Gun Place

Sometimes known as Gun Alley.

Status: Date TBC, 1921.

Located at or near: TBC.

Probable or possible origin of name: TBC.

Location is approximate.

For more information, see: Bate, W., Broome, R., Davis, N., May, A. J., & Stitt, H. (2024). The story of Melbourne’s lanes: Essential but unplanned (pp. 112, 38-39, 112). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"No name came or went as mysteriously as Gun Alley, near the Eastern Market. It was not always listed in directories before or after being named in the press as the scene of the discovery of 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke's body, dumped there after she was raped and strangled in 1921. Colin Campbell Ross, the licensee of the Australian Wine Café in the nearby Eastern Arcade, to which the prosecution argued she had been lured, was convicted of the crime despite having an alibi. He was hanged in 1922. The main evidence against him was hair matching Alma's". p. 112.