0 R/Pg 677 0 R/S/Link>> After divorcing him, she became a factory worker, a sex worker, stole, fenced goods, and would provide false alibis for money. The Police Gazette Photo Supplement of August 1925 lists him as Podmore, Alfred. Those charges were dropped but they were arrested again that same year for stealing a saddle and bridle from Rosebery Racecourse. By 1922, she was divorced and married a guy named Teddy Barry. endobj Its true that if men shared their power with women, if there were less segregation of genders into separate spheres of activity, then men as well as women would benefit. Hazel McGuinness was charged along with her mother Ada McGuiness with having cocaine (in substantial quantities) illegally in her possession. Arrow (Sydney, NSW : 1916 - 1933), Fri 25 Mar 1932, Valerie Lowe and Joseph Messenger were were charged with breaking and entering a dwelling in 1922. Ms Leigh had established her lucrative sly grog business well before then, capitalising on the 1916 edict by the then NSW Premier, who following a riot of pub crawling World War I soldiers, called a state of emergency and closed Sydney's pubs after 6pm. <>/Font<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 13/Tabs/S/Type/Page>> She was using another name not Sue. The problem lies with the sources. 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The shots were immediately taken right after these men and women were plucked from the street, so the photos were taken with the drama surrounding their 'apprehension' still in the air, which probably explains the expressions on their faces. When cocaine was outlawed in 1927, Ms Leigh sold both, at huge profits. Page 6 - KATE LEIGH'S DAUGHTER MAKES AN EFFORT TO VINDICATE HERSELF. Leigh . endobj Kate Leigh, or Kathleen Barry as she was known during her marriage to small time crim and sly grog dealer Teddy Barry, sold cocaine, other opiates and operated a brothel. In Larry Writer's book Razor he writes that in the 1960s, Kate Leigh was living at 212 Devonshire Street, but that she was by then impoverished - because aftre hours grog had been legalised. Alice Eileen Anna Leigh (1901 - 1967) - Genealogy %PDF-1.7 % The Nine network dramatised the book in the series Underbelly Razor, portraying Leigh and Devine as glamorous figures. It said she had once been the 'best looking girl' in Surry Hills and had become tremendously wealthy through being a tough businesswoman. <>]/P 684 0 R/Pg 677 0 R/S/Link>> 479 0 obj She was beloved for her acts of charity, including providing bail for first offenders to keep them from lives of crime, and hosting annual Christmas parties for the Surry Hills children. endobj 213 0 obj We are no longer accepting comments on this article. endobj The serial numbers of this and the Mug shot of Elsie Hall, Dulcie Morgan, Jean Taylor run in sequence, suggesting they were taken on the same day and, judging from the lighting, at the same time of day. The marriage broke up soon after the trial, though they were not divorced until 1921. Spencer Cornford, 19, was one of a group of seven young men (see also Sidney Langby) convicted in early 1925 of a series of break and enters. 478 0 obj Paragraph operations are made directly in the full article text panel located to the left.Paragraph operations include: Zone operations are made directly in the full article text panel located to the left.Zone operations include: Please choose from the following download options: The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized endobj 39. <>]/P 569 0 R/Pg 565 0 R/S/Link>> Police described a raid on the McGuinnesses Darlinghurst house during which the mother Ada threw a hand bag containing packets of cocaine to her daughter, shouting, Run Hazel!. The subjects are not named, but the woman on the left is believed to be Eileen Leigh or Barry (daughter of Kate Leigh). | women, 2023 Inside Story and contributors <> endobj Many years ago I met a woman who said she was the daughter of Vivien Leigh. 1920s Fashion Through the Lens of Police Mugshots By the 1950s, in her seventies, Leigh had become a matriarch of her community, the model for Delie Stock in Ruth Parks Harp in the South. ', The outdoor toilet at the back of the property (pictured) where thieves and prostitutes bought illegal alcohol after it was banned, allowing a flourishing trade in sly grog, Ms Leigh, pictured as a younger woman in her prison record when she served time at the Long Bay women's reformatory in Sydney, The kitchen inside Ms Leigh's old house has been left to fall into disrepair despite the front of the dwelling being renovated several times to house a flower shop and then a cafe. Its hard to believe, entering it now, that its beginnings were so bedevilled by vilification and controversy. 