Dr Thomas George Davy is one of the minor characters in the book I recently finished. As the Police Medical Officer in Perth, he visited Alice Mitchell’s home with a police constable in February 1907, shortly before Alice was arrested for
Mr Pennefather’s grudge
In the early 1900s, Perth had no shortage of larger-than-life characters. They included not only eccentrics like Mrs Tracey and imposters such as Harcourt Whipple Ellis, but politicians, doctors and members of the legal profession. The judiciary in Western Australia
