This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Laurie.

Our old pal, Michael Adams, from the Forgotten Australia podcast, joins us again to tell us about an historical crime.

This time, we're travelling back almost exactly 100 years to the gold mines of Calgoulli in Western Australia.

It's a classic Wild West scenario, with lots of money to be made,

lots of dodgy characters trying to get their hands on it, and an under-resourced police department

tasked with keeping it all under control. This is Australian true crime. We acknowledge the

traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created, the Wurundri

Woi Wurong people of the Kulin Nation. And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains

graphic descriptions of violence. Michael Adams from Forgotten Australia joins us again,

one of my favorite guests.

Oh, thank you so much.

Because you're just such a great storyteller.

Thank you.

And also, I love historical crime.

It tells us so much about Australia.

What are you talking about today?

Talking about a case that I called Blue Murder on the Golden Mile, because it's about

the killing of cops on the Golden Mile

in Western Australia, which was the area around Calgoorlie, which was called the Golden

Mile at turn of the century, because it was the richest place on earth. The gold rush had started

in the 1890s, and by about 1900, Calgoorley was, and Kilgardean Boulder was producing a massive amount of gold,

one third of which was being stolen.

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