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Federal Hotel, Fremantle

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On 8 February 1927 the hotel was the scene of a double murder, when Lillian Josephine Martin and her four-year-old son Daniel Charles were found dead in an upstairs bedroom of the building. Martin, her son and Jack Thomas had booked into the hotel under the name of Mr and Mrs Martin on 7 February.
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The three-storey hotel was designed by George Charles Inskip (1840-1931) and built by Jordine and Ruthven for James Herbert Junior (1841-1893). Herbert was the proprietor of the Rockingham Arms and the
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am by a house maid. Martin had been strangled and her son's throat had been cut. An extensive search was then undertaken by the police for Thomas, whose body was later found near the
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subsequently concluded that Thomas had committed both murders and then committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver.
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In August 1888 Herbert filed for bankruptcy and the receivers subsequently arranged for the property to be transferred to
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included it on their Municipal Inventory on 18 September 2000 and on their Heritage List on 8 March 2007.
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In January 2016 Rosie O'Grady's closed for business and the hotel was re-opened as the Federal Hotel.
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am the following day and the bodies of Martin and her son were discovered at 11:00
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Western Australian places listed on the defunct Register of the National Estate
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In 1989 the hotel was renamed to Rosie O'Grady's, an Irish themed
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On 21 October 1980 the building was included on the
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Victorian Free Classical
Fremantle
Coordinates
32°03′17″S 115°44′52″E / 32.0548°S 115.7479°E / -32.0548; 115.7479
http://www.federalhotelfreo.com.au/
Fremantle
Fremantle Town Hall
Freemasons Hotel
Melbourne
Western Australia
Edmund Blacket
St George's Cathedral, Perth
Union Bank in Albany
Union Bank
Fremantle
Roebourne
Geraldton
Alexander Forrest
John Forrest
Mends Street Jetty
South Perth
coroner
pub
Register of the National Estate
National Trust of Australia (WA)
City of Fremantle
"The Federal Hotel"
The Daily News
National Library of Australia

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