This is Jessie Rachel Ann Lightfoot Slatter Nee Thornton- Sister of my Great grandfather George Thornton.
This is an article from the QLD Police Gazette dated 10th January 1931
What I always found fascinating was how in depth the description is.. I had the pleasure of talking to the son of Thomas Maher Snr.
Old Tom Maher junior was happy to tell me all about this robbery and recounted that night and the retrieval of goods. His father promised Jessie it would never go to the police but I guess it did!! Thom Jnr was with his father when they found Jessie and Devereaux. They let them go as they returned what they had taken.
This pair - Jessie Slatter(nee Thornton) and Leslie Devereaux - are my brick wall. There will be more to come on this brick wall. I would love to know what people think of this police report. Have you ever seen a thief so well described in a report before?
This is an article from the QLD Police Gazette dated 10th January 1931
What I always found fascinating was how in depth the description is.. I had the pleasure of talking to the son of Thomas Maher Snr.
Old Tom Maher junior was happy to tell me all about this robbery and recounted that night and the retrieval of goods. His father promised Jessie it would never go to the police but I guess it did!! Thom Jnr was with his father when they found Jessie and Devereaux. They let them go as they returned what they had taken.
This pair - Jessie Slatter(nee Thornton) and Leslie Devereaux - are my brick wall. There will be more to come on this brick wall. I would love to know what people think of this police report. Have you ever seen a thief so well described in a report before?
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