Peter Dennis Kavanagh joined the Police Force when he was twenty-one. How he crushed the gold-stealing industry on the Golden Mile has now gone down in history. He was tutored by that wonderfully astute Excise Inspector – John Mitchell Christie. He was a born detective, keen and shrewd, with boundless energy. He was also a […]
The Tale of Charles Cummins: Lost in the Outback
In the scorching summer of 1909, the rugged bushland of Western Australia swallowed a young man named Charles Cummins, sparking a relentless search that captivated the small mining communities of Woolgar and Menzies. This is the haunting tale of a man who vanished into the wild, leaving behind only whispers of his presence and a […]
Madman’s Menace: A Constable’s Courageous Rescue
Western Mail 15 July 1905, page 48 DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH A MADMAN. A PLUCKY CONSTABLE SAVES A CHILD. Eccentricities suggestive of religious mania were evidenced by a man named Robert Alexander JOHNSON (more familiarly known as “Professor” St. Clair, the Palmist) during the past week, and they developed to a dangerous stage on Friday night, […]
The Piccadilly Police Station –
This photograph shows Constable (Later Sergeant) Jeremiah John JONES and his wife Evelyn Mortimer nee HOLLOWAY and their infant daughter Eveleyn Margaret Jones, born 1903 in Kalgoorlie (their only child). Jeremiah was born in May 1873 at Wangaratta, Victoria to Owen Jones and Ann Kennedy. He died in Merredin WA in 1932 and is buried […]
Herbert Thomas – his constabulary duties
Herbert Henry Herle Thomas was born on the 9th of January 1865 in Plympton St Mary, Devon in England. he arrived in Western Australia in 1892 and soon after his arrival he joined the West Australia Police Force. The following year he married Emma Eliza Goodwyn nee Burchell, (from Norwood South Australia), in Perth on […]
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