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Catherine Mary Josephine "Kate" Leigh (née Beahan; 10 March 1881 – 4 February 1964) was an Australian underworld figure who rose to prominence as an illegal trader of alcohol and cocaine dealer in Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia during the first half of the twentieth century. Kate Leigh was a leading figure in the notorious Sydney razor gang wars. ==Personal life== Kate Leigh was born on 10 March 1881 in Dubbo, New South Wales, the eighth child of Roman Catholic parents Timothy Beahan, a boot-maker, and his wife Charlotte (née Smith).〔Australian Dictionary of Biography Online〕 Her childhood and teenaged years included childhood neglect, time in a girls' home at age 12,〔Australian Dictionary of Biography Online〕 and an out-of-wedlock pregnancy; her daughter Eileen May Beahan was born in 1900.〔N.S.W. BDM. Birth Reference # 684/1900 for ''Eileen May Beahan'' (Mother: Kathleen M.J. – Father: unknown.)〕 Leigh married James Ernest 'Jack' Lee ''or'' Leigh (1882-1959) on 2 May 1902. 'Jack' Lee was born in Tumut, New South Wales to a Chinese father and an Australian born mother, and became an illegal bookmaker and petty criminal.〔G.Blaike. Wild women of Sydney〕 They separated in 1905 when James Lee was imprisoned for assault and robbery. Following his trial, Kate Leigh was convicted of perjury and for being an accomplice to the assault, after being accused of lying under oath to protect her husband; her conviction was overturned on appeal. The marriage broke up soon after the trial, though they were not divorced until 1921. Kate anglicised her part-Asian surname from Lee to Leigh, and she was mostly known by that name for the rest of her life, regardless of future marriages. Kate's daughter Eileen also used the name 'Leigh' until she married in 1920.〔G. Blaike, Wild women of Sydney〕 Kate married for the second time on 26 September 1922, to a Western Australian-born musician Edward Joseph 'Teddy' Barry (1892-1948), a sly-grog dealer and small time criminal.〔Larry Writer "Razor"〕 The marriage only lasted for a few years, after which she reverted to using her previous surname of 'Leigh'. Though long separated, Teddy Barry died in Kate's home at 2 Lansdowne Street, Surry Hills on 26 June 1948, and was buried at Botany Cemetery three days later.〔''Sydney Morning Herald'' notice of death of Teddy Barry dated 28 June 1948; funeral notice, 29 June 1948〕 During the late 1920s Kate lived with Walter "Wally" Tomlinson (or Thomlinson), whom she had employed as one of her bodyguards.〔Writer, Larry "Razor"〕 Walter Francis Tomlinson (c.1899-1968) was charged in 1916, at age 16, with ''Shooting At, With Intent To Murder'',〔Sydney Morning Herald. ''A Shooting Case.'' Quarter Sessions before Judge Murray. ''Walter Thomlinson.'' 18 February 1916. (page 16).〕 and had a reputation as a tough standover criminal by the late 1920s. That relationship—which featured prominently in an Australian television drama on Leigh's role in the razor gang wars (see ''Popular culture'', below)—ended with Tomlinson's departure, and Leigh then pursued a de facto relationship from 1932-1949 with her business partner, Henry John 'Jack' Baker.〔Larry Writer "Razor"〕 Her third and last marriage was at St John's Anglican Church, Fremantle, on 18 January 1950, to old friend and convicted criminal Ernest Alexander "Shiner" Ryan.〔The Daily News (Perth) 19 January 1950. Shiner Ryan Weds" (page 4)〕 They were separated six months later, and Ryan died in Western Australia in 1954.〔Larry Writer. 'Razor'. Pan Macmillan Publishers, 2001 (ISBN 0 7329 1074 9).〕 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「Kate Leigh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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