Madam Ghurka

According to her, she was employed as a British secret agent and among her exploits was being shot by a cossack and despite the bullet she went on to kill the son of Aleksey Kuropatkin[1] who was a Russian general and one-time minister of war.

[2] She and Henry were back in Britain where they had met in 1912, four years later they were in South Africa and after they arrived in Australia in 1917, they separated.

Gibson set up a business in Melbourne's Bourke Street at the Eastern Arcade as "Madame Ghurka".

[1] The Eastern Parade had been constructed in 1872 principally as a hotel but its wine cafe in the 1920s was known for its sex workers and criminally inclined patrons.

[1] During the trial, Matthews, was a crown witness living in Gibson's house[5] in Rathdone Street, Carlton.

[6] Ross was wrongly executed, despite his continuing claims of innocence and Gibson took a share of the large reward.

[1] Ross's lawyer, Thomas Brennan, wrote a book about the case, The Gun Alley Tragedy, and Gibson felt that her reputation was at stake and she published her own account, The Murder of Alma Tirtschke: A Challenge to T.C.