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Australian Hauntings Portal / Re: The Haunted Hair Saloon: Warrawong: NSW
« Last post by KANACKI on January 16, 2024, 03:11:26 PM »
It should be noted the site where this haunting occurred is no longer a Hair salon. The exact location is kept secret to foe people to pester the present shop owners.

Kanacki
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Australian Hauntings Portal / Re: The Haunted Hair Saloon: Warrawong: NSW
« Last post by KANACKI on January 02, 2024, 08:01:48 PM »
An excerpt for the news paper states

 From inquiries made in various quarters, we have gleaned the following details : — 'On 'Tuesday, the old lady was at O'Donnells, and commissioned' David Carney (a youth in the employ of Mr. O'Donnell) to get her sundry articles in town. These were a 5 cwt; of flour and a box of cartridges, he having promised to do some shooting for her. She gave him half-a-sovereign, and he returned her the two shillings and sixpence change later on.

Carney avers that on the purse being opened he distinctly saw about ten 'shillings in large silver in one pocket, and as she opened the second pocket to get the  half sovereign and noticed a couple of Sovereigns.



Was this David Carney a suspect?


There was answered questions with her son? Why did she leave her sons home 9 months earlier? He strange enough knew where his mother kept her money in the Following excerpt below.

The son states his mother usually put the purse at night in a little satchel at the head of the bed, where she also kept her rosary beads.


 Mrs,. O'Donnell who had an' Intimate knowledge of the unfortunate women transactions surmises that ?

She must have been in possession of three or about 4 pounds, Which she had generally carried about  in her in the purse  Thus, it will be seen, we have fairly strong proof of the murdered woman having had money in her possession on the day pf the murder.

Senior-sergt. Banks searched the place, on Thursday night,

He found the purse, on the top ? shelf of the little dresser, empty. Search for the key. of the tin trunk was rewarded by finding it (with string attached) hidden between the corrugation of a sheet of iron and a batten, near the foot of the bed. Ail the money found I in the box was a three penny piece
 


Clearly the motive was murder?

But who was the guilty party?

New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Coroners' Inquests, 1821-1937 for Winifred Mannion in final statement  in picture below.

Death by blow to the head murder by person or person unknown.

Did the spirit of Winifred Mannion manifest itself in a shopping center hair dresser a century later? If so what triggered the haunting?


MIND CANDY INDEED!


Kanacki

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Australian Hauntings Portal / Re: The Haunted Hair Saloon: Warrawong: NSW
« Last post by KANACKI on January 02, 2024, 07:30:35 PM »
It appears  Mannion  Winifred Mannionwas murdered for a few sovereigns she had

Her hut  was about 1/50 yards to the south east of the residence of Mr. F. O'Donnell (Mayor of Central Illawarra and lessee to the estate). The murdered woman was an old retainer of the family of Mrs. O'Donnell, and great was her delight, some nine months ago, when she was permitted by Mr. O'Donnell to erect on the estate, and within hail of the O'Donnell household, the hut in which she hoped to spend the declining years of her life.

The walls and roof of the building, which is 9ft 6in by 7ft 6in, are of corrugated ,-iron, with a door in the northern end (facing O'Donnell's), where the chimney is also placed, and at the back a wooden shutter on hinges, and fastened by means of two nails, did duty as a window. The old lady succeeded in making the interior fairly snug. A single bed was placed along the southern wall under the window, and from a cross-beam (about four feet from that end of the dwelling) were suspended cretonne curtains, which divided off, as it were, the sleeping portion of the hut. In the hut there were also an improvised table, a little dresser, a large tin trunk, and household utensils.

to be continued,,,,

Kanacki
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Australian Hauntings Portal / Re: The Haunted Hair Saloon: Warrawong: NSW
« Last post by KANACKI on January 02, 2024, 04:09:05 PM »
Here is more information

Michael O'Donnell and his wife arrived in Sydney from Ireland in 1841. He became teacher-in-charge of the Wollongong Roman Catholic Denominational School in 1842. In 1843-1844 O'Donnell and a fellow school teacher undertook the management of Wentworth's 'Five Islands Estate'. In 1853 O'Donnell leased the Estate from Wentworth with a proviso that he would clear 500 acres of the land. Evidence suggests that the O'Donnell family still held a lease with Wentworth in 1900. The O'Donnell's farm house was built not on 'Five Islands Estate' but on 'Berkeley Estate' (Reynolds, 2001).

The land for the 'Steeltown Estate' was probably purchased from the O'Donnell family. The subdivision extended from the southern side of Five Islands Road to just north of Fitzgerald's homestead. The southern extent of the subdivision is midway between Cringila Street and Fitzgerald Street. It is presumed that this was the boundary between the O'Donnell family's property and Fitzgerald's property (Reynolds, 2001).

To continued.....


Kanacki
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Australian Hauntings Portal / Re: The Haunted Hair Saloon: Warrawong: NSW
« Last post by KANACKI on January 02, 2024, 03:50:30 PM »
Here is more pages of the article.

To be continued.....


