1945 – Thirteen-year-old Trevor Burt fell from a tree when a branch snapped, plunging him into the creek below and breaking his neck. Trevor and some other boys were swimming in Narrabri Creek behind the town’s Scout Hall (in the centre of today’s town) about 4pm. He had been swimming and diving off a spring boardContinue reading “Boy plunged from tree to death”
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Barman kills policemen
Why would a barman shoot two policemen dead and wound a third in Bourke in 1877? No-one really knows, but newspapers of the day blamed either the delirium tremors, or a temporary madness on the part of one Samuel Getting. “ He must, it is thought, have been suddenly afflicted with homicidal mania, or madness,Continue reading “Barman kills policemen”
Way to go Australia 