Murder in Ballarat is thankfully rare, but when it occurs The Courier has covered it in detail.

Caleb Cluff
Updated November 21 2017 - 4:06pm, first published August 22 2017 - 3:30pm
Sadistically murdered: Rosalyn Mary Nolte with her corgi in Hamilton. Nolte was murdered by Charles King and Christopher Lowery in 1971.
Sadistically murdered: Rosalyn Mary Nolte with her corgi in Hamilton. Nolte was murdered by Charles King and Christopher Lowery in 1971.

On Saturday morning, May 21, 1870, James Cook walked into the Armstrong Street shop of the tinsmith William Moss and placed a double-barrelled shotgun under the right breast of Moss’s wife Catherine. He discharged one barrel of the gun, killing Mrs Moss, then placed it under his chin and fired again.

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Caleb Cluff

Caleb Cluff

Senior Journalist, The Courier

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