Sunday Times 10 June 1934, page 15 SOLITARY HORSEMAN WHO STARTED A GREAT GOLD RUSH Some Made Fortunes and Some Died on the Trail The following report of the discovery of Coolgardie was published in an English paper, “People.” It was written by its special correspondent at Ruckinge in Kent: “Our Special Correspondent” proceeds to […]
A Lynching for Kitty –
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 […]
A Prospector Looks Back
Western Mail 5 September 1935, page 6 THE GOLDEN DAYS A Prospector Looks Back. The fever burns in my veins again, Young blood in my heart doth glow While reading “The Mail,” Of the outback trail And of gold where the mulgas grow. As one of the old brigade who followed close upon the heels […]
Meat For the Fields – the Rowell Boys
Western Mail 12 February 1953, page 23 WESTRALIANA Meat for the Fields by E. ROWELL A Butcher who was a heavyweight athlete and successful prospector, too, will be remembered by some who were on the Eastern Goldfields in 1894. My elder brother Bill went to Coolgardie some months after Bayley and Ford found the rich […]
Dastardly and Diabolical Deed at Day Dawn
Evening Mail – Fremantle 23 March 1908, page 1 No one will deny that Harry Goninon Smith, who at 8 o’clock this morning paid, on the scaffold at the Fremantle Prison, the last penalty for the supreme crime in the criminal calendar, was the murderer of the man, William John Clinton at Day Dawn. No […]
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