On this day: What was making headlines in Warwick on May 27 over 100+ years
The Daily News has long been chronicling the happenings of the Rose City. Today, the team turned back the clock to reveal the strange and often shocking events making headlines across the years on May 27.
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Since its origins more than 150 years ago, the Daily News has covered and archived the daily happenings of Warwick and its community.
A dig through the archives has revealed the events making the local news on this day across the decades, highlighting how much and also how little the Rose City has changed over the course of more than 100 years.
Here’s what was making headlines at the Daily News on May 27, from over a century ago to now.
1920
Warwick court proceedings were of as much interest to the community in 1920 as they are today, with a full wrap of District Court proceedings featuring in the Daily News that day.
Two men were charged with having stolen a purse containing about £12 and a number of other “sundry” small articles from a woman in Stanthorpe.
Another Toowoomba man was launching a civil case against the then-lessee of the Railway Hotel at Tannymorel, after claiming he was never paid for painting and repairs he completed at the pub.
There were plenty of legal matters to go around this District Court sittings, with another three Warwick residents or businesses suing for about £30 each for goods sold and delivered without payment.
Other news that day included another successful Warwick Picnic Races event and a fundraiser by the Warwick Poultry and Kennel Club.
1940
Rose City residents were in for slightly gorier news on May 27, 1940, with an unfortunate chaff-cutting accident making headlines.
Mill Hill man Ronald Andersen, 18, lost his right middle finger when his hand became caught in the knives of a chaffcutter he was using.
He was treated at the scene before being rushed to Warwick Hospital.
A heavy frost sweeping through the Warwick district also made the papers that day.
Described as the “severest visitation so far” that year, the Daily News reported frost was visible in several sheltered locations later than 9am.
National and international headlines focused on battles being fought during World War II and related resource or trade concerns.
1953
Three Warwick residents were thrown from their vehicle and injured when their sulky collided with a car at the intersection of Wood and Wantley Streets.
Sixty-nine-year-old Francis Hill, his wife Eva Hill, and their grandson Anthony Woodford were treated at Warwick Hospital for multiple lacerations and shock following the incident.
Their horse bolted from the scene after the crash, but eventually found its way home without injury. The Wheatvale resident driving the car was also unhurt.
Another story making headlines that day was a Palmerin Street cafe owner being fined £5 for selling a cone of ice cream for 5 pennies, which was 1 penny above the maximum price fixed by the Profiteering Preventions Act.
A Stanthorpe man was also fined a much heftier £75 after he was caught drink driving on Maryland Street, only hours after he’d been treated in hospital for alcohol poisoning.
2009
Rugby league young gun Ryan Kinlyside headed up the sports section on this day in 2009 when his impressive on-field efforts earned him the chance to compete for a spot in the U18 Australian Open Schoolboys team.
The then-17-year-old Warwick Cowboys prop had six weeks to prepare for the all-important selection, but said he was unfazed by the pressure of making the cut.
“I just want to play good football, hopefully make something out of it and get somewhere with it,” the teen told the Daily News at the time.
After taking a two-year break from the sport, the Warwick talent returned to his home side before going on to play the Mackay Cutters in the Intrust Super Cup.
2017
When Warwick man Vincent O’Dempsey was found guilty of the murders of Barbara McCulkin and her two daughters Vicki, 13, and Leanne, 11, it was front-page news across the state.
The jury came to their final verdict in little more than a day following the 78-year-old’s trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court in May, 2017.
O’Dempsey and his accomplice Garry Reginald “Shorty’ Dubois lured the mother and her two children from their Highgate Hill home one evening in January, 1974.
O’Dempsey was found guilty of three counts of murder and one count of deprivation of liberty.
Dubois was convicted of raping and murdering the two girls and the manslaughter of their mother.
Both men were sentenced to life behind bars with no eligibility for parole.
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