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On the outskirts of the quiet Queensland town of Gayndah, about four hours north-wt of Brisbane, stands a stone monument embossed wh the name Anna Kathera Krieger.
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"It's a sad story and 's one that's trigued always, " said Gayndah and District Historil Society print, Cynthia crimeIn the early afternoon of March 20, 1859 Krieger was walkg to the town of Gayndah along Old Mundubbera Road when she than a week later her body was found by passg drovers, about 4. 7 kilometr outsi Gayndah, on April 1.
(Supplied: Tom F Hampstead, thor of A life cut short: the story of Anna Kathera Krieger and the early days of the Krieger fay Gayndah)The victimKrieger was born Nothfeln, Germany on July 4, 1836 and emigrated to Queensland wh her hband time Atralia was arrivg Brisbane's Moreton Bay aboard the ship Ple, she lived on Brovia Statn near Bundaberg wh her hband and parents, before movg alone a few towns away to Gayndah to learn drsmakg on Febary 23, has been suggted she was leavg her hband as she may have tried to do once then got a job at Mount Debatable sheep statn workg as a hoemaid on March 13, 1859 jt one week before she was killed.
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A photo of the origal Brovia Homtead, taken om the book A life cut short: the story of Anna Kathera Krieger and the early days of the Krieger fay Gayndah. (Supplied: Tom F Hampstead)The spectsThe hband: Krieger was married to Frerick Lueckel before emigratg to had left him once for a few days earlier 1859, but he had brought her back home to Brovia told police he last saw his wife on Febary 23 when she left Brovia for Gayndah to learn Berthelsen said others who had rearched the se found suggtns her hband had been abive. "The traveller: William Reichnacker had stopped at Brovia Statn for about a day and a half sometime the month before Krieger had left for Gayndah.
A bootmaker Gayndah is also reported to have told the urt he met wh Mr Reichnacker and he spoke "disparaggly" of Krieger.
"I thk would still be advisable to send an experienced officer to Gayndah to enavour to disver if possible the perpetrator of this most foul murr, and also to track and disver the man Reichnacker, " the attorney-general wrote Augt 1859. Gayndah Historil Society print Cynthia Berthelsen says Krieger's parents ntued to live the town after the murr.
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(ABC Wi Bay: Js Lodge)The quiryMs Berthelsen said the vtigatn Krieger's murr had been "very lackadaisil" April 1859, a magisterial quiry was held to terme why more had not been done to fd her Berthelsen said at the time of her ath Gayndah was a small town wh a populatn of about 600, and wh a number of Che and German immigrants there was a clear racial divi.
A few years later, June 1861, Gayndah's police magistrate wrote to the lonial secretary Brisbane regardg the failure of the lol police regardg the vtigatn to Krieger's murr.
"The moursKrieger left behd no children, but her parents and sister stayed Gayndah and their direct scendants still live the town. A poem taken om the book A life cut short: the story of Anna Kathera Krieger and the early days of the Krieger fay Gayndah.