 On his deathbed, Leo Silvester/Sylvester Hannan confessed to three murders. That brought his total to four, making him a serial murderer.
It’s unusual in New Zealand. We have a few mass murderers, like David Gray and Stephen Anderson, but we are mostly free of what are called serial killers overseas. Red-haired blue eyed Leo Hannan who also called himself Herbert James Ross, was born on October 23, 1900. He was the last of eight children to Edmond Hannan, a carpenter, born in 1857 in County Cork, Ireland. Edmond immigrated to New Zealand in 1877 on the ship Oamaru and married Annie Bannor from Donegal, Ireland in 1881. Not all that much is known about his childhood but he was considered of low intellect and somewhat abandoned by his family early. Despite that he tried to make it as a bootmaker but most often was itinerant around the North Island. He spent most of his life in and out of prison. He was in Rangipo prison for safe breaking in 1926 from which he escaped. He wasn’t ever caught, instead he turned himself in and in 1931 was sentenced again in Waipukurau for burglary. IN 1940 he went to jail for a large number of burglaries and then again in 1941. In 1943 he skipped out on military service and was picked up by police and turned over to military police. It was a murder in 1950 that put an end to Hannan’s freedom. Frederick Andrew Stage, 54, was a tough ex-military man who worked as a night watchman at the Wellington Railway Station. His body was found about 1.30pm on August 10, lying face down, badly battered. He had been bashed with an iron bar. Hannan was in custody before dawn broke. He had been found with blood on his face, hands and shoes. Ironically it was Dr Lynch, the pathologist who had been called to the murder of the two sisters, who was called to examine him and noticed the blood. Despite his denial he went to trial and was convicted and sentenced to life. He had a brief reprieve when he escaped while working in the prison quarry while in Auckland but was caught. It was in 1962 that Hannan was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He spoke to his lawyer George Israel Joseph confessing that not only had he killed Stade, but also the two sisters Annie and Rosamund Symth in Wairoa in 1942 and that he was also responsible for the death of Herbert William Brunton on December 16, 1948. Brunton, 69, a former railway guard who lived alone, was killed in his railway hut near the Wairoa Railway Station. His neighbour went to visit him and found his body sitting propped against the bed in a pool of blood. He had been killed by blows to his head. Brunton’s killing sparked a huge manhunt by police who took more than 5000 fingerprints from the men in the area. Joseph included the story in a book he wrote, By a Person or Persons Unknown but did not use Hannan’s name. It was not until many years later that a researcher for the television programme Epitaph asked Chief Inspector Sherwood Young, the grandson of the police officer in charge in Wairoa at the time of the killings who it was. Young gave him Hannan’s name. But by then Hannan had died aged 61, on October 9, 1962, only three months after his deathbed confession He is buried in Waikumete Cemetery.
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 In August 1942 the people of Wairoa were deeply troubled.
No one had seen Annie Smyth, 63, or her 74-year-old deaf sister Rosamund Jane Smyth for days. Annie was well known in the area, out riding her bike. A brigadier in the Salvation Army, she had been stationed in Japan for many years before going to Wairoa. She and her sister lived behind the Salvation Army hall on King Street but often went out and about spreading the word. Annie was born at Kaiwharawhara, Wellington on October 25, 1878, to Edward Smyth and Isabella Cansick. She was the seventh of 10 children, Rosamund was her elder sister. When Rosamund went to a talk by William Booth who founded the Christian Mission that became the Salvation Army, Annie went too, later going into training. When asked to be New Zealand’s first overseas salvationist, she accepted and went to Japan. She worked for the rehabilitation of prostitutes and travelled extensively. She never married and served in Japan for 34 years, stopping only because of the outbreak of World War two. When she returned to New Zealand she asked to keep serving and wanted the most difficult location they had and ended up in Wairoa. It was war-time in New Zealand and Annie was fond of many things Japanese. It wasn’t a popular sentiment. She was a vigorous, active woman, considered brash and even bullying. Annie missed a meeting on August 9 and originally it was thought she was just out ministering, then on the 16th, a group turned up for service but found the doors shut. A neighbour, thinking it was strange, spoke to her lodger Arthur Percy Farn, who managed to get into the house through a window and found, to his horror, Annie lying dead in a chair. She had been brutally hacked about the head. Rosamund was found lying under a bed with similar wounds. It began a huge police investigation. A blood stained axe was found in a wash house at the rear of the property. Annie had been hit with the axe while Rosamund had been killed with a poker. Police struggled, pleading for information. A number of people had seen Annie, on August 8 - when both sisters were believed to have been killed. They offered a reward of £500 to no avail. There was a inquest more than six months later - headed by Dr Lynch (see one of our previous stories) and he outlined the head wounds to Annie and Rosamund. Despite Annie’s clothes being rearranged, Dr Lynch thought it was for show and that neither woman had been interfered with. His belief was despite Rosamund being deaf, she realised there was a commotion in the house and had confronted her sister’s murderer, ending in her becoming the second victim. A funeral service was held in Wellington for both sisters who are buried at Karori Cemetery. And for years who killed them was unknown. Until 1999. Keep watch for our next update: The serial killer’s death bed confession.  In 1890 Arthur Bently Worthington took Christchurch by storm.
