Epilogue
Lesley Bocquet was charged with illegal bookmaking and the murder of Crispin White. The charges against Milton Isaacs were dropped.
As Milton Isaacs predicted, the conservative newspapers were scathing of Rowland Sinclair’s exhibition. The Sydney Morning Herald, Truth, Telegraph and Canberra Times all lamented the gullibility of the artistic community which seemed to be so easily swayed by the p********a of Bolshevik interests. The dignitaries who had attended were at pains to distance themselves from the renegade artist and his fanciful paintings. Arts editors dismissed the exhibition as sensationalist nonsense. Smith’s Weekly was a notable exception. It concentrated its criticism on Eric Campbell and the violent thugs who seemed at his beck and call, and commended Rowland Sinc
