#hotel barber

Mugshots of Gilbert Burleigh and Joseph Delaney Aug. 7,1920 
“Gilbert Burleigh on the left is identified as a ‘hotel barber’, and Delaney’s picture is labelled ‘false pretences & conspiracy’. A companion photograph makes it clear that in fact Delaney was the hotel barber – meaning one who books into a hotel, boarding house or residential and robs (or ‘snips’) fellow patrons, usually in the dead of night”
©The Sydney Justice & Police Museum