Showing posts with label theft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theft. Show all posts

Wednesday 10 January 2024

Frank Butler aka Richard Ashe The Blue Mountains Murderer 1858 - 1897

 Serial killer Frank Butler aka Richard Ashe was a garden variety prick; he's been incorrectly labelled "Australia's First Serial Killer" - nah, plenty of those mongrel bastards came before Frank. 

It was Australia's First Serial Killer MANHUNT.

Gutless mongrel; he shot his victims in the back after he'd got them to dig their own graves.
Plenty all over the net about this piece of vile canker.

His victims were 

Captain Lee Weller

Arthur Preston

Charles Burgess

Further details - 

Five of a Kind

Forgotten Australia podcast 

Australia's first serial killer manhunt

Thursday 4 January 2024

The King of Iceland, founder of Hobart, Jorgen Jorgensen 29 March 1780 – 20 January 1841

 Jorgen Jorgensen was talented in many ways; sailor, spy, seditionist and silly bugger.

He was present at the foundation of Hobart, witnessed the Battle of Copenhagen, arrested the Danish Governor of Iceland then declared himself the Protector of Iceland - which lasted barely 2 months before he was voted off the island and back to England.

He managed to get employed by the British Intelligence Service where he translated documents and wandered about as a spy during the Napoleonic Wars, but then ran into a little trouble where he was accused of theft and voted back to an island , Tasmania.

The Convict King is immortalised in stone relief on the beautiful Ross Bridge with his crown.


Further reading -

Jørgen Jørgensen: The Convict King


When Bribie Island lost its cemetery. 1936

 To lose a cemetery is rather careless, but how one goes about losing it in the first place is so easy - just don't use it! Source; The ...