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Murder Before the Cinderella Ball

26/09/2026 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The murder-suicide tragedy of Nurse Elizabeth Gold and Kenneth Snodgrass is a tale quite widely known, but I have not before told the story on the Outback Family History Blog. In Coolgardie in the 1890’s, Elizabeth Gold, Charles Gold and Kenneth Snodgrass and his family were living in Coolgardie, WA. As with many tragedies, the […]

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

Jealousy, a Woman and Murder in the Dark

12/09/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times 26 December 1937, page 2 MURDER IN THE DARK Who Killed Marin Trdervich Peculiar Circumstances in Boulder Tragedy Dead Man’s Mate Talks to “The Sunday Times”. Who was the man dimly seen in the darkness of a Boulder street on Monday night engaged in the act that brought death to 45-year-old Marin Trdervich? […]

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

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

Death at Dawn – The Tragic End of Mianoor Mahomet

20/06/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

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 […]

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

Shot in His Sleep — The Day Dawn Murder That Shocked the Goldfields

16/05/2026 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

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 […]

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

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