Billy ‘The Texan’ Longley was a member of the Federated Painters and Dockers Union and a leading underworld gang figure in the waterfront area during the 1960s and 1970s. Although his more infamous crime, the murder of union secretary Pat Shannon in 1973 occurred in a South Melbourne hotel and resulted in his incarceration two years later, his previous criminal activities have been documented as including the killing of three dockworkers at the Rose and Crown Hotel (now known simply as The Rose) in the mid-60s.
by pastportproject on Sept. 7, 2015Sian Louise Mitchell
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