He created a new religion, known as the Students of Truth, after he arrived with his attractive wife Mary (Margaret) Plunkett from America. Worthington had charm in spades. Tall, handsome, with steel-blue grayish eyes, a fluent talker and appeared to be a well-bred gentleman. People flocked to the new ideas. Within two years the sect was successful enough to have built a Temple of Truth and beside it, a big 12-room residence for the Worthington family. Worthington was well ahead of the times. He was teaching, among other things, free love, the non-resistance of evil and was known for ‘visiting’ the female members of the church. A group of Christchurch clergymen, led by Methodist minister John Hoskin, began publicly opposing him. And Hosking, suspecting him of swindling his congregation, went further, investigating Worthington’s past. His investigations revealed that Worthington was actually Oakley Crawford, sometimes called Samuel Oakley Crawford, born March 1, 1847 in Saugerties, New York State. He had served in the American civil war and was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1867. His first marriage to Josephine Erricson Moore in 1868 was the first of nine. All except the first were bigamous. He also started on a long life of fraud, changing his name to Worthington, going to jail in 1870 in New York for obtaining money by false pretences. Once he came out of prison,he began marrying women, taking all their money then abandoning them - sometimes having fathered children. In 1889 Worthington joined a Christian Scientist sect as a faith healer. There he met Mary Plunkett, the wife of John Plunkett. Plunkett investigated Worthington finding he was the “one of the most notorious rascals in the United States”. Worthington, declaring that Mary had converted him to righteousness, fled to New Zealand. Under fire from Hosking, Worthington denied it all. But he then made a big mistake. He ejected Mary from his church and his household, which resulted in some of his church members turning against him. Mary went to Sydney. Moves were made during police investigations to have Worthington extradited back to America or to sue him. The situation was made worse when he ‘married’ Evelyn Maud Jordan, an Australian woman living in Christchurch. In December 1895 he fled New Zealand, supposedly to gain funds, and ended up in Hobart, Tasmania. When his ventures there failed, he came back to Christchurch in 1897 but public opinion had grown against him and he was faced with threatened riots. He left again - never to return. But he continued his tricks - being jailed in Melbourne in 1902 for defrauding a wealthy French widow by telling her he was the reincarnated god Osiris and she was his Isis. After release from prison, he and his family - the long-suffering Evelyn and their three children - ended up in the United States where he set up as a Presbyterian minister but continued swindling. He was jailed again and died of a heart attack on December 13, 1917 while in custody in New York. Meanwhile, the spurned Mary had returned to Christchurch and in 1901 married dentist John Stains Atkinson. Within a few months she took her own life in a fountain at her home aged 53. She is buried in the Barbardoes Street Cemetery.  Chinese immigrant Ham Sing Tong was, in 1905, found dead in his house, bludgeoned, shot and set on fire.
