Sarah Mullins, alias White, convicted of the manslaughter of William Kelly, was next brought up for sentence. Mullins had stabbed Kelly in the thigh with a butchers knife after Kelly threw a stool at her when she refused to stop drinking beer. His Honor said she had had a very narrow escape from the sentence […]
The Big Steal is an Australian caper film directed by Nadia Tass starring Ben Mendelsohn, Claudia Karvan and Steve Bisley. David Parker was the scriptwriter and cinematographer. The film won three Australian Film Institute awards. The film was released on the 20th of September 1990. The movie was shot from the 6th of November to the 22nd […]
A strange premonition happened in Swan Hill, Victoria to Mr Robert Henry Athorne, farmer aged 47, who was run over by his wagon, and died on 22nd May 1916 at the Swan Hill Hospital. In March, Athorne dreamt that he would meet with a fatal accident, which he took such notice of the premonition, that […]
After hearing evidence yesterday at the inquest on the body of Eugene Patrick Walsh, who died in the Melbourne Hospital on May 27, 1922, the coroner (Dr. Cole) committed Percy Draper for trial on a charge of manslaughter. The death of Walsh followed a dispute with Draper in Swanston street on the night of […]
Big Girl’s Blouse is an Australian skit program that aired on the 13th of October 1994 on the Seven Network. The show was created by Gin Riley, Jane Turner and Magda Szubanski who all went on to star in Kath and Kim. The show ran for one season with 9 half-hour episodes. The phrase “Big […]
On Monday the 24th of May 1965, Humphrey B. Bear an icon of Australian children’s television was first broadcast on Adelaide’s NWS-9. The show became one of the most successful programs for pre-schoolers in Australia. The part of Humphrey was played by Edwin Duryea, an actor, singer and dancer whose human identity was never revealed. In […]
During the morning of May 19, 1905, Mrs. Tierney, who lived with her husband at his farm at Gymbowen, complained of a feeling of weakness and the loss of the use of her legs. Not much importance was attached to the attack, as in a few hours, Mrs. Tierney was well again, and performed her […]
Bellbird is an Australian soap opera serial set in a small Victorian rural township. The series was produced by the ABC at its Ripponlea TV studios in Elsternwick, Melbourne. The opening title sequence was filmed at Daylesford, Victoria. The series was produced between the 28th of August 1967 and the 23rd of December 1977. Although […]
Former prime minister and world beer dinking record breaker, Bob Hawke has died at the age of 89. The Labor legend died in his Sydney home today just two days before the May 18 federal election. Hawke, arguably one of the most popular prime ministers in Australian history, is survived by his wife Blanche d’Alpuget, […]
Ernst Schneider, 83, who died at Dubbo, NSW, in 1943, completed some years ago all arrangements for his funeral. He selected the casket, and even engraved .the nameplate for his own coffin. The undertaker had only to insert the date of his death. “He was more concerned with the hereafter than this world,” said a friend […]
Donald Maxfield was reported missing from Colac on the 13th of May, 1953. On the 1st of August 1953, the torso of a man was pulled from the Barwon River. Divers would eventually find the rest of Maxfield’s body, which had been dismembered and placed in kerosene tins and sunk in the Barwon River. […]
Bendigo Advertiser 4 January 1887 Referring to the recent murderous assault by a daughter upon her mother at Horsham, the “Horsham Times” says that a man named Clarke had been living with a woman named Emma Marquadt, who passed as his wife, and her daughter, Mary, aged sixteen years. The Attack On Wednesday afternoon, when […]
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