Kanacki
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Australian Hauntings Portal / Re: The Haunted Hair Saloon: Warrawong: NSW
« Last post by KANACKI on January 02, 2024, 03:48:09 PM »
Here is pictures of the South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus (NSW : 1900 - 1954), Saturday 10 May 1902 that gave more information of the story?

for those guests who cannot see the pictures I suggest joining the forum.

To be continued.

Kanacki
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Australian Hauntings Portal / Re: The Haunted Hair Saloon: Warrawong: NSW
« Last post by KANACKI on January 02, 2024, 03:39:48 PM »
There was more details of the murder and hut where the murder took place. her is rough plan of the location of the murder.


to be continued......


Kanacaki
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Australian Hauntings Portal / Re: The Haunted Hair Saloon: Warrawong: NSW
« Last post by KANACKI on January 02, 2024, 03:32:05 PM »
The South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus (NSW : 1900 - 1954), Saturday 3 May 1902, page 1 told the following story.

A TERRIBLE 0UTRA6E.

MURDER AT FIVE ISLANDS. MYSTERIOUS SURROUNDINGS, .

A dastardly outrage was perpetrated on the Five Islands Estate, Lake Iliawarra, on Wednesday night. Near Mr. j Frank O'Donnell's lived an old woman named Winifred Mannion, aged about 76, and an old age pensioner. She had been an old. servant with Mrs. O'Donnell's family, and after living for some time with her married son at Port Kembla, she asked and obtained permission to have a hut erected for herself?

Winifred Mannion had a habit of regularly going over to O'Donnell's for milk, but on Thursday she failed to put in an appearance. Thinking tlere was something the matter, Mr. F. O'Donnell went over to the hut (the door of which was open) and found the old Woman lying in bed unconscious, with a fearful wound across the forehead. From appearances the blow was dealt with a blunt instrument, and the only motive ? that can be assigned for the foul deed is that the perpretrator was after  what money she had (if any). Nothing in the hut seemed to be disturbed The unfortunate woman was conveyed to the hospital and is still unconscious, and it is feared she will not recover.

The police are Out and a black tracker is on the scene, but the recent rains will make it very difficult to pick up tracks.

This spot was the very spot where a shopping center was later built and a hair dressing saloon was on the very spot where this murder in 1902 took place?

It was not a aboriginal family murdered. But an elderly women bashed and left to die in her hut. Was it her malice left seeking some redemption that was perhaps behind the haunting's at the hair Saloon?

to be continued.....


Kanacki

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Australian Hauntings Portal / Re: The Haunted Hair Saloon: Warrawong: NSW
« Last post by KANACKI on January 02, 2024, 03:15:21 PM »
The Wentworth Family had a long association with the Warrawong / Port Kembla area. William Charles Wentworth I purchased Illawarra Farm, later known as Five Islands Estate, from Richard Jones. He died in 1876 and left the property to his son D'Arcy Bland Wentworth. D'Arcy Bland died without heirs and his nephew, William Charles Wentworth III, inherited the Five Islands Estate.

W C Wentworth III sold some of the land to Australian Iron and Steel to enable them to move from Lithgow to Port Kembla, and some to a group of Sydney businessmen called 'Heart of Kembla'. The Wall Street crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression meant that Heart of Kembla became bankrupt, and as the land had not been paid for it reverted to W C Wentworth III (Lawson, 1991).

In 1935, W C Wentworth IV began to develop parcels of land from his estate for sale. He granted four acres of land for a new school at Steeltown (Warrawong) and built a new Kembla Estate hall at Port Kembla (South Coast Times & Illawarra Mercury).

When the land at Warrawong was subdivided, the Wentworths would not allow inferior structures to be built in case they developed into slums. The subdivisions included unusual features for the time such as wide streets, kerbing and guttering, and underground drainage, as well as recreational areas and parklands (South Coast Times, 30 August 1935).

Although the Wentworth family owned the Kembla Estate for over 100 years, they did not live in the district for any length of time. The land was leased or managed through a family trust.

Was this entity from an aboriginal family allegedly murdered in this time?

To be continued.....

Kanacki
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Australian Hauntings Portal / Re: The Haunted Hair Saloon: Warrawong: NSW
« Last post by KANACKI on January 02, 2024, 03:03:48 PM »
Allan was Deputy Commissary-General of the colony from 1813 to 1819. He carried on his grazing interests on his 'Illawarra Farm' of which 600 acres were cleared. Produce from the farm was sold to the Government Stores. Allan left the colony in 1822 and he leased the farm "with good cottage and office" (Sydney Gazette, 22 June 1824).

In 1827 the property was sold to Richard Jones, who later sold it to William Charles Wentworth and it came to be known as 'The Five Islands Estate'. Wentworth died in 1876. leaving the property to his son D'Arcy Bland Wentworth.

In 1899, 500 acres of the land was resumed for the Port Kembla Harbour and a further 1470 acres was resumed in 1913 (Herben, 2000).

Was this alleged indigenous family murdered there in this period?


Kanacki
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