By ELLIOT LINDSAY An artist’s impression of the 522 Marrickville Rd confectionary store shootings Esther Vaughan operated the confectionary store that once occupied 522 Marrickville Road, Dulwich Hill. She sold confectionary and fruit to the local children for over 17 years and had watched the neighbourhood boys and girls grow into men and women. Esther…
By Elliot Lindsay A garage in Glebe became the focus for an English woman’s disappearance, but why? Sydney Police July 1923 mugshot of murder suspect Ellen Kreigher (Sydney Crime & Justice Museum) A squad of detectives arrived at Westmoreland Lane, Glebe, on August 1st, 1923. The dark old laneway led to a dilapidated garage behind…
A long-forgotten murder mystery. The forgotten story of a horrible unsolved murder in Sydney’s colonial North Shore. The bottom of a well On the morning of Monday the 22nd of September, 1862, on an estate located in Sydney’s North Shore, a lifeless male body was found at the bottom of a deep dark well. The…
Very few Sydneysiders had heard of St. Ives in the 1910s when citrus orchards and cow paddocks covered the district. That all changed when the evening news across Australia reported a “shooting in St. Ives” that resulted in the murder of a police sergeant. To this day, mystery shrouds the events that transpired on the…