Today, 116 years later, his murder is still unsolved despite two men going to trial for it. Tong was aged somewhere between 60 and 65 and was living in Tapanui, a small forestry town in West Otago, known as the place Tapanui flu is named after. The newspaper coverage of the day reveals a lot about how Chinese immigrants were looked at back then, reporting that Tong was not involved with opium or sly grogging which was often the prevailing racist stereotype. Despite this, Tong was seen by his neighbours as a good-natured hard-working gold miner and was well respected. He lived alone on the outskirts of Tapanui and was known for either carrying his money around or having it in his house and, as such, always locked himself in at night. This was not unusual in that era as many people did not trust banks or lived so far away that using one was not practical. Late on the night of 21 August 1905 nearby residents heard a shot ring out. The next day, his friend Ah Chong found his body in the bedroom. Initially police were unsure what killed him. There was a large bruise on his forehead and his clothes were nearly burned off. The floor was strewn with the remains of a bottle. An autopsy revealed there was a bullet in his right shoulder, which one doctor thought would have left him paralysed as it had severed his spine. More than £70 was found in his house. But he was believed to be worth about £200 - a huge sum in those days - worth about $48,000 now. The police case was that he was bludgeoned with a whiskey bottle first. He resisted, which led to him being shot. Then a lamp was broken to spread kerosene on the bedclothes and set alight. By the end of August, Thomas Stott, a 38-year-old labourer and George Hill Bromley, a 17-year-old farm hand, were arrested for his murder. The two lived together in a hut on Bromley’s father’s property. A revolver was found in their hut. Also found were some skeleton keys, one of which would have opened Tong’s house. Stott, an Aboriginal Australian, had lived in Tapanui for several years. Newspapers reported he had a reputation as a fighting man and was known for becoming "ugly" when drunk. He was more than six feet tall (1.83m) and had a tattoo of a tombstone on his right arm and one on his left arm stating: DO YOU REMEMBER TOM STOTT. Stott was known to be broke, but in the day or two after the murder he was seen in the nearby town of Heriot, flush with cash and telling different stories about where he got it. The Supreme Court trial took place in Dunedin in December 1905 and went several days. One of New Zealand's most noted defence lawyers Alfred Charles Hanlon, appeared for the two men. Bloodstains had been found on the clothes of both men, and one of the pair had borrowed a rifle from Tong only two days before he was found dead. Hanlon had no witnesses to call in defence, but it did not stop him attacking. He challenged a great many aspects of the Crown case. He also intimated that a Crown witness - a John Reddit - may also have been the killer. The all-male jury found both men not guilty, although they asked if they could return a verdict of not proven - which the presiding judge said was the same thing. No other person has been convicted of the crime. Three years after being acquitted of the murder, Stott was back in court again, this time for shooting 19-year-old Mary Brown with a double-barrelled shotgun, wounding her in the arm. Stott and the girl's father were drinking buddies. On June 20, 1908, after a drinking session at the Brown's house Mary told Stott to leave. He did, but he returned with the gun charging into the house and shooting her. He was sentenced to five years in prison. Stott was released in March 1912. In 1915 he served a further six months in prison for being a rogue and vagabond. Records don't show what happened to him after that. Perhaps he went back to Australia. Tong is buried in Tapanui cemetery under the name Am Sing Tong. He has no headstone or grave marker.  Ever wondered how someone came up with the name of the street you live on?
Some - like Main, High, Victoria, Prince, Regent etc- are in every town. And then there are the more musical Maori names. But what about the stranger ones? Are there stories behind them? Petone’s Riddlers Crescent caught my eye and I couldn’t resist doing a little research. (I was pretty sure it wasn’t named after the Batman villain). Turns out it's a family name. Thomas Riddler was the son of William and Elizabeth (nee Sparrow) Riddler who came to New Zealand in 1842. William, from Harefield, Gloucestershire in England came on the Thomas Sparks, caring for a cargo of stock for the Hon. Henry Petre - one of Wellington’s founders - who had a 100 acre block in what is now Petone encompassing what is now Riddlers Crescent. He gave it to William who settled down there with his wife Elizabeth. Their children were born there, including Thomas. When he was born there were only four other houses. He was the first to be christened in the English church in the Hutt. Thomas went on to be a stock agent and farmed at Tawa until the death of his father. He married Mary Hirst in 1873. He helped create Petone and was one of the escort of calvary for the Duke of Edinburgh on a trip to Upper Hutt. At the time of his death aged 87, on 21 August, 1936, he was one of the oldest surviving settlers in the Hutt and had six sons and two daughters. His land was divided into lots and sold on his death - creating the area through which Riddlers Crescent runs. He is buried in Christ Church cemetery in Taita. Ever wondered about your street name? Tell us and we’ll take a look.  William Lee lay pinned to his own bed in his Northe Street, Napier home after a huge beam from his house fell on him.
