Outback Graves Markers

John WINTERS (more)

Cause of Death: Cerebral Tumour

John Winter, brought in from the Black Range to the Lawlers Hospital some six previously and died there on Tuesday 22nd September at about 2 pm. He had been prospecting at Black Range for about seven months. The funeral took place on Thursday afternoon, 24 September, the Rev. Father Drayne officiating. Winters was buried in Plot 20, Section A, north-east corner of the cemetery.

Joseph WRIGHT (more)

Cause of Death: Suicide by Shooting

The body of the deceased was found lying in a room at the rear of his shop in Clifton Street, with a bullet wound in the head.There was a breech-loading gun lying beside him, with a string attached from the trigger to the right foot. The right barrel contained an empty cartridge shell and the right barrel was empty. Arthur Albert Crooke, medical practitioner at Lawlers, examined the body of Joseph Wright at his premises in Clifton street and found that death had been instantaneous from a gunshot wound with the muzzle of the gun placed below his jaw, with his head bent forward nearly at right angles to his chest. The charge smashed the lower jaw in several places and then passed through the upper part of the spinal cord, at the junction of the spinal cord with the brain and into the cerebellum. Dr Crooke subsequently held a post mortem on the body at the morgue and found the heart and lungs, kidneys, stomach and spleen to be in an advanced state of disease. The doctor believed that the state he was in physically was liable to cause a very depressed state of mind and would be "apt to be worse at one time than another". Wright was one of the earliest settlers in Lawlers, and was said to have been of some means. He owned the shop he occupied in Clifton street and up to recently had been conducting an aerated water factory which he sold a few months previously. It was also stated that he owned some property in England. A will was discovered written on a page of one of his account books and dated November 21, 1910, but had not been witnessed. The deceased is buried in Plot 8 at Lawlers Cemetery.

Antonio ZAMPATTI (more)

Cause of Death: Appendicitis

Antonio had a brother named Barnardo, in Italy. Their friend, Giuseppe Ravotti, was appointed by the family's Italian notary, to represent them in the matter of finalising the estate of Antonio Zampatti. The deceased was buried in Plot 41, Section C, in the 6th row west.