Peter Crown and Patrick Hogan, 1896
Peter Crown and Patrick Hogan, 1896

42-year-old Peter Crown and 23-year-old Patrick Hogan, from Her Majesty’s Prison, Photographic Record and Description of Prisoners, February 1894 to August 1896, QSA, PRI 1/10. Institutional male homosexuality would have been quite common. In the 1890s, two St Helena inmates, Peter Crown and Patrick Hogan, were caught having sex together in the prison lime-house. According to the warder ‘Crown appeared to be working up and down on Hogan’. Both men were found guilty of attempted sodomy.

Collection Queensland State Archives

Location Node: 
St Helena Island, QLD
Australia
Date captured: 
3 November 2010
Date created: 
3 November 2010