Verheyden, Paul Francis 191
Vicar, Robert 147
victim impact statements 161
Victoria Mint robbery 47
Victoria Police Special Operations Group (SOG) 141
Victorian Club 100, 108–9
Vincent, Jamie 202–3
Vincent, ‘Teflon’ Tony 202, 203
Virgo, William 78
Visentin, Hayden 191
Visentin, Maxine 190–1
Visentin, Paul 190–1
Wade, Peter 167
wage heists 7, 36, 145, 156
Walker, Constable 5
Wallace, Selwyn 146
Walsh, Frank 83
Walsh, Matthew 72–3
Walsh, Sandra 114
Walsh Street shootings 189
Walters, Pearl 73
Ward, Alexander 49, 50–1
Ward, Fred (Captain Thunderbolt) 14
Ward, James 19
Warren, Jack ‘The Fibber’ 106
Watts, Edward 41
Way, Sir Samuel 53
weaponry 198
Webb, Frank 22
Webster & Cohen, Melbourne 47
Weiberg, Martin 27–9
Weinberg, Justice 142
Weir, Alan John 132
Wells, Joseph 7
Welsh, Eric 164
Western Australia, transport of gold 7
Western, Philip 184
Westpac, Northbridge 173–4
Wheale, Henry 85
whippings 12, 21, 49, 51, 62, 72
white collar crime 202–3
Whitehead, John/James 10
Whitfield, Edgar 72
Whitfield, Raymond 68, 69
‘Wild Colonial Boy’ (Jack Donohoe) 2
Wildblood, Edward vii, 192
Wilkinson, JJ 32
Wilkinson, Roy Edward 86, 87
Williams, Carl 107
Williams (aka Carroll), ‘Curly’ 16–17
Williams (alias Hobbs), Harold 61, 62
Williams, John 6
Williams, Joyleen 166–7
Williams, Ronald Joseph 173
Williams, Ronald Stanley 147–8
Williamson, John 52–3
Willis, Cherie 139
Wilson, Jack Edward 119–20
Wiltshire, Bob 78
Windeyer, Sir William 24–5
Winneke, Judge 63
Winslade, Lindsay 196
Witness Protection Security Programme (Witsec) 124–5
Wolston Park Hospital wages heist 156, 159
Wood, Judge 124
Wood, Thomas 42
Woodland, Henry 99
Woods, Richard 84
Woods, Samuel 4–5
Woodward, Thomas viii
Woolcock, Lance James 127
Woolford, Snowy 23–4
Woon, Leslie 99–104, 109
Wren, John 50
Wright, Capt Walter ix
Wright, Ray 155–7, 158
Young, Nicole Linda 164
Young (aka Woods), Samuel 4–5
Zammitt, Louis 73
The Robbery at the National Bank in Simpson’s Road, an illustration by FA Sleap, 10 June 1885, shows the manager, Mr JB Humphreys and the accountant, Mr A Bradshaw being assaulted by three armed robbers wearing face masks. State Library of Victoria
Painting of bushranger Frank Gardiner’s gang by Patrick Marony, c. 1894. Clockwise from bottom left: Gilbert, Ben Hall, Bourke (Burke), Frank Gardiner (King of the Road) and Dunne (Dunn). National Library of Australia
Bushranger Jack Bradshaw, who held up a bank at Quirindi, NSW in the 1930s. News Ltd/Newspix
Squizzy Taylor—Australia’s ‘favourite larrikin’ or a murderer, bludger and blackmailer? Victoria Police
Squizzy Taylor’s ‘all weather’ companion, the stylish Ida Pender. Victoria Police
Squizzy Taylor was buried with his infant daughter. Frankie Bateson
Mrs Phyllis May Surridge was sentenced to death for the murder of Ernest Hofman in Kings Cross, Sydney, in 1942. News Ltd/Newspix
Sydney underworld identity Kathleen Ryan, better known as Kate Leigh, The Dowager Queen of Surry Hills, married criminal convict and artist Ernest A Ryan (Shiner Ryan) on 18 January 1950. Their nuptials did not make the social columns, but to the residents of the Surry Hills slums it was the event of the year. News Ltd/Newspix
Jean Lee is taken up the stairs of the watch house by Detectives Currer and Kellett on 25 March 1950. She was the last woman to be hanged in Australia. News Ltd/Newspix
Police show the guns used in the Great Bookie Robbery at the Victoria Club, 1976. Fairfax
Criminal Julie Wright née Cashman with her daughter after her release from Mulawa Jail, 22 September 1990. Frank Violi/Newspix
Leslie ‘Les’ Kane, a member of the Victorian Ship Painters and Dockers Union, who was gunned down in his bathroom in 1978. This mug shot was taken in 1975.
Brian Raymond Kane was killed in the Quarry Hotel, Brunswick, in 1982, four years after his brother, Leslie Kane, was murdered.
Christopher Binse leaves the Supreme Court in Melbourne, 5 December 2013. Binse was arrested in May after a 44-hour standoff with police in Keilor East. AAP Image/Julian Smith