New Call and Bailey’s Weekly 25 July 1935 WHAT WIFE SAW THROUGH A CUE WINDOW Lively Ructions In Girl’s Room Chief Justice Grants Decree Nisi That a wife through a Cue window saw her husband in bed with another woman was alleged when before the Chief Justice (Sir John Northmore) this week Edith Bowes sought […]
Death at Dawn – The Tragic End of Mianoor Mahomet
Kalgoorlie Western Argus 10 May 1904, page 29 MENZIES MURDERER EXECUTED Mianoor Mahomet, the Menzies murderer, was hanged at Fremantle this morning, a couple of minutes after the appointed hour, 8 o’clock. The doomed man had only to step across a few paces of the open yard to the house of execution. He had asked […]
A Voice for Women and Children: The Story of Bessie Jordan
Elizabeth Jane Ann ‘Bessie’ Jones was born on 17 August 1877 in Sandhurst, Victoria. She was the daughter of James Jones (1849-1892) and Harriet Jones nee Harry (1851-1925). She had only one sibling, James Henry Jones, born 15 Aug 1882. At the age of 20 years, she married Richard Michael Jordan on the 27th of […]
The Importance of Being Gordon
GORDON Latitude 30° 27′ S Longitude 121° 35′ E Gordon is an abandoned eastern goldfields townsite about 35 km north-northeast of Kalgoorlie. The development of gold mines in the area in 1896 created a need for a townsite. The townsite was gazetted in 1897. It is not known who the name commemorates, but it is […]
A Bolt from the Blue: The Astonishing Experience of William Smith
Kalgoorlie Western Argus 28 January 1908, page 20 STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. A Singular Experience There are probably few men who have been struck by lightning and have survived to tell the tale. One of them, if there are any others, is William Smith, from Kalgoorlie, who is depicted here as he appeared after his extraordinary […]
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