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The Boulder Hammer Murder: A Son, an Abusive Household, and a Jury’s Mercy

18/07/2026 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Daily News 28 November 1951, page 1 Hammer Murder In Boulder BOULDER – With head injuries allegedly caused by a hammer blow, a Yugoslav miner was found dead in a Boulder house at 4 a.m. today. A man living in the same house has been arrested and charged with wilful murder. He is a labourer […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Boulder, Goldfields History, murder, Western Australia

The Crown for the Queen of the Murchison –

27/06/2026 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Geraldton Express and Murchison and Yalgo0 Goldfields Chronicle – 26 March 1897 Parer’s Crown Hotel, Cue, is one of the most popular resorts for visitors and residents of the town in which to make their home while in the fields. The name of Parer Bros is well known to everyone who has ever been in […]

Filed Under: Hotels, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Boulder, Cue, Goldfields History, Hotels, Western Australia

Jealousy and Dynamite and Unrequited Love in Boulder

30/05/2026 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Kalgoorlie Western Argus 2 June 1903, page 16 The Dynamite Outrage at Boulder. Arrest of Mrs Elizabeth Charnley A sensational development took place at noon on Thursday in connection with the dynamite explosion at the residence of Mr James Ferguson, telegraph operator, of Boulder, when Detective Walsh, of Kalgoorlie, with Detective McLernon and plainclothes constable […]

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

A Friend’s Deadly Supper: Murder Attempt at Boulder

28/03/2026 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Suicide and Attempted Murder. A SENSATIONAL AFFAIR At Boulder this morning, Alexander Solomon, aged 40 years, 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 works in Boulder. While being searched […]

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

Robert Andrew HAVLIN – grave tales

13/09/2025 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Robert Andrew HAVLIN was born in Bendigo, Victoria, on 8 October 1869. He was the youngest child of Patrick HAVLIN and Margaret EWINGS, both of whom were from Co Tyrone in Ireland. Robert married Emily ‘Emma’ Jane Pearce in Victoria, Australia, in 1894, and their first child, a daughter, Margaret Annie, born the same year, […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Boulder, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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