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Wild West Deeds at Bullfinch –

18/01/2025 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Call News-Pictorial Perth – 7 September 1928, page 2 WILD WEST DEEDS AT BULLFINCH Love Lorn Migrant’s Reign of Terror Ends With Bullet Sensational Incidents Follow Rejected Affection Because he loved fifteen-year-old Dorothy Cook, the daughter of a local farmer, a youthful migrant entered upon a series of sensational exploits of terror at Bullfinch on […]

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

Lost in the Bush by Rodney Creek

18/01/2025 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Mirror Perth – 27 December 1907, page 16 AUSTRALIAN BUSH YARN by Rodney Creek, an old Bushman Lost in the Bush It is doubtful if, for bodily and mental anguish, anything can much exceed the hardships of one who is lost in the bush, more especially so when those sufferings are accentuated by the lack […]

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

Jesse Young – a life well lived

11/01/2025 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

The following amazing story has been sent to me by John Hollands, who is the Great Grandson of Jesse Young. What an adventurous life he lead. Kalgoorlie Western Argus 12 October 1909, page 31 THE DEATH OF MR JESSE YOUNG The death occurred suddenly on Friday of Mr Jesse Young, a gentleman who had been […]

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

Doubly Deserted by Val Jameson

04/01/2025 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Western Mail 25 December 1905, page 10 Doubly Deserted by Val Jameson Up in the heavens, a westering sun cast oblique rays, still fiercely hot, on the parched bush that stretched its shrivelled growth as far as the eye could see from the prospectors’ camp. Nearby, a windlass under a roof of boughs stood on […]

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

She Lost Her Husband by a Whisker

04/01/2025 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Truth 13 June 1926, page 8 SHE LOSES A HUSBAND BY A WHISKER Margaret Cramer’s Courtship Bristled with Difficulties JURY AWARDS HER £250 It was at a dance in Tenindewa, a place about fifty miles from Geraldton, WA, in 1921, that Margaret Cramer first met Charles Meadowcroft. Margaret was employed by Mrs Troy, of Indarra, […]

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

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