The beam had been dislodged by a slip that had slammed into the back of his house while he was asleep at 4.30am on April 26. It was the last day of a three-day rain storm that devastated Hawke’s Bay in 1938. Prolonged heavy rain caused severe flooding in Gisborne and Hawke's Bay beginning on April 24. The rain fell so fast thousands of acres of farmland was quickly submerged, farm animals drowning, unable to get out of the way. Most roads suffered from slips or flooding. Near Gisborne, Maki Morepi was drowned when he tried to cross the Waiapu River and the body of waterside worker Donald McLaren was found in the Waikanae Creek after he had fallen from a footbridge. Picturesque Esk Valley, with its pretty church and vineyards, was the hardest hit. Esk Valley homes and farmland became buried by over 1.6 metres of silt or ruined by floodwaters and landslides. The river rose 10 metres and quickly burst its banks. Silt blanketed the whole valley floor and wrecked houses. Many residents tried to escape through it before being rescued. High on the hillside of the Upper Esk Valley, on the early morning of April 25 - Anzac Day - Harry O’Donel Bourke and his wife Kathleen Maud watched as the waters rose. But it was not the biggest danger. Above them, a large mass of earth weakened by rain began to move. The slip barrelled through their home at about 9am. The four adults and three children in the house managed to escape to their old woolshed only to watch more earth entirely destroy their house. Cut off from the road, the seven of them huddled for three days in the woolshed before being able to get to their horses and ride out. Nearby, France House, a boys' home in Esk Valley was also completely cut off and a troop of police were needed to rescue the boys and staff. In the greater Hawke’s Bay county 51 bridges were destroyed. Residents at Clive had to be rescued in boats, the water being so high. Some families were so cut off supplies were dropped to them by plane. In a cruel twist, one of the planes crashed in the Pakuratahi Valley and the injured crew had to wait 19 hours to be rescued. Mr Lee’s fate was discovered by the milkman who, with two other men, lifted the beam off him. He was taken to hospital and found to have severely fractured ribs. His house had been moved 20 feet off its foundations by the slip. Mr Lee, who was born in County Clare in Ireland on July 12, 1870, had been a soldier for 2 years during World War One and received the British War Medal and discharged in 1918 for no longer being physically fit due to injuries sustained during his service, most likely a sprained ankle while in Egypt. He does not appear to have ever married. There is no mention of him again in news reports of the time other than to say the former soldier and labourer was not badly injured but he appears to have died a few months later - on August 5 - and is buried at the Park Island Cemetery aged 68.  People rushed toward the fire beginning to burn out of control in the grocers and drapers shop of Benge and Pratt on Upper Hutt’s Main Street.
Many wanted to help get stock out. It was what we did, helped our neighbours out. But this time it would turn deadly. Benge and Pratt was a well known store. It had expanded only a few years before. There was little it did not sell. When the fire broke out late on a Saturday night in March 1914 it was not immediately noticed in a back room to the grocery store. Senior partner Herbert Victor Benge (sometimes referred to as Victor Herbert) left the store about 10pm. He was at the back of the premises in the bakehouse. The fire was noticed shortly after. People ran to help, other storekeepers and police. Fire was always a danger and everyone pitched in. Upper Hutt had no fire brigade. Members of the public and other store owners were trying to move goods and assemble hoses to fight the fire when there was a huge explosion. It was so large it was heard as far away as Kaiwharawhara. The hands of the clock on the Post Office were frozen at the time of the explosion - 12.09am on March 29, 1914. The nearby Provincial Hotel was badly damaged, with nearly every window blown in, the porch destroyed and doors blown off their hinges. The night train from Auckland to Wellington had just pulled into Upper Hutt and one of its guards was killed by the blast. The train was quickly repurposed to take the injured into Wellington. But by the end, eight had died. They were Constable Denis ‘Dinny’ Mahoney - who had been one of the first to arrive to help, train guard William Flynn, Upper Hutt’s postmaster James Comesky, railway porter George Taylor, bridge contractor Michael Toohey, assistant storeman John Wesley Vivian, town board member Virgil McGovern and blacksmith Everard Pelling. Initially it was unclear what had caused the explosion. The store owners denied there was any explosives in the store but it was discovered that there was a barrel of gelignite illegally stored. It had been set off when the fire reached it. The police station was across the road and it was Mahoney who was first on the scene helping to get people out of nearby buildings and trying to get goods out. He had just made the decision to get all the helpers out when the shop exploded. Mahoney had been born in Limerick, Ireland about 1873 and came to New Zealand with his siblings. He worked as a miner before becoming a police officer. He had been stationed in central Wellington and Woodville before becoming Upper Hutt’s cop in 1905 when he also married Mary Dennehy and had three children. He is buried, along with three others killed in the disaster, in the St Joseph’s Catholic Church graveyard.  At a dip in the road called Mystery Creek, a shot rang out.
