Mary Jane Hicks Wright (18581898) Find a Graveäreminne

It was on September 9, 1886, that Sydney was horrified by the news of a locking outrage perpetrated by a band of youths upon a girl named Mary Jane Hicks, at Mount Rennie. According to.. After Mary Jane Hicks herself, Smith and Stanley were the two most important witnesses for the Crown. In the words of one defence barrister, Mr Moriarty, Smith was an "intelligent, good witness".

Mary Jane Hicks became a 'lying little street tramp' who had 'voluntarily entered into immoral relations' with a number of 'dirty little larrikins'. The Bulletin now maintained that if there had ever been an outrage, Mary Jane Hicks had brought it on herself.57 This view was shared by several parliamentarians. Mr Playfair announced. Sixteen year old domestic servant who had recently arrived in Sydney from regional New South Wales, and was the victim of a gang rape at Mount Rennie (now Moore Park) in September 1886. The trial of eleven of her assailants polarised the colony, especially when four of the men were hanged for the crime in January 1887. The nuns of the Convent of the Good Samaritans took her in after the.