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Sir Samuel Cemetery –

09/03/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sir Samuel / Mt Sir Samuel Cemetery “With lonely old graves where departed souls sleep, Where a merciful god a vigil must keep Till the trumpet is heard on that final last day Let us never disturb them, just leave them that way’   Sir Samuel Townsite Cemetery Sign Yakabindi Station East of Bellevue Mine […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, Hotels, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Mt Sir Samuel, Sir Samuel, Western Australia

Little Boy Lost –

02/03/2024 By Moya Sharp 11 Comments

Western Mail 10 September 1915, page 8 Lost in the Bush. A FOUR YEAR OLD WANDERER. How a small boy, aged 4 years, contrived to upset a whole town and cause practically a cassation of business for a couple of days is graphically related by a Leanora correspondent. The story also affords another instance of […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Leonora, Western Australia

Helena Maud Pike – grave tales

02/03/2024 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

On the 27th April 1906, Helena ‘Lily’ Maud Pike (nee Rosevere) aged 30yrs, passed away at the St John of God Hospital in Dugan Street, Kalgoorlie from Typhoid Fever. She was the wife of councillor Eustace Walter Pike and the mother of one child, James Albert, aged 6yrs. The following photograph is a very poignant […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, kalgoorlie cemetery, Western Australia

The Mt Magnet Murder –

02/03/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Mail 1 November 1951, page 18 WESTRALIANA Murchisonite recalls a grim story The Mt Magnet Murder A murder that was committed at Mt Magnet in 1898 was never solved, despite the very closest inquiries by detectives, and police generally on the Murchison at the time. The tragedy was known as ‘The Magnet Murder’ and […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Mt Magnet, Western Australia

Death of a Girl from the Bush –

02/03/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Mirror 8 October 1938, page 1 Facing a Murder Charge Soon after the death of a girl of 19 in the Kalgoorlie Hospital, on Wednesday. Det Sgt Findlay, Det Cannon and P.C. Gamble arrested  Lillian Pearson, a married woman and boarding housekeeper, 41 years, of Kalgoorlie, who was charged with having murdered Margaret Ellen […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, murder, Western Australia

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