Talk:Michael Edward Ward

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Who was Ferozi Fathay Mahommed and why was his case high profile?
The article says that the case of Ferozi Fathay Mahommed was high profile. Who was Ferozi Fathay Mahommed? The report cited is from page 6 of the 15 Sep. 1904 issue of The Argus, a newspaper of Melbourne, Vic. under the headline "An "Irish" Hindu" says Mahommed was a "deserter" from the P&O boat Egypt where he was employed a fireman before the ship docked in Sydney on 15 July 1904. Mahommed had previously lived in Cunninghame, Gippsland for 11 years, before returning to India three years earlier. When Mahommed returned to Cunninghame in 1904, he was recognised as a deserter, arrested by Police and brought to Melbourne, where Ward questioned him at the "Detective office". Mahommed could not understand why the Immigration Restriction Act prevented him from returning to where he had previously lived in Australia. The news article doesn't say so but this sounds more like a court reporter reporting a humorous anecdote from court that day, rather than a high profile case. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 05:45, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

couple of statements removed from article
I have removed the following statements from the article: suggest that further references need to be found until they are reinstated. Coolabahapple (talk) 03:26, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * from the lead - "Ward is renowned for his waxed moustache which he liked to twirl often gave the lie to his many disguises and his affairs with servant girls" with a reference of a 1948 book Australian Son: A Life of Ned Kelly by Max Brown, as it places undue emphasis on something that appears to be heresay ie. "gossip", and i have been unable to verify through newspaper/magazine reports as listed in Trove;
 * and from the "Career" section - "Ward controversially accepted a reward for his part in the capture." with the following reference - http://www.ironoutlaw.com/html/villains.html "Real Villains " webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150301222412/http://www.ironoutlaw.com/html/villains.html |date=1 March 2015 Iron Outlaws, again, newspaper reports of the day via Trove lists Ward as receiving 50pd as part of a 1000pd reward issued by a bank, along with other police members (ie. here, here, and again, i have been unable to find any reports of him receiving 100pd of the total 8000pd reward as "controversial", also this website does not appear to be WP:RS (ned kelly fansite anyone?).