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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Observer
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 15, 1910
Page
3
A garbled OCR fragment mentions names and places in a jumbled sequence with no clear event. Key terms appear as Katoomba and Way, suggesting a place and perhaps a person or group, but the text is incomprehensible and cannot yield a coherent report or outcome.
An unknown narrator describes weather remarks and a tense scene as M Ghrek discovers a gold nugget on a road near a turned cart wheel. The nugget, weighing about 4 oz dwt 70 gr, bears wear from traffic, its smooth upper surface indicating long exposure to wheels.
Noy Gramellapn age 14 and classmate James Taff were shooting pea rifles in a paddock near Botany-road North Botany when a rifle discharged. Greenslade was hit in the groin and died at Coast Hospital Little Bay early Monday. Taff cannot recall how the rifle discharged.
In a January 20 scene at Holyhead, Wa Murphy a Leigh laborer was condemned to death for Gwen Elfen Jones's Christmas Day murder. The crowd jeered as Judge Pickford pronounced the sentence. Murphy confessed to police and described killing Jones after coercing her on a walk. He claimed he would have killed again if not for the death penalty. The insanity plea failed and the judge set execution by hanging.
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