Louis John Laundess [2282] ²

   FamilySearch ID: LJVC-YRP.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Newspaper: ACCIDENTALLY SHOT, 1927 Jan 24, New South Wales, Australia. ⁴ ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. (1927, January 24). The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser (NSW : 1876 - 1948), p. 2. Retrieved December 20, 2013, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115898929>

ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
A young man named Lou Laundess
had a very narrow escape from death
yesterday, when a bullet from a rifle
he was carrying lodged within four
inches of the heart. We understand
the lad was getting on his horse hold-
ing the loaded rifle and an axe, when
by some chance the rifle received a
knock discharging the cartridge. On
enquiry' this, morning we learn the
patient is not in a dangerous condi-
tion.

• Electoral Roll: Yarra, 1931, Victoria, Australia. ⁵

• Electoral Roll: Calare, 1937 To 1963, New South Wales, Australia. ⁵

• Newspaper: POLICE COURT, 1940 Jul 4, Grenfell District, New South Wales, Australia. ⁶ POLICE COURT. (1940, July 4). The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser (NSW : 1876 - 1948), p. 2. Retrieved December 27, 2013, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117763319>

Louis J. Laundess-failing to return
expired driver's license.
Heard ex parte.
Fined 5/, costs 8/7

• Newspaper: Probate Notice, 1940 Jul 4, Melbourne, , Victoria, Australia. ⁷ Advertising. (1940, July 4). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), p. 10. Retrieved November 23, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11318678>
AFTER fourteen clear days from the publication hereof application will be made to the Supreme Court of Victoria, in Its Probate Juris- diction, that PROBATE of the WILL, bearing date the third day of June 1940, of ROBERT JOHN WHITTLE, late of 35 Marion street. Fitzroy, municipal laborer, deceased, may be granted to Nora Cerina Laundess, married woman, and Louis John Laundess, farm laborer both of "Cambe- warra." Grenfell, New South Wales, the executors named therein.
COLE & O'HEARE. City Mutual Buildings. 465 Collins street. Melbourne, solicitors for the applicants.

• Newspaper: LOCAL AND GENERAL, 1943 Oct 18, New South Wales, Australia. ⁸ LOCAL AND GENERAL. (1943, October 18). The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser (NSW : 1876 - 1948), p. 2. Retrieved December 20, 2013, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117774887>

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Mr. Lou Laundess spending a few
days in town'97 from Albury

• Newspaper: WEDDIN SHIRE COUNCIL, 1944 Jun 15, Grenfell District, New South Wales, Australia. ⁹ WEDDIN SHIRE COUNCIL. (1944, June 15). The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser (NSW : 1876 - 1948), p. 1. Retrieved January 2, 2014, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115921522>

…
Contract 7/194.4: Tender of L. J.
Laundess in the sum of £500/7/1
for the supply of 2555 c. yards of
gravel on the Goolagong M.R.
…
Contract 9/1944: Tender of L. J.
Laundess in the sum of £808/10/
for the supply of 3906 c yards of
gravel on the Morangorell M.R.

• Witness: Lavers Murder Charge, 1946 Nov 6, Grenfell, Monteagle County, New South Wales, Australia. The Canberra Times

EVIDENCE IN LAVERS MURDER CHARGE

GRENFELL, Tuesday.

Four witnesses gave evidence when the hearing of the Lavers murder case resumed tooday,

Frederick Lincoln McDerhiot. 38, labourer, is charged with the mur- der of William Lavera, who disap- peared from Grenfell on September 5, 1936. No tfce of the body has ever been found.

Detective-Sergeant Leslie William Moore said he examined the pump, the handle and fitting inside and out- side the store, and all oil bottles, but failed to find fingerprints of value. Mrs. Lavers had given him a hair- brush, from which he took a quantity of hair. It was apparently from two persons. - -

A report of a micro-biologist was that all the blood samples were of human blood, and that one of the two types of hair found in the hair-brush resembled the hair found on the pump handle.

William John Cohen, farmer of Griffith, said that in August, 1936, he was a shearer at a station near Condobolin when his son Ken arri- ved with Frederick Munro. Cohen indicated McDermot in the dock as Munro.

Cohen said it was arranged that he should pick up Munro (McDer- mot) a few days later to take him to a shed 26 miles from Gundagai. Munro did not keep the appointment or arrive at the shed while he (Cohen) was there.

Lewis John Laundess, of Grenfell, said in July or August, 1935, he met a man named Preston who had an old Essex tourer.

About a month later he heard of Laver's disappearance. He saw Preston in Grenfell, but not with his car.

John Frederick" Parker, also known as Preston, shearer, now a boot re- pairer at CuffST, said that in 1936 he was living at Forbes' with his sister. Mrs. Williams.

• Newspaper: LEAVING CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION, 1947 Jan 16, Grenfell District, New South Wales, Australia. ¹⁰ LEAVING CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION. (1947, January 16).The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser (NSW : 1876 - 1948), p. 2. Retrieved December 27, 2013, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115924328>

LAVERS MURDER
SPECIAL TRIAL AT
BATHURST.


A Crown Law officer stated that
the proclaiming of a special court
at Bathurst would bring the trial
forward by at least a month.
- The following witnesses from
Grenfell will give evidence: A. F.

Thomas, L. J. Laundess,, K. F.

