GOLD- that commodity was so powerful, but as a child, I played with it as a toy. It was a glass phial of specks and small nuggets in liquid and tightly corked. I remember shaking it and watching the dull yellow stuff glint in the light. I must have loved it as no accident ever […]
The people of the Goldfields
The Goldfields of Western Australia was and still is made up of many people, from poets to politicians, from saints and sinners and everything in between. I hope to tell you the stories of some of these people either famous or infamous or just the ordinary folks. Sometime the most ordinary people do the most extraordinry things
Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales – 3 October 2021
Hi Everyone, and a big welcome to all of our 49 new readers. We hope that you will stick with us and that you enjoy the stories to come as much as I enjoy finding them. At this time there are over 1300 stories on the blog so I am sure if you take the […]
The Matron and the Major – nurse Annie Jones
In early 1896 Annie Jones from Bendigo, Victoria, was nursing in the Government hospital at Cue, Western Australia. While she was recovering from a mild form of typhoid fever, word came by camel train that Mr. Magnus Maxton Calder, a member of the firm Calder & Co of Cue, was suffering from typhoid fever in […]
Suicide, Cyanide and Scones –
Murchison Advocate 27 February 1904, page 3 Suicide and Attempted Murder. A SENSATIONAL AFFAIR At Boulder this morning, Alexander Solomon, aged 40yrs, a notorious character and well known to the police, was arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of a young fellow named Thomas Frank Rassmussen who was the proprietor of a Gold treatment […]
Robert Kirkpatrick – grave tales
Robert KIRKPATRICK died on 29th July 1909 in his camp at Bronzewing mine site, Western Australia. The cause of death was lung trouble brought on by leading at Broken Hill, NSW. Robert Kirkpatrick ‘AKA as Bob Kirk’ was born on 18th June 1868 in the Forbes district of NSW. His parents were John Kirkpatrick and […]
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