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Gloucester Advocate in Gloucester, New South Wales

20 Jan 1925

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Gloucester Advocate

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Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia

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Jan 20, 1925

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Notorious Victorian criminal Owen Suffolk and his downfall

A legacy of crime in Victoria features Owen Suffolk, famed for forging notes and manipulating prison warrants. He rose from convicts to a celebrated swindler, fled to Ballarat, later returned to England with tales of Days of Crime and Years of Suffering, and mingled with high society while claiming banking and squatting ties in Australia.

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Victoria Australia Owen Suffolk London Considerali Abel Methegrinne Pentridge Suffolk SnMfulie Melbourne Futiera Ming Hobson's Bay Ballarat Ballara Sincex Polier Pentridee England Bristol Artemus Ward
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Australian fraud and escape tale from Victorian court

A story recounts Suffolk who conspired with accomplices to marry a wealthy Melbourne widow, plot to sell shares, flee to London and then to America with the widow’s money and furniture proceeds, while a staged river accident misled reporters. authorities traced the letter to a Melbourne solicitor and involved Scotland Yard before Suffolk vanished. The piece blends sensational con man history with excerpts on Doan's Kidney Pills promotion continuing long after.

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Suffolk Colleitor Melbourne Indy Hank Tharine Nicholson Inspector Field Scotland Yard London Thames America England Thiut Goyy Australia Wingham
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