Region: Wheatbelt
LGA: Tammin
Original name:
AKA: Wyola West
Industry: Railway and Farming
Coordinates: 31°39’05.7″S 117°14’13.8″E (to be confirmed)
What3Words: ///countering.roasting.perceptual
Population: 2021 – 0; 2016 – 23
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On 7 January 1908, a murder and suicide took place at Wyola. At the inquest into the two deaths, evidence was given that Bert Hart (22) had shot John McGuigan (late 30s) over a dispute into the loan of a horse. Hart, who had been drinking earlier in the day, then turn the shotgun upon himself1.
Not much else is know about Wyola at present, but watch this space for more news.
Sources
- TRAGEDY AT WYOLA. (1908, January 11). Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 – 1954), p. 16. Retrieved October 18, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37561355 ↩︎
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