SCHOOL OF CRIME.
STARTLING ALLEGATIONS. MELBOURNE UNDERWORLD. (BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIQHT} (AUSTRALIAN AND W.?. CABLH ASSOCIATION.) MELBOURNE, October 28, In the last four years approximately 51,623 crimes were reported to the Criminal Investigation Department in Melbourne, of which 41,720 have boen undetected. The most serious was the murder of Irene Tuckerman at Caul' field. Allegations of corruption, of a system of delivery charges by gaol officials for prisoners, and of secret letterg from a high school of criminal technology to friends outside are contained in a letter from a prisoner in the new Melbourne gaol, ex-Lieutenant-Colonel Thorn, who was recently found guilty of the misappropriation of funds of the Special Constabulary, of which he was commander, to the Crown Prosecutor.
Thom says: —"I have been instructed in all modern, methods of burglary, safe-blowing, coining, forgery, and note-faking. I know two methods of opening the regulation handcuffs silently, with a stout bootlace in two minutes. ''
Detectives have been deputed to investigate extensive schemes of smug gling into Pentridgo Gaol.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18216, 29 October 1924, Page 9
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167SCHOOL OF CRIME. Press, Volume LX, Issue 18216, 29 October 1924, Page 9
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