CRIME IN AUSTRALIA
THOUSANDS UNDETECTED.
BEHIND THE CIKicS IN GAOL.
Press Association —Copyright. ■ (Received 11.30 a.in.) Melbourne, October 28,
In the last four years, approximately 31,023 crimes were reported to tbo Criminal Investigation Department, Melbourne, of which 41,720 were undetected.
Tl>e most* serious was 1 tbo murder of Irene Tuckerman at Caulfield. Allegations of tbo corruption of tbo system of delivery charges by gaol officials for prisoners, and of secret letters from a high school of criminal technology to friends outside, are contained in a. letter from ai prisoner in the new Melbourne Gaol at Coburg, ex-Lieutenant Colonel Thorn, who was recently found guilty of misappropriation of funds of the special constabulary of which he was commander. To the Crown Prosecutor, Thorn says; “1: have.been instructed in all the- modern methods of burglary, safe blowing, coining, forgery, and note-faking. I know two methods of opening the regulation hand-cuffs silently with a stout bootlace in -two minutes.”
Detectives have been deputed to in? vestigate an extensive scheme of smuggling into Pentridge.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 4, 28 October 1924, Page 6
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