Captured: Portraits of Crime 1870-1930 - Flipbook - Page 81
On 17 October 1905 the Executive Council commuted Higgins’ capital sentence
to imprisonment with hard labour for life. While in Darlinghurst Gaol, Higgins
underwent several mental assessments before being transferred to Bathurst Gaol
in February 1907. She was eventually granted special remission on 10 May 1907 and
released into the custody of her brother, Thomas.
Margaret Higgins does not appear again in the NSW Gaol Photographic
Description Books, 1870-1930. Higgins remained living with her brother, a grazier
with a kind and gentle disposition, until his death from the post War ‘Spanish’
influenza in 1919. She died in Coolah in 1950.
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