• Newspaper: View on 1936 Lavers case "Certain" murder sentence wrong, 1951 Jun 16, Brisbane, , Queensland, Australia. ¹¹ View on 1936 Lavers case "Certain" murder sentence wrong. (1951, June 16). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved January 9, 2014, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50087368>

View on 1936 Lavers case
"Certain" murder
sentence wrong


Louis Laundess, a Grenfell
carrier, said to-night it could
not have been Preston's car
which McDermott was supposed
to be driving.
He said that he had told
police of the colour of a car
owned by Preston, but that he
now realised that his interpre-
tation of the colour was dif-
ferent to the police interpreta-
tion of the colour.
The Public Solicitor (Mr. R.
W. Hawkins) is continuing his
investigations into aspects of
the McDermott conviction. He
is confident that McDermott's
innocence will be established.

• Newspaper: Social and Personal, 1951 Sep 6, New South Wales, Australia. ¹² Social and Personal. (1951, September 6). The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser (NSW : 1876 - 1948), p. 2. Retrieved December 20, 2013, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113426153>

…
The following Grenfell people
were noticed visiting Young Show
yesterday: …Mr.
Lou Laundess, Miss Enid Hughes,

• Newspaper: Evidence on car at inquiry, 1951 Oct 10, Melbourne, , Victoria, Australia. ¹³ Evidence on car at inquiry. (1951, October 10). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), p. 5. Retrieved November 23, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23085011>
Evidence on car at inquiry
Sydney, Tuesday
Witnesses before the McDermott Royal Commis- sion today traced the history of an Essex car from its ship-ment to Sydney in 1924 to its sale in 1934 for £20.
Mr. Justice Kinsella, Royal Commissioner, is inquiring into the conviction of Frede- rick Lincoln McDermott for the murder in 1936 of Wil- liam Henry Lavers.
The car whose history wit- nesses traced today was al-legedly outside Lavers' store when he disappeared on Sep-tember 5, 1936.
Louis John Laundess, share farmer, of Grenfell, said that in 1935 and 1936 he had ridden in the car referred to, which was a "browny sort of shade."
He said that if he had told police before McDermott's trial that the car had been a blue color, he was "defin-itely wrong."

• Newspaper: CONVICTION OF MAN FOR MURDER, 1951 Oct 10, Cairns, , Queensland, Australia. ¹⁴ CONVICTION OF MAN FOR MURDER. (1951, October 10). Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved November 23, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42717558>
CONVICTION OF MAN FOR MURDER
COMMISSION OF INQUIRY
EVIDENCE RESUMED.
SYDNEY, Oct. 9. - The colour of a car allegedly used in the murder of William Henry Lavers, near Grenfell in 1936 was the subject of nearly four and a half hours' evidence and cross-exam- ination before a Royal Commis- sion to-day.
The Royal Commission is into the conviction in 1947 of Frederick Lincoln McDermott for the mur- der of Lavers.
McDermott is now serving a life sentence in Goulburn gaol. Louis John Laundess, contractor and share farmer, of Grenfell, told the Commission to-day that when he described a car as slate-col- oured to the police he did not mean the car was blue-grey.
Mr. Shand, K.C. (for McDer- mott) handed Laundess a piece of stone, light brown in colour.
Laundess said that that was the colour he had in mind when he made his statement to the police.
Laundess told Mr. Shand that a few days before Lavers had dis- appeared he and Parker had left Grenfell. He had returned about three days after Lavers' disap-pearance. In a written state- ment to the police he had de- scribed Parker's car as slate coloured.
To Mr. A. J. Coran (for the Crown) Laundess said that if he had signed a statement which said that he described Parker's car as blue slate that part of the statement was definitely wrong.
The hearing was adjourned until to-morrow.

• Newspaper: Advertising, 1951 Nov 22, New South Wales, Australia. ¹⁵ Advertising. (1951, November 22). The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser (NSW : 1876 - 1948), p. 1. Retrieved December 20, 2013, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113433216>

WANTED
GENERAL CARRYING
FROM GRENFELL TO ANY-
WHERE.
LOU LAUNDESS,
Phone 63.

• Law Notices: Bankruptcy, 1954 Jun 3, Sydney, Cumberland County, New South Wales, Australia. ¹⁶ LAW COURT NOTICES FOR TO-DAY. (1954, June 3). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842-1954), p. 6. Retrieved March 17, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18427265>

BANKRUPTCY COURT 110 PHILLIP STREET

ex parte Deputy Commissioner of Taxation: re Louis John Laundess,

• Electoral Roll: Hume, 1980, New South Wales, Australia. ⁵

Louis married Nora Cerina Lewis [2283] [LJKT-3J9] [MRIN: 678], daughter of Thomas Lewis [33830] [LJKT-Q3V] and Myrtle Edith [33831] [LJKT-3GF], on 1928 Dec 26 in Grenfell, Monteagle County, New South Wales, Australia.¹ (Nora Cerina Lewis [2283] [LJKT-3J9] was born about 1910 in Richmond, , Victoria, Australia ² and died in 1957 in Grenfell, Monteagle County, New South Wales, Australia.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Registration: Marriage, 1929, Grenfell District, New South Wales, Australia. ¹⁷

  Marriage Notes:

Holy trinity church ¹⁸