Carlton

The Murder of Ginger Tommy

On August 21st, 1918 in a tenement in a low class area of Carlton, the body of Roma Smith was found brutally murdered with her throat cut so severly it broke one of her vertebrae. To this day, the perpertrator of this murder has not been found. Who was it that left this young woman…

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The Murder of Ginger Tommy

On the afternoon of August 21st, 1918, Norman Violet entered the front door of 28 Cumberland Place where his on again off again paramour Roma Smith lived.  She was still laying in bed when he told her to get up.  When there was no response, he pulled back the quilt to discover Roma had been…

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