Two bank officers were transporting a large amount of cash. It was sale day in the Hamilton area, and banks often sent officers to other areas carrying bundles of money. Leslie Ray Jordan, 26, ledger-keeper for the Bank of New Zealand and William Fox Langley Ward, the Hamilton manager of the Bank of Australia were heading to Ohaupo in a single horse buggy on February 8, 1910. Ward was driving when they went through the dip called Mystery Creek about 11am when the shot was fired from the bushes. The shot hit Jordan in the head, neck and shoulder with great force. The horse tried to bolt but with great presence of mind, Ward controlled the horse and pulled his own revolver. He saw nothing however and took Jordan to a nearby house and then to hospital and even went on to deliver the money to the respective banks. It was later found that Jordan had been hit by 85 pellets from a shotgun. He also lost his false teeth which were blown out of his mouth. For the local police the hunt was on. There was a great deal of local outrage and people came forward. Quite a number had seen John Mintern Paull with a gun. Paull was born February 18, 1891 in Christchurch. He was the fifth of eight children to Robert John Paull and Annie Mary Mintern. Paull had been seen by people both before and after the robbery attempt with a gun. He had hired a horse at a stable and told the stable master he was going to Te Rapa to get a gun mended there. Jordan himself knew Paull on sight. Paull was 19 at the time and employed as a junior clerk by a local firm of grain merchants. It did not take him long to be arrested. He told police a group of Māori had told him they were going to rob the men and he had to help them on pain of death. He blamed them for firing on the bank officials. Paull was charged with attempted murder and after a preliminary hearing pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court on March 1, 1910 and was sentenced to seven years by Justice Edwards. It seems to have been his one brush with serious crime. A doctor said Jordan was shot in the face and some of the shot was still embedded, leaving him with a facial paralysis. Paull died in Marlborough on November 30, 1967 and is buried in Wakapuaka Cemetery.  At a dip in the road called Mystery Creek, a shot rang out.
Two bank officers were transporting a large amount of cash. It was sale day in the Hamilton area, and banks often sent officers to other areas carrying bundles of money. Leslie Ray Jordan, 26, ledger-keeper for the Bank of New Zealand and William Fox Langley Ward, the Hamilton manager of the Bank of Australia were heading to Ohaupo in a single horse buggy on February 8, 1910. Ward was driving when they went through the dip called Mystery Creek about 11am when the shot was fired from the bushes. The shot hit Jordan in the head, neck and shoulder with great force. The horse tried to bolt but with great presence of mind, Ward controlled the horse and pulled his own revolver. He saw nothing however and took Jordan to a nearby house and then to hospital and even went on to deliver the money to the respective banks. It was later found that Jordan had been hit by 85 pellets from a shotgun. He also lost his false teeth which were blown out of his mouth. For the local police the hunt was on. There was a great deal of local outrage and people came forward. Quite a number had seen John Mintern Paull with a gun. Paull was born February 18, 1891 in Christchurch. He was the fifth of eight children to Robert John Paull and Annie Mary Mintern. Paull had been seen by people both before and after the robbery attempt with a gun. He had hired a horse at a stable and told the stable master he was going to Te Rapa to get a gun mended there. Jordan himself knew Paull on sight. Paull was 19 at the time and employed as a junior clerk by a local firm of grain merchants. It did not take him long to be arrested. He told police a group of Māori had told him they were going to rob the men and he had to help them on pain of death. He blamed them for firing on the bank officials. Paull was charged with attempted murder and after a preliminary hearing pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court on March 1, 1910 and was sentenced to seven years by Justice Edwards. It seems to have been his one brush with serious crime. A doctor said Jordan was shot in the face and some of the shot was still embedded, leaving him with a facial paralysis. Paull died in Marlborough on November 30, 1967 and is buried in Wakapuaka Cemetery.  In the 1890s the world was in the grips of a pandemic of the Black Death. Cases of bubonic plague were first reported in China and spread across the planet through trade routes eventually killing around 10 million people.
