Bendigo Advertiser

Cases like that of Minnie Hall and her husband Charles Hall in 1897.

Journalists from the Bendigo Advertiser and other newspapers flocked to the Eagle Hawk Courthouse then.

Their detailed newspaper reports about the disturbing evidence of spiralling relationships before Minnie's death in February of 1897 are searchable on Trove and in the public records of Victoria.

Mr John Smith, in his opening address, described the crime as one of great deliberation and shocking cruelty and one that had been cunningly planned.

The son, I don't know.

I think he got more money to deliver the Bendigo Advertiser, which is the local paper.

Barry got promoted.

So Ginger took his old run and then I took Ginger's run.