Michael Adams
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Partially cooked by the time they got home, or at least warmed.
Yeah, they were doing pretty well.
And the cops got the power to actually search these dummy mines.
So they really clamped down and they were really successful.
So they set up this gold detection unit.
And by, I think they had six cops full time.
And within 15 years, they only needed two.
That's how successful they'd been.
But there were still guys stealing gold.
And there were these two veteran detectives, Detective Inspector John Walsh and Detective Sergeant Alexander Pittman.
And they had both been in the gold detection unit almost from the start.
They were veteran cops.
Between them, they had like 50 years experience and half of that was on the gold field.
So they knew what they were about.
They lived in little huts, like little cottages,
in the Goldfields, one in Kalgoorlie, one in Boulder.