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Robert Arthur Yeo – grave tales

04/11/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Coolgardie Miner 9 May 1899, page 6 THE STABLE TRAGEDY INQUEST RESUMED VERDICT OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH. The inquest into the circumstances connected with the death of Robert A. Yeo, who was kicked to death in Castieau’s stables on Sunday morning, was resumed yesterday, before Mr H. S. King, J.P. (acting coroner), and a jury consisting […]

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

The Story of Honest Ed Turnbull –

04/11/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Sunday Times 10 June 1934, page 15 SOLITARY HORSEMAN WHO STARTED A GREAT GOLD RUSH Some Made Fortunes and Some Died on the Trail The following report of the discovery of Coolgardie was published in an English paper, “People.” It was written by its special correspondent at Ruckinge in Kent: “Our Special Correspondent” proceeds to […]

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

A Lynching for Kitty –

04/11/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Eastern Recorder – Kellerberrin WA – 3 March 1933 LYNCH LAW IN WA A True Story of Early Goldfields Days by D Dinan.   With, my dear old friend, “Matilda” (my swag), I struck Niagara W.A. early in the nineties. Niagara was some town in those days —four pubs, one at each corner. The pubs […]

Filed Under: People, Poets Corner, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kanowna, pug town, Western Australia

The Leading Ladies of the Goldfields –

28/10/2023 By Moya Sharp 17 Comments

In this story I have featured seven woman who were the wives of men in the public eye and I wish to show that they were much more than just a ‘support act’. This was in 1896, before women had to right to vote in Western Australia (this was not till 1899) but the ‘Married […]

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

A Prospector Looks Back

28/10/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Western Mail 5 September 1935, page 6 THE GOLDEN DAYS A Prospector Looks Back. The fever burns in my veins again, Young blood in my heart doth glow While reading “The Mail,” Of the outback trail And of gold where the mulgas grow. As one of the old brigade who followed close upon the heels […]

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

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