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 […]
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 […]
Shot in His Sleep — The Day Dawn Murder That Shocked the Goldfields
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 […]
Blood on the Goldfields: The Katherine Cane Tragedy
In March 1909, a shocking murder at Meekatharra stunned the people of the Murchison district and became one of the most widely discussed crimes on the Western Australian goldfields. The victim was Katherine Jane Cane, also known in the district as Caroline Jane Scott, a well-respected young woman who had been living apart from Donald […]
A Friend’s Deadly Supper: Murder Attempt at Boulder
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 […]
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