353 0 obj <>]/P 504 0 R/Pg 503 0 R/S/Link>> daughter. A POWERFUL car, with a chauffeur at the wheel, pulled up at "The Arrow" office one day during the week, and out stepped a woman. Zach Giroux/Staff. The subjects are not named, but the woman on the left is believed to be Eileen Leigh, daughter of Kate Leigh. <>]/P 542 0 R/Pg 526 0 R/S/Link>> In 1905, Lee was imprisoned for assault and robbery and Kate was accused of lying under oath to protect her husband and convicted of perjury and for being an accomplice to the assault. She is well known for shoplifting valuable furs and silks from city department stores. The home where she lived on Devonshire Street - one of 20 properties she operated as sly grog shops, including three on the same Surry Hills street - is now up for sale. By the age of 15, Kate married her first husband, Jack Lee, a half Chinese illegal bookmaker and petty criminal. On 27 March 1930, she shot and killed John William "Snowy" Prendergast[13] when he and other gangsters broke into her home at 104 Riley Street, East Sydney. 2 0 obj endobj 253 0 obj The D prefix on the serial number indicates that the photograph was taken on behalf of the Drug Bureau, which in the late 1920s consisted of two men, Detectives Wickham and Thompson. Two years later she appeared at Central Police Court in Sydney charged with having phenobarbitone in her possession. Here it is. Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine: The Queens of the Sydney Underworld endobj The irony is that it is only as a result of its remarkable gentrification that Leigh has finally received her due. endobj Go ask Julia Gillard or Hillary Clinton. Kate anglicised her part-Asian surname from Lee to Leigh, and she was mostly known by that name for the rest of her life, regardless of future marriages. Kate Leigh the sly grog queen and her criminal rival, brothel madam Tilly Devine pretend to be friendly but theirs was a bitter relationship, A 1950 magazine article described Kate Leigh, who lived at 212 Devonshire Street (pictured) for many years as ' tougher than most men, can punch, bite and gouge with the fierce courage of an animal', Kate Leigh's old house in Sydney's inner suburbs had been operating as a cafe called Sly, a nod to her old sly grog business which operated after dark on the premises in the 1920s-1940s, A People Magazine article in the 1950s described her and Ms Devine as 'the queens of Sydney's slumland' with 'an empire of brothels, gambling joints, verminous flop-houses, sly groggeries and gin mills. Smith and Jones were charged with stealing seven packages of twine valued at 14 pounds. Robert McFarlane (the middle man in this trio) is mentioned in the Police Gazette, 7 September 1921 in connection with the theft of three clocks, two sports coats and other articles from the warehouse of Dobson Franks Ltd. She was only child of Vivien Leigh and her first husband, barrister Herbert Leigh Holman. <>]/P 665 0 R/Pg 664 0 R/S/Link>> Yet other sources were hard to come by. endobj Harry Chapman was charged with stealing a motor cycle and side car (value 175 pounds) and a till containing money, value 17s. Father and son build sailboat for country music songwriter endobj endobj Three months later a police witness at Sydney Licensing Court stated that the premises at 2 Lansdowne Street, Surry Hills was "a notorious sly grog shop The Worst in Sydney". She had originally come from the central western NSW town of Dubbo where, as Kathleen Beahan, one of eight children of a Catholic bootmaker, she had been put in a girls' home at the age of 12 and gave birth to her first child, Eileen, the following year, in 1900. 39 0 obj Horoscope Sagittarius. A mutual friend invited me over to her house which was in the bush on an island . ', 'I want you to get this straight, I was the best friend Fay ever. The house at Devonshire Street, Surry Hills, as pictured in the real estate advertisement for its sale, At the age of only 13, Kate Leigh gave birth to a daughter, Eileen, who is believed to be the woman in the white hat (pictured, above) in a group shot of criminals at Central Police station early last century, 'Kate's only income was what she could scrounge occasionally hiring out hand-carts to vegetable and fruit hawkers for two shillings and sixpence a day.'. Frederick Arthur Leigh. He was an illegal bookmaker and petty criminal.They separated in 1905 when he was imprisoned for assault and robbery. Although labelled G Mammona, the mug shot shows Giuseppe Mammone, who was presumably interviewed and photographed in connection with the stabbing murder of Domenico Belle on Newtown Station, on the morning of 11 February 1930. The problem was that it was funded by taxpayers money, and many men complained. After decades of being banned from public bars unless escorted by men, we women had a place of our own. ', The article said Leigh's 'official' occupation was shop keeper of a mized busienss from the Surry Hills house and that 'she gives money to the Salvation Army and to church charities. Her then de facto husband and bodyguard, Henry George "Jack" Baker, was shot outside this house by the well known Sydney criminal, John 'Chow' Hayes on 19 February 1938. You need to login before you can save preferences. Facebook gives people the power to. [5] Leigh was remembered by the press as much for her patriotism during World War II and for generous charitable acts in support of the unemployed in harsh times as for her criminal history.