Contains the legal cases that packed the court rooms with Sydneysiders eager for sensation: The Mount Rennie Case – The gang rape of a 16 year old girl by the larrikin gang members of the Waterloo Push.  The Case of Ernest Buttner: Ernest Buttner, a quiet German boarding house keeper was almost hanged for rape. The Dean Case – Did a respectable young man, a ferry boat Captain, try to poison his young wife? The Coningham Conspiracy – A dashing Australian Test cricketing hero, his beautiful aristocratic English wife, adultery, blackmail and the unlikely main participant who was an Irish Catholic priest who was in line to become the next Cardinal of Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral. The Land Scandals – In which W. N. Willis, Charles Bath and W.P. Crick himself are charged with conspiracy to defraud.  The Careers of W. P. Crick and R. D. Meagher.