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Dulcie May Markham (1913 – 20 April 1976) was a prominent Sydney prostitute and associate of gangland figures in Sydney during the 1930s, 1940's and 1950s, when she was closely involved with the razor gang milieu of that era of organised crime within that city. During her criminal career, she had amassed 100 convictions in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland & Western Australia for prostitution, vagrancy, consorting, assaulting police and the public, keeping a brothel, drunkenness and drunk driving, and was sent to prison on numerous occasions.〔L.Writer, ''Razor'' . Chapter 22: ''Pretty Dulcie.'' Pan Macmillan, Australia〕 Dulcie was known in the media as ''The Angel of Death'', ''The Black Widow'' and ''Pretty Dulcie.'' ''The Daily Mirror'', a former Sydney newspaper, summed up her career in crime thus: "Dulcie Markham saw more violence and death than any other woman in Australia's history".〔Bill Jenkings, "Dulcie Markham Obituary", ''The Daily Mirror'' (21 April 1976).〕 ==Life and notable criminal liaisons== Dorothy May "Dulcie" Markham was born in the inner city Sydney suburb of Newtown in 1913, and she became one of Australia's most notorious prostitutes and underworld figures. She became a prostitute when she was 15 and Sydney's most extravagant gangster's moll by the time she was 18. She was attracted to, and associated with, many major criminals of the era. On 13 May 1931, stallkeeper Alfred Dillon and gunman Cecil "Scotty" McCormack came to blows over the attentions of Markham and in the resultant melee, Dillon stabbed McCormack to death.〔Morton and Lobez, 2007:96.〕 By 1936, Markham was involved with Guido Caletti, another notorious Sydney gunman, the then husband of Nellie Cameron, another prominent Sydney sex worker of that period. Caletti was shot dead in August 1939 at a party he attended with Markham.〔"MURDER CHARGE- Shooting of Caletti", ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (11 August 1939):11.〕 Reportedly, Markham was grief-stricken at his funeral.〔Morton and Lobez, 2007: 156〕 By December 1937, Markham had shifted to Melbourne and now had gunman Arthur Taplin as her pimp and lover. Taplin was subsequently shot dead later that year. She was also married to a criminal named Frank Bowen in the late 1930s. Frank Bowen was murdered in Kings Cross in the early 1940s. In 1944, Markham had relocated to Queensland's Gold Coast. When picked up for vagrancy by local police, she protested that she lived with her current ''de facto'' husband, Arthur Williams, and that while he gave her money and groceries, she was not involved in the local sex industry at that time, and was not aware of Williams' involvement in the sly-grog or bootleg alcohol distribution networks that flouted wartime beer and spirits rationing mandates. She also used the pseudonyms and aliases: "Dulcie Williams", "Dulcie Bowen", "Tosca de Marquis", "Mary Eugene", and "Tosca de Merene" during that period.〔Vince Kelly. ''Rugged Angel'' (Angus & Robertson, 1961).〕〔Morton and Lobez, 2007:106.〕 In September 1945, her then boyfried and leading Melbourne criminal Leslie Walkerden, was shot dead in Richmond, Victoria.〔"Killed in Shooting at Richmond; Victim well known to Police", ''The Argus'' (13 September 1945):5.〕 In 1947, Markham was accused and stood trial for conspiracy to murder Valma Hull,〔"Woman Charged On Murder Plot", ''The Courier Mail'' (12 August 1947):3.〕 the wife of Keith Kitchener Hull, who had shot and killed another Sydney gangland figure, Donald "The Duck" Day, in January 1945.〔"Day - Murder Charge", ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (31 January 1945):5.〕 Markham and Edwin Martin, her current liaison, had visited a boarding house owned by Mrs Hull and had demanded to see her. Charges were later dropped when another pair of local gunmen, Charles Martin and George Barrett, were charged with an attack on Hull, but also acquitted a month later.〔Morton and Lobez, 2007: 128〕 On 25 September 1951, Markham was shot in the hip at a wild party that turned violent in St Kilda, Victoria. Her then boyfriend, Gavin Walsh was shot and killed at the same party. Three months later, while still recovering from the shooting, she married Leonard "Redda" Lewis, who was later shot in Melbourne on 22 April 1952. They didn't live together again and were later divorced. Markham faced Central Police Court for soliciting one final time in 1957 before retiring from prostitution. In January 1959, Markham stood before a special Federal Court on a charge of not having filed a tax return for 1957. She was found guilty and fined ₤50 with £1 costs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dulcie Markham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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