1903 – Sixteen-year-old Agnes Ashworth died after meningitis was superceded by pneumonia. Only a week before her death she was singing in the local church choir at Yackandandah, a former gold mining town in the north-east of Victoria. When she first complained of feeling unwell, her parents talked of taking her to the doctor, butContinue reading “Choir angel dies suddenly”
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Shortcut ends to gruesome demise
It was 64-year-old Alfred James Hockey’s habit to meet the Forbes mail train by taking a short cut across the tracks at Orange Railway Station. He had “rheumatism’’ and so avoided the longer route via an overhead footbridge, half a mile away. His mangled remains were found near the station by two railway shunters onContinue reading “Shortcut ends to gruesome demise”
Way to go Australia 