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- ↑ "Gaol-Breaker Makes Film". Sunday Times (Perth) . No. 2569. Western Australia. 18 May 1947. p. 12 (SUPPLEMENT TO THE SUNDAY TIMES). Retrieved 4 March 2018– via National Library of Australia.
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- ↑ "Robber's Two Months In West End". The Mail (Adelaide) . Vol. 28, no. 1, 447. South Australia. 17 February 1940. p. 3. Retrieved 4 March 2018– via National Library of Australia.
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