Darlinghurst Gaol
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The Darlinghurst Gaol is a former Australian prison located in Darlinghurst, New South Wales. The site is bordered by Darlinghurst Road, Burton and Forbes streets, with entrances on Forbes and Burton
An aerial view of Darlinghurst Gaol, with the courthouse in the foreground, 1930
The entrance to the jail
Grounds of the former jail in 2011
Watercolour of the Gaol by inmate Henry Louis Bertrand, 1891
Louisa Collins
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Louisa Collins was an Australian convicted murderer. She lived in the Sydney suburb of Botany and married twice, with both husbands dying of arsenic poisoning under suspicious circumstances. Collins w
Darlinghurst Gaol
…Thomas and John Clarke – bushrangers from the upper Shoalhaven in south-east New South Wales, hanged on 25 June 1867. Louisa Collins – the last woman to hang in New South Wales. Sir George Dibbs – Colonial politician jailed for a year in 1880 for slander relating to a widely reported…
Prisoner identification photograph of Louisa Collins, taken in July 1888
Wedding photograph of Michael and Louisa Collins, April 1887.
'The Yawning Guv'nah and the Yawning Grave', a cartoon critical of the Governor of New South Wales, Charles Carington, referencing the hangings of Louisa Collins and the 'Mount Rennie' rapists; published in The Bulletin, 12 January 1889.