Police in Australia today released a series of photographs taken during 1910 -1930 with the most feared criminals of the time. Among them and Eugenia Fallen, known in history as the Harry Crawford.

Eugenia’s story has attracted public attention because of the double life that took her. Although the woman, she lived under the guise of a man, Harry Crawford .
Eugenia was arrested in 1917 for killing his wife because the latter had discovered that a married woman.
Born in 1875 in Florence, Italy, Fallen Eugenia and her family emigrated in 1878 in Wellington, New Zealand.
Since small, Eugenia used to wear boys’. Once a teenager, she decided to go to sea. During one of his travels at sea, the crew members realized they were dealing with a colleague, not a colleague. Shortly after the discovery, Eugenia became pregnant.
In 1898, Fallen landed at Newcastle, and only one child. Maternity Archive Sydeny indicate Fallen Lena, born in Livorno, Italy, which gave birth to a daughter in 1898.
The child was left in a maternity center in Sydney and saw the fallen and living under a new name, Harry Leo Crawford .
Crawford continued to work in Sydney without giving his employers suspected something, which he considered a quiet man, very quiet and subdued.
In 1912 Crawford was hired as a driver and had his widow Annie Birirkett, who had a child of nine years. Harry and Annie opened with a tailor in Balmain, and on February 13, 1913 the two were married.
In 1917, while the woman’s son was at home, they went on a picnic in Chatswood. A few days before Annie had told a relative that he had found something very interesting about Harry, but was never told about what it was. Annie has not returned home from a picnic.
Crawford told intimates that Annie ran the installer. There was no investigation was initiated.
In 1920 in Chatswood, but police found a partially charred body of a woman who is identified as Annie Crawford.
On July 5, 1920 Harry Crawford is arrested by police for killing his ex-wife. In his kindly, he was imprisoned in a cell with other women. Also now he has kept secret for 20 years was unveiled.
At the preliminary appearance in July 1920, defendant appeared in men’s clothes.
In October of that year, the realized murder trial, the accused appeared dressed as a woman. He was accused of sexual fraud and that he killed to hide his identity. The defense argued that the Fallen is innocent, counting on a congenital anomaly.
Fallen was sentenced to death, then death penalty but was canceled. It was released in February 1931 after which he took the name Jean Ford.
On June 9, 1938 Fallen was hit by a car and died of injuries sustained two days ago. He was buried in Rookwood cemetery.
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