Family History Mysteries

Ethel Benn was an extraordinarily athletic thief who never learned from her mistakes.

Ethel Benn was an extraordinarily athletic thief who never learned from her mistakes.

Esther Eggers was born Esther Ann Reardon in Sydney in 1896. She first features in public documents as a 15 year old and was still committing misdemeanors in her late forties.

John Wagner was born in Canada in 1827. He emigrated in 1852 via California to Melbourne. During his travels, he recognized the difficulty of transport over long distances and in Australia developed a line of quality coaches and travel routes.
He became a partner with Cyrus Hewitt of Hewitt & Co. and later joined A.W. Robertson to form Robertson & Wagner to purchase coach lines in Victoria, Australia.
John was also a partner in Cobb & Co., another coach line service, and held an interest in the Mt. Morgan Gold Mining Company which made him very wealthy.

Charles Thomas Scoringi Jnr was born in 1891 in New Zealand. He was in trouble with the law as a young boy, and committed crimes both in NZ and Australia. Interestingly, in all but one case, targeted Chinese to steal from.