I have been trawling through the old newspapers on line going back to the 1830s for family history research. I am forever getting distracted and find myself reading some of the incredible historical stories that I find and I feel obliged to reproduce them so that others can enjoy them too. (https://trove.nla.gov.au/)
Two series of articles providing a lengthy but very interesting look at the history of Pentridge as it was when written in 1893 and 1895, respectively.