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Murder and Suicide at Nannine –

18/11/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Inquirer and Commercial News  29 March 1895, page 6 THE RECENT TRAGEDY AT NANNINE. THE MURDER OF JOHN SUTHERLAND. SUICIDE OF HIS ASSAILANT. THE INQUEST. Full details reached the Murchison Times by the last mail regarding: the murder and suicide which occurred at Nannine about a fortnight ago. A brief account, received by wire, appeared […]

Filed Under: People, Poets Corner, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, murder, Nannine, Suicide, Western Australia

A Lynching for Kitty –

04/11/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Eastern Recorder – Kellerberrin WA – 3 March 1933 LYNCH LAW IN WA A True Story of Early Goldfields Days by D Dinan.   With, my dear old friend, “Matilda” (my swag), I struck Niagara W.A. early in the nineties. Niagara was some town in those days —four pubs, one at each corner. The pubs […]

Filed Under: People, Poets Corner, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kanowna, pug town, Western Australia

Just a Stockmans Grave – by Trevor Tilka

07/10/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

William Heron, an Irishman, was about 65 years old when he died in March 1927. He was a station hand and stockman on the Wanarra Station near Wubin. He was drowned in a flash flood in the area and his body was discovered some distance away washed up against a tree two miles from his […]

Filed Under: Books, Grave Tales, People, Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Stockman, Western Australia

The Swagmans Friend –

19/08/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Quart-Pot and Billy-Can No utensil is so generally used in the bush as the billy-can; none is more widely distributed, none better known in Australia. It is cheap, light, useful, and a burden to no man. It goes with every traveller, it figures in comedy and tragedy and has been the repository of the […]

Filed Under: Dolly Pot, Poets Corner, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales

The Abandoned Mine –

15/07/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Western Mail Perth – 18 August 1949, page 15 The Abandoned Mine Gaunt, against a lowering sky, With steely fingers interlaced, and capped with a motionless wheel,The poppet head looks down upon its lesser satellites, clustered ‘neath its towering heights. A huddled group of sheds and stores, with staring windows, broken doors. Deserted cage and […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History

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