The Perth Ballroom Tragedy
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Episode 406 comes from a special request from one of my many listeners Down Under, this one the tragic story of a spurned young woman who settles the score on the dance floor. And we’re not talking about a tango competition, but her trial is a dramatic one and the resolution is indeed surprising.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of True Crime Historian is made possible in part by scoundrels like Lindley Bennett, |
| 0:05.2 | whose bean dip has been a big hit at the Thursday night Blackjack tournaments. |
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| 0:38.4 | dot com |
| 0:39.9 | August 27th |
| 0:46.1 | 1925 |
| 0:49.8 | Perth's greatest ballroom |
| 0:52.0 | shone brightly with light and gaiety on Wednesday night. |
| 0:56.0 | When hundreds of glad-hearted boys and girls and their elders danced and made Mary to aid the benevolence of the hospital of St. John of God, |
| 1:05.0 | they had chased the glowing hours with flying feet, and the grand ball was drawing to a happy close the |
| 1:13.0 | night had passed into early morn. It was one of those scenes on which the high gods seemed to smile. |
| 1:20.9 | As a couple of hundred dancers trily to the cheery tune of Folly Vette, the sharp report of an automatic pistol drew all eyes toward |
| 1:31.0 | a group of three persons. |
| 1:33.7 | One, a girl, young, slim, dressed in blue, the other a well-set-up young man in fall evening |
| 1:42.0 | dress, and the dancers were stricken with horror when they saw the man |
| 1:47.0 | dropped to the floor, shot through the heart. Hushed chatter, little startled cries, a scatter |
| 1:55.0 | a girl with a revolver, and a young man with a blood-smeared face, dying on the floor. |
| 2:05.1 | Terror was upon the gay hall. |
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