[5]. Kasey Leigh on Instagram: " It's cover reveal day for BETWEEN NEVER AND Born: Kathleen Mary Josephine Beahan 10 March 1881. biography She anglicised her name to Lee and by 1922 she was married to sly grog dealer Teddy Barry. <>/Metadata 2 0 R/Outlines 5 0 R/Pages 3 0 R/StructTreeRoot 6 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences<>>> Feminism in the 1980s was a complicated matter, as it is now. Straw deals with this in not always satisfactory ways. [16] Leigh was found in possession of cocaine and was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment. <> On 1 May 1922, a month after this photograph was taken, Albert Sing was sentenced to 18 months hard labour on three counts of receiving stolen goods, including fountain pens, cutlery and clothing. <>]/P 618 0 R/Pg 611 0 R/S/Link>> [20] This house was also used by Leigh as her main illegal hotel or Sly-grog shop during this time and was known in Sydney as the Lansdowne Hotel, not to be confused with the legal 'Lansdowne Hotel' in City Road, Broadway. The man third from the left in the same row may be the pickpocket and three-card trickster Frederick Mewson, and the man far left in the front row is likely the pickpocket Norman Smith. The controversy in Canberra, though, was not about Tilly Devines reputation. There are the police records but they are sparse; Leigh was adept at keeping clear of the law. Draped in furs and dripping with diamonds, she willingly used the feminine wiles that we feminists emphatically rejected. More Genealogy Tools. | books Cowman (alias Divvers, alias Denvers) was eventually acquitted. She said she had been to prison 13 times, but 'never for prostitution' and that the police left her alone now because everything was legitimate. Ms Leigh and Ms Devine are characters in the true crime book Razor by Larry Writer, which dramatizes the criminal gang rivalry in Sydney's inner suburbs in the early 20th century when gang members slashed their opponents with cut throat razors. daughter. Suzanne was born a month premature, in less than a year of the couple's marriage. 238 0 obj 5 0 obj [5], Her third and last marriage was at St John's Anglican Church, Fremantle, on 18 January 1950, to old friend and convicted criminal Ernest Alexander "Shiner" Ryan. Sydney's Surrey Hills house where Kate Leigh ran her drug den goes up 437 0 obj When cocaine was outlawed in 1927, Leigh sold both, at at huge profits. The home where Sydneys Queen of the Underworld sold drugs and illegal booze for decades sold on Saturday for $1.7million nearly double its listed price. About Kate Leigh: Australian crime entrepreneur (1881 - 1964 408 0 obj By She said she had been to prison 13 times, but 'never for prostitution' and that the police left her alone now because everything was now legitimate. Erin Eileen Leigh (Author of Navigating the Newborn Months - Goodreads In business parlance, she had diversified, making her money now from drugs and prostitution as well as sly grog. Celebrating Kate: The criminal-celebrity of Sydney underworld figure, Kate Leigh 36 0 obj <>]/P 625 0 R/Pg 621 0 R/S/Link>> <>]/P 523 0 R/Pg 513 0 R/S/Link>> endobj Kathleen Mary Josephine (Kate) Leigh (1881-1964), crime entrepreneur, was born on 10 March 1881 at Dubbo, New South Wales, eighth child of native-born parents Timothy Beahan, bootmaker, and his wife Charlotte, ne Smith. For reasons complex and conflicted, we do love our bad women not least because through them we recognise the bad lurking in ourselves. 2021-10-05T08:39:08-07:00 Numerous charges were heard against the 15 men and women arrested. 370 0 obj endobj ''She is popular with the kids, particularly with her Christmas gifts. 26 Mar 1933 - EILEEN LEIGH STILL HERE - Trove It centred on the stipulation that the cafe was for women. <> The defence, on the other hand, described a quiet party, a few drinks, some singing violently interrupted by a squad of hostile, brawling police (Truth, 29 January 1928). On January 31, 1964, Ms Leigh suffered a stroke at her home and was taken to St Vincents Hospital where she died on February 4, aged 82. HSn0+xYdVD`MP#)M{H>Rd!~Ar$[m54#IZiVdn`,WxUXd'Lxi)ZZ1s('G#^..!e)dN.=Hj #gZ-L/XdA|> ;r, Celebrating Kate: The criminal-celebrity of Sydney underworld figure, Kate Leigh. endobj Before she met Olivier, the star was married to an older man, a barrister named Herbert Leigh Holman, at age nineteen. On January 31, 1964, Kate Leigh suffered a stroke at 212 Devonshire Street and she was taken to St Vincents Hospital where she died on February 4, aged 82. . 