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Larrikins and Laneways: The baddest man in Chinatown

In the early 1900s, Chinatown’s Heffernan Lane was one of the worst streets in Melbourne thanks to brothels, opium dens, gambling rooms and a tendency to attract murderous thieves. And its most notorious resident was Chinese-born gangster Harry Quong, whose upstanding parents migrated to Melbourne to give their son “a good English education”. Instead, he repaid his parents’ sacrifice by becoming a bank robber, thief and all-round scoundrel – then scored himself 15 years in jail for shooting a policeman. Read more at heraldsun.com.au/ibaw  

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