New Zealanders watched in fear as news of the spreading plague was reported in local newspapers and when cases began to appear in Australia in January 1900, the New Zealand government began making urgent preparations for its appearance on our shores. In Auckland a two-acre block of land on the Domain was chosen for a plague hospital containing two wards of six beds each. A large crematorium was also built to incinerate the bodies of those who perished from the often fatal disease. In Wellington a similar hospital was constructed on MacAllister Park, Berhampore, much to the disgust of local residents who had challenged the plans in the Supreme Court, but lost. Over subsequent years plague hospitals were also built in Whanganui and Christchurch. Plague inspectors were appointed in major cities to inspect properties and order residents to clean up houses and sections which could harbour rats. Quarantine stations were also set up. Efforts were made to eradicate rats with the nation’s councils paying a bounty of around one to three pennies for each rat killed. On April 23, 1900 New Zealanders’ worst fears were confirmed when authorities reported that rats infected with the plague had been found on Auckland’s wharves. A week later a boy in the city was admitted to hospital with a suspected mild case of the disease – apparently contracted when he was bitten by a rat two weeks earlier. A week later it was determined that the boy did not, in fact, have the plague. Around the country, business people took the opportunity to advertise their herbal remedies and other wares as plague preventatives, including Wellington shoe merchants R Hannah and Co., who somewhat spuriously claimed the disease could be kept away by wearing of their locally manufactured “G boots and shoes”. Then on 22 June a man named Hugh Charles Kelly, 36, died at his house in Upper Queen Street, Auckland. Kelly was a married man with five young children and another on the way. Kelly’s doctor recorded his death as being due to bubonic plague. The Auckland City Council quarantined Kelly’s house and those of his children’s grandparents, Jose Perez (his wife Marion Mildred Kelly, nee Percy’s parents) and Kelly’s mother Sarah Boyd Harrison, while tests were made on his specimens taken from his body. Kelly’s family were kept in quarantine for 14 days. Three weeks after his death the official report came back with a finding that Kelly, a gum packer in the employ of Messrs Gorman and Newton, may or may not have died from the plague, or from blood poisoning. Kelly’s death was officially recorded as being due to plague. He is buried at Waikumete Cemetery. Meanwhile, the government passed a Bubonic Plague Prevention Act giving authorities widespread powers, including the ability to isolate and quarantine individuals and demolish buildings. Several more suspected cases were reported over subsequent years, but no epidemic followed. The plague scare eventually died down, despite outbreaks continuing in Australia and other countries. Then in March 1911, three people were admitted to hospital with the disease. The victims were a husband and wife who operated a fruit and confectionary business in Onehunga and one of their employees, David Fletcher, 26, who subsequently died. One of the nurses who cared for Fletcher also developed plague, but survived. A fifth case, a 17 year-old man who worked as a storeman at the Great Northern Brewery in Customs Street, and a sixth case, an 18 year-old man, who worked in Smith and Caughey’s warehouse also in Customs Street, were reported on March 30. April revealed no further cases, but on May 3, the seventh case appeared, a 20 year-old woman, quickly followed by the report of the eighth case, a 15 year-old lad employed as a gasfitter. Both also worked at Smith and Caughey’s warehouse. New Zealanders held their breaths for the expected onslaught of the plague epidemic – but it never came. Don’t, however, breathe too greater sigh of relief – according to the Ministry of Health both species of rodent flea capable of transmitting the plague bacteria are still present in New Zealand. The nine victims: (We think this is the only list naming the victims of the plague in NZ) 1901 22 June, Hugh Charles Kelly, 36, gum packer, Upper Queen Street, city 1902 29 April, Thomas Henry Virtue, 37, lumper (wharf worker), Richmond Rd, Grey Lynn 25 May, George Barraclough Bentley, 18, a kauri gum sorter, Grey Street, central city 4 July, Luke Edward Walker (known as Edward), 48, of Haydn Street, also a lumper on Auckland’s wharves 1904 Robert Stafford, 17, warehouse worker, Brunswick Lane, city 1907 12 May, Minnie Kitchen, 15, Tararua Tce, Parnell 15 May, Norma Isabell (Daisy) McMillan, 27, seamstress, Radford St, Parnell (Both worked in same building on Queen Street) 1910 22 July, Ernest Bridgeford, 18, packer at an electrical company near the wharves, Kingsland 1911 29 March, David Fletcher, 26, shopworker, Trafalgar St, Onehunga |
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