188 0 obj Kate Leigh was imprisoned for five years for perjury and had to place her daughter, Eileen, in a convent while she served her time.12 When Kate Leigh was released from prison in 1919, she set about running her own business through the sly-grog trade. Kate Leigh. endobj By our very nature, feminists are transgressive, at least in the patriarchal order of things. endstream Both Leigh and Devine were prominent figures during Sydneys horrific razor wars (described in Larry Writers Razor: Tilly Devine, Kate Leigh and the Razor Gangs and, more or less accurately, in the TV series Underbelly Razor). Our Story - Kate Leigh [27], At the time of her death, aged 82, Kate Leigh was living in virtual poverty in a small room above one of her old illegal hotels at 212 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills and was financially dependent on her nephew, William John Beahan,[28] who ran a mixed business in the shop in the downstairs part of the premises. 391 0 obj endobj 236 0 obj ', The article described Ms Leigh - then aged 63 - as 'stooped, fat and blowsy' but with 'little piercing eyes' which 'indicate her tremendous vitality.'. endobj Samuels, Harold Fletcher and M P (Mick) Ryan were three of twenty men and one woman arrested at an International Anti-Imperialism Day demonstration in Martin Place, Sydney, on 1 August, 1930. <>]/P 527 0 R/Pg 526 0 R/S/Link>> Old Police Mugshots Show How Fashion Was Like In The 1920s and 1930s A lot of people have commented on how Suzanne looks more like her father, but in photos. Nancy was nine-months-old when she was brought in the arms of her parents all the way from Korea. <>]/P 668 0 R/Pg 664 0 R/S/Link>> In 1922, her second husband, John Barry, 04 Oct 1931 - DRAMATIC AFTERMATH OF MANSLAUGHTER TRIAL. - Trove endobj 'Broke and embattled, Kate did her best to earn a little money, selling illegal alcohol from friends' homes and rented rooms,' the book says, but the NSW Government had put her out of business in 1955 by extending hotel trading hours to 10pm. [2] Her childhood and teenaged years included childhood neglect, time in a girls' home at age 12,[2] and an out-of-wedlock pregnancy; her daughter Eileen May Beahan was born in 1900. Fitch also went on to become an active member of the Sydney underworld (see Mug shot of Alfred Fitch in this collection). "It's been a full-time dream for me, part-time dream for them," said owner Richard Leigh, a Nashville Hall of Fame country music songwriter and Grammy Award winner. <>]/P 603 0 R/Pg 602 0 R/S/Link>> The NSW Police also intensively policed incoming vessels for overseas cocaine suppliers in 193839, but it was naval transit restrictions associated with the World War II that led to devastating interruptions of Leigh's overseas cocaine supply.[12]. At the time, she was still studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Click on current line of text for options. Her conviction was overturned on appeal, but the marriage was over. In 1936, newly appointed Sydney Police Commissioner MacKay warned them both to tone down the violence or else risk serious imprisonment. She gives parties.'. 199 0 obj 267 0 obj Or was it about something more? 477 0 obj She was best know for her sly grog shops, which thrived when Sydney's pubs were closed down after 6pm following a riot, The cafe called 'Sly' has leased the bottom floor of the three-floor terrace until July. Another view of thre makeshift kitchen inside 212 Devonshire Street Surry Hills, the Sydney property that was a sly grog shop and drug den in the 1940s, Bitter lifelong rivals Kate Leigh (above, left) and brothel madam Tilly Devine (above right) made up in later years when the two crime queens were nearing the end of their careers, Kate Leigh was living in 212 Devonshire Street, Surry Hils (pictured from the 1950s right up until her death from a stroke in 1964, when she was 82 years old. When masks were compulsory - Sydney Living Museums [3], Leigh married James Ernest (Jack) Lee (or Leigh) (18821959) on 2 May 1902. endobj Mrs Kathleen Mary Josephine "Kate" Beahan Leigh 25 Mar 1932 - KATE LEIGH'S DAUGHTER MAKES AN EFFORT TO - Trove Katie Leigh - IMDb 07:58 BST 02 Nov 2015 AppendPDF Pro 6.3 Linux 64 bit Aug 30 2019 Library 15.0.4 The NSW Police Gazette of 30 January 1924 mentions Eileen May Burt, 18, being sentenced to seven days hard labour for stealing, but released under the first offender provisions of the Crimes Act, and charged to be of good behaviour for 12 months. Kate was born in 1897 in Wedmore, Somerset, England. photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages. Kate Leigh | Elizabeth Peller Cornford was charged with stealing watches, clothing and money from a shop and with stealing two separate motorcycles and sidecars. The mystery of Suzanne Farrington - Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier [6], During the late 1920s Kate lived with Walter "Wally" Tomlinson (or Thomlinson) (c.1899-1968), whom she had employed as one of her bodyguards. <>]/P 497 0 R/Pg 493 0 R/S/Link>> Erin Eileen Leigh is the author of Navigating the Newborn Months and Beyond: A Mother's Guide to Routine, Sleep, Fussiness and Self-Care. <>]/P 552 0 R/Pg 545 0 R/S/Link>> Books | Was Kate Leigh a bad woman, the worst in Sydney? endobj When appearing in court, Kate would wear diamond rings on every finger of both hands. endobj
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