Alessandro ‘Alec’ EPIS ‘Kookaburra’ by Tony De Bolfo – Aug 2006 Alec Epis never married or fathered any children, but he’s never been lonely. That he says is the legacy of his Italian upbringing in one of Australia’s most inhospitable environments. “They were hard days but they were happy days”, Alex said of his boyhood […]
Cuddingwarra’s Golden Days: A Murchison Boom and Bust
10/05/2025 By Leave a Comment
CUDDINGWARRA Latitude 27° 22′ S Longitude 117° 47′ E Cuddingwarra was a townsite in the Murchison goldfields near Cue. When gold was first discovered in the area in 1888, the place was known as “Dead Finish”, but when the government gazetted a townsite in 1895, Cuddingwarra was the name chosen. Cuddingwarra is the Aboriginal name […]
Death in the Dark: Unravelling Marin Trdervich’s Fate
10/05/2025 By Leave a Comment
Sunday Times 26 December 1937, page 2 MURDER IN THE DARK Who Killed Marin Trdervich Peculiar Circumstances in the Boulder Tragedy Dead Man’s Mate Talks to “The Sunday Times” Who was the man dimly seen in the darkness of a Boulder street on Monday night, engaged in the act that brought death to 45-year-old Marin […]
Harnessed No More – The Curious Case of Mr Cadzow’s Divorce
03/05/2025 By Leave a Comment
Truth (Perth) 4 July 1908, page 5 THE SADDLER AND HIS WIFE The Harness Parted and the Wife Bolted, John Brown Cadzow, a saddler carrying on business at the lively little town of Leonora, is a man who has a decided objection to wives going out at night unless accompanied by their husbands, and because […]
Where the Road Meets the Past -The Graves at Wilson’s Patch
03/05/2025 By Leave a Comment
Wilson’s Patch – Bundarra between Leonora and Leinster Since the construction of the new bitumen road from Leonora to Agnew/Leinster, the approach to Wilson’s Patch has changed. Sixty-four kilometres along this new road from Leonora is the Teutonic Bore mine turn-off, 6km further is a grave on the left-hand side between the road and the […]
