On the morning of 5 November 1850, inside the high sandstone walls of Darlinghurst Gaol, a young Aboriginal man known as Mogo, also recorded as Mogo Gar, walked calmly toward the gallows. His lips moved gently in prayer as Reverend Bodenham and Reverend Wilkinson supported him on either side. He stepped forward firmly, with a…
By Elliot Lindsay The city hummed with the restless energy of a thousand unspoken sins. Rain slicked the streets, pooling in the cobbled alleys and dripping from the iron eaves of old shopfronts. A tram rattled down King Street, its bell a lonely echo in the thick summer air. A man staggered onto the steps…
By Elliot Lindsay Murder in Newtown: When the gold rush and the wild west came to Sydney There is gold in Newtown! Thursday, 4 November 1852, a local landholder, Mr D. Cooper, claimed to have found gold while panning in Johnstons Creek (today, the creek is buried under Bedford Street). Cooper took several nuggets into…