BOGGO – S2 E2 – Halliday-The Early Years
BOGGO – S2 E2. Halliday – The Early Years
Arthur Ernest Halliday is one of the most notorious characters ever locked up in Boggo Road Gaol. Eighty years ago this month, Halliday began a five year term with Hard Labour, his longest sentence to date by far.
Arthur Ernest Halliday is one of the most notorious characters ever locked up in Boggo Road Gaol.
Eighty years ago this month, Halliday began a five year term with Hard Labour, his longest sentence to date by far.
Halliday had had a long career of housebreaking prior to 1939 with sentences in both New South Wales and Queensland, including a short sentence in Boggo Road Gaol.
But this time Justice Henchmen threw the book at Halliday convicting him of nine counts of housebreaking in the suburbs of Hamilton, Bowen Hills, Clayfield and Newstead. The sentence five years with hard labour was Halliday’s first serious stretch in Gaol.
This sentence was to have a profound effect on the life of Halliday. This is where his life of crime would truly begin. It was in Boggo Road Gaol where he would meet other notorious prisoners that would lead him on a path of jail break, escape and murder.
Listen to S2 Episode 2 of ‘Boggo’ – the official podcast for Boggo Road Gaol.
In this episode of BOGGO Gaol Director Jack Sim and research Co-ordinator Sue Olsen discuss the early years of Arthur Ernest Halliday otherwise known as Slim Halliday. 2019 marks 80 years since Slim came to Boggo Road Gaol for his first serious stretch of time.
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