The only murder
that ever occurred in Grenfell that was recorded occurred in the 1900’s. One
summer 3 strangers appeared in town—three musicians and a scissor grinder. They
went from house to house, the musicians playing a few tunes trying to get
contributions (not very successfully) and the scissor grinder trying to sell his
trade.
The strangers
mysteriously left town in a hurry. A few weeks later the section gang was
working a couple of miles east of town when the noticed a swarm of flies
hovering over a pile of railway ties. An investigation uncovered the body
of the scissor grinder buried in a shallow grave hidden by the ties. He
was murdered by the two musicians when he refused to divide the money he had
gotten with them. The two musicians were caught and punished.
