The Black Range Brewery, or the Breakaway Brewery as it was also known, began trading in August of 1907 with the proprietor as Joseph Vincent Kearney, an Irishman born in 1873 at Ballymoon, Co Carlow, Ireland. The manager was Michael ‘Mick’ Dempsey. It was located on the Maninga Marley Road, 4.8 kilometres from Sandstone. What […]
The Waitress, the Barman, and the Wife
New Call and Bailey’s Weekly 25 July 1935 WHAT WIFE SAW THROUGH A CUE WINDOW Lively Ructions In Girl’s Room Chief Justice Grants Decree Nisi That a wife through a Cue window saw her husband in bed with another woman was alleged when before the Chief Justice (Sir John Northmore) this week Edith Bowes sought […]
Lost for Love – The Tragedy of Beth Maynard
The following story is one of the most unusual I have read for some time. It really does fit into the category of ‘Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales’. The story starts in South Australia and ends in NSW but has a WA Goldfields link. It is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author, […]
Death at Dawn – The Tragic End of Mianoor Mahomet
Kalgoorlie Western Argus 10 May 1904, page 29 MENZIES MURDERER EXECUTED Mianoor Mahomet, the Menzies murderer, was hanged at Fremantle this morning, a couple of minutes after the appointed hour, 8 o’clock. The doomed man had only to step across a few paces of the open yard to the house of execution. He had asked […]
A Voice for Women and Children: The Story of Bessie Jordan
Elizabeth Jane Ann ‘Bessie’ Jones was born on 17 August 1877 in Sandhurst, Victoria. She was the daughter of James Jones (1849-1892) and Harriet Jones nee Harry (1851-1925). She had only one sibling, James Henry Jones, born 15 Aug 1882. At the age of 20 years, she married Richard Michael Jordan on the 27th of […]