Cudgera Mystery.
Houses bombarded.
Stones thrown from hills.
Mystery surrounds the throwing of large stones on to the roofs of two houses at Cudgera, on the Tweed – it has been going on for over a week and, despite intense scouting operations by the occupants of the houses and neighbors, the perpetrator has not been discovered.
The houses concerned are those of Mr F.C. Quinn and Mr E. McEacheran, and the bombardments invariably begin about dusk each evening. The dwellings are situated in hilly country, and it is from the high lands that the stones come hurling down through the darkness to crash on to the iron roofs.
The whole affair suggests a vendetta, and this theory is strengthened by the report that a letter was received through the post, allegedly threatening to hunt the Quinn family out of Cudgera. Murwillumbah police, it is understood, are taking the matter up.
The case recalls a somewhat similar occurrence at Uki, about nine years ago, when an empty house was the target for stones hurled nightly by some person unknown. The perpetrator was never discovered, but eventually the scare fizzled out.
Another similar case, which occurred at Guyra, gained wide publicity some years ago.
A recent case in a suburb of Sydney was noteworthy, in that one of the men who had been watching the house for the apprehension of the stone-thrower, was himself arrested and charged. The aid of the police had been invoked, and a constable on duty in the scrub adjoining the house actually saw the watcher mentioned pick up a stone and hurl it at the house.
Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser (NSW), 1st February 1930.