AN ongoing feud between Cecil ‘Tibby’ Bell and the Thornton brothers came to a tragic end outside the public bar of the Camelia Grove Hotel in Sydney’s inner-south on a summer’s night in 1930. Born in 1910, Tibby Bell grew-up… Read More ›
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Murder outside Paddington pub: Smoking gun placed on the bar of Rose & Crown Hotel
THE son of Paddington publican, Joe Ryan was preparing the Rose and Crown Hotel for another day’s trading in the Spring of 1952 when one of his regular customers calmly walked into the bar, and placed a smoking gun on… Read More ›
Four in Hand Hotel, Paddington
BOUND BODY OF PENSIONER IN HOTEL SYDNEY, Monday – An 85 years old pensioner, Herbert Sidney Butler, was found dead today in his ransacked bed room in the Four-In-Hand Hotel, Paddington. He is believed to have, been attacked by burglars. He… Read More ›
Jealous lover and Fremantle’s Federal Hotel double murder- suicide
The Federal’s violent past revealed By MICK ROBERTS © FREMANTLE’S Federal Hotel was the scene of a gruesome double murder in 1927, when Lillian Martin and her three-year-old son Daniel were found dead in an upstairs bedroom of the building…. Read More ›
Auburn Hotel Tragedy: Constable murdered
SHORTLY before 2 o’clock on Monday morning Constable Samuel Long, 37, was shot dead in the Royal Hotel, Auburn, 11½ miles south of Sydney. The licensee, Mr. P. C. Trautwein, was aroused by sounds from the bar and running down heard a man jump… Read More ›
The Baby Farmers: The former Wollongong publicans who murdered a dozen babies
By MICK ROBERTS © THE 19th century produced many notorious publicans. Arguably though, none were as notorious as the ‘baby farmers’, John and Sarah Makin, one time hosts of Wollongong’s Royal Alfred Hotel. John and Sarah Jane Makin were convicted in 1893… Read More ›