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The Murder of Michael Naughton –

22/10/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Sun – Kalgoorlie – 22 February 1920 A MURCHISON MYSTERY UNRAVELED BY INSPECTOR MANN By the time Inspector Mann was 10 years, in the C.I.D. he was recognised as one of the ablest detectives in Australia. His only rival In WA was the late Detective Sergeant Kavanagh, but he was in charge of the […]

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

Cue Cemetery and Help Arrives

15/10/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Next week will be published the finished first draft (is it ever finished?) of the Cue Cemetery Burial Register. For the last 18 months John Pritchard and I have been working on an upgrade of the Cue Cemetery records. Not being happy with just a name and a date, John proceeded to try find out […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Cue, Goldfields History, Western Australia

The Contract at Old Warden Shaft

24/09/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times: 22 December 1907 Old “Boney Brim” and his old mate Jolly walked deliberately into the bar of The Miners’ Arms, at Cue, and each drank a pint of beer. The contract for sinking the main shaft of the Old Warden mine another hundred feet had just been let, and the two mates had […]

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

The Passing of Jones by Bungarra

20/08/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Geraldton Express and Murchison and Yalgo Goldfields Chronicler – 23 December 1898, page 6 THE PASSING OF JONES by Bungarra Jones was a friend of mine!!   In all fairness, I must state, however, that the connection was not of my own seeking. Like poverty, subpoenas, and subscription lists, it was thrust upon me. The first […]

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

Murder or Suicide – that is the question.

30/07/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

While conducting extensive research into those buried who are buried in the Cue Cemeteries, John Pritchard came across this unusual story about the death of a man who was among the earliest burials in the most unusual circumstances. BURDETT Robert Ambrose — 43 yrs, d 26 Mar 1894, in Cue WA, he was born in […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Cue, Goldfields History, murder, Suicide, Western Australia

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