FA Mitchell-Hedges 1929-

Hoaxes & Pranks: Monster Hunters

ADVENTURE! Thrilling Story Begins

The Mail (Adelaide, SA)
Date: January 18, 1930
Page Number: 1

Kill or be killed—this is the primitive emotion which rules life in the virgin wilds of Central America. In "The Mail" tonight begins a series of articles rich in thrills, colorful in story, and full of daring escapades and grim encounters with the monsters and myterious denizens of this dangerous interior.
Mr. Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges, the narrator, has had ten years of intensive exploration. With his companion, Lady Lilian Richmond Brown, he has met horrors that turn the blood cold. Read the first instalment tonight which tells of horrifying encounters with rivers of crocodiles.

F. A. Mitchell-Hedges part 12

People In The News.
Queensland Times (Ipswich) (Qld.)
Date: August 24, 1929
Page Number: 9

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JUNGLE QUEST—Mitchell Hedges, the explorer, who will lead an expedition into the jungles of Central America to trace the history of the Indians.

Monsters and Mysteries of Central American Virgin Wilds
Grim Life and Death Battles Between Daring Hunters and Fighting Crocs.

The Mail (Adelaide, SA)
Date: March 18, 1930
Page Number: 28

Monsters and Mysteries of Central American Virgin Wilds
Tropic Shark Savagery :: Caribbean Sea Mammoths

The Mail (Adelaide, SA)
Date: January 25, 1930
Page Number: 28

Monsters and Mysteries of Central American Virgin Wilds
Plunged Into a Wild, Barbaric Age with Superstitious Indians

The Mail (Adelaide, SA)
Date: February 1, 1930
Page Number: 24

Monsters and Mysteries of Central American Virgin Wilds
How White 'Deities' Fought Smallpox in the South American Jungle and Witnessed
Weird Rites of Medicine Men with Mummies and Eerie Incantations

The Mail (Adelaide, SA)
Date: February 8, 1930
Page Number: 28

Monsters and Mysteries of Central American Virgin Wilds
Beside the Brink of a Volcano; Analyses of Tropical Fauna; Indian Superstitions and Wedding Customs

The Mail (Adelaide, SA)
Date: February 15, 1930
Page Number: 24

Monsters and Mysteries of Central American Virgin Wilds
Fights to Death By Denizens of the Deep ; Monster Sawfish Tows Yacht for Miles

The Mail (Adelaide, SA)
Date: February 22, 1930
Page Number: 24

Northern Star (Lismore, NSW)
Date: March 31, 1930
Page Number: 7

F. A Mitchell-Hedges, British explorer, has announced that he intends to go to Central America and dig up secrets of the mysterious Lost World. He will penetrate the jungle inland from Trujillo, Nicaragua, in search of hidden Mayan cities, rumoured animals of prehistoric type, primitive tribes that live like beasts, and lost towns founded by early Spanish explorers. Lady Richmond Brown, woman explorer, will accompany the expedition.

BARONET DIVORCED
EXPLORER AS CO-RESPONDENT
SOCIETY SENSATION

The Daily News (Perth, WA)
Date: November 12, 1930
Page Number: 5

LONDON, November 11.
     With costs against the co-respondent, Mr. Justice Bateson granted Sir Melville Richmond Brown a decree nisi on the grounds of the adultery of Lady Richmond Brown with Mr. F. A. Mitchell Hedges, the explorer and author, a mysterious at tack upon whom at Ripley, by six young Liberals, created a sensation in January, 1927.
     The Court dismissed Lady Brown's cross-petition for a divorce amended from a judicial separation.
     Neither Lady Brown nor Mr. Mitchell-Hedges gave evidence.
     Sir Melville's affairs have been controlled by the Master in Lunacy since 1910. The Browns were married in 1906, but the marriage was childless. Mr. Mitchell-Hedges and Lady Brown were as sociated in world-wide exploration tours, and the allegations of adultery ranged from 1921 to 1930.
     Sir Melville will make an allowance to Lady Brown.
     (Sir Melville Richmond Brown is the third baronet and is 64 years of age. He married Lilian Mabel Roussel, of Guernsey, Channel Islands, in 1906. Lady Brown travelled extensively in South America with Mr. Mitchell-Hedges,
1921-22. They explored the San Blas archipelago; penetrated unknown parts of Panama, and discovered the Chucunague Indians, and on their return made a presentation of a large collection to the British Museum. Lady Brown also carried out deep-sea research in the Caribbean Sea. Mr. Mitchell-Hedges has devoted his life, to exploration and deep sea research. In 1924, with Dr. T. W. F. Gann, he discovered in the interior of British Honduras a vast ruin of a Maya city, and the following year he conducted an expedition for excavation of the city.)

Northern Star (Lismore, NSW)
Date: February 12, 1931
Page Number: 4

The World's News (Sydney, NSW)
Date: October 28, 1931
Page Number: 26

The West Australian (Perth, WA)
Date: December 12, 1931
Page Number: 4

Cairns Post (Qld.)
Date: January 13, 1933
Page Number: 10

Kalgoorlie Miner (WA)
Date: January 31, 1933
Page Number: 5

The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld.)
Date: May 10, 1934
Page Number: 7

Mitchell-Hedges' "record" claims are no longer acknowledged.