Here is a news article: Mr. Laurie admitted to having a bad temper, but he denied any involvement, turning the court’s attention back to where Mr. Moriarty was last seen: The Pink Panther. 
  
 Mr. Simpson no longer works at the pub. Mr. Sharpe said he was fired a week before the coroner’s inquest — a few days before I arrived to find his room there a mess of dirty clothes and empty beer cans. 
  
 He appeared to have moved on and has since been replaced by someone else, keeping Larrimah’s population steady at 11. It used to be 12. 
  
 Around the bar, patrons still talk about Mr. Moriarty’s disappearance. 
  
 “Church” on Sundays has resumed, but without the charm Mr. Moriarty used to bring to it. Because he had no family in Australia, the public trustee now controls his property. To keep an eye on anything that might look suspicious, his home has been fitted with security cameras, and it’s flanked by a large missing person sign. 
  
 It includes a picture of Mr. Moriarty, smiling, with a question many in town are still asking: “What happened to Paddy?” ||||| Paddy Moriarty inquest: Larrimah local told 'don't do anything stupid' after argument 
  
 Updated 
  
 Fran Hodgetts, owner of the Larrimah tea house, has told an inquest into the disappearance of Paddy Moriarty that she told a companion "not to do anything stupid" after he had an argument with Mr Moriarty days before his disappearance. 
  
 Mr Moriarty, 70, was last seen leaving the local pub on December 16, 2017. 
  
 Yesterday, an inquest into his suspected death heard Mr Moriarty was a happy-go-lucky man but he had an ongoing dispute with Ms Hodgetts, whose tea house was across from Mr Moriarty's property on the Stuart Highway. 
  
 Witnesses told yesterday's hearing the pair detested each other, and would frequently hurl abuse at one another. 
  
 On Friday she told the inquest the pair had been "neighbourly", but things turned sour when Mr Moriarty stole her sun umbrella in 2010, although police did not find evidence that this happened. 
  
 'He was angry' 
  
 Ms Hodgetts said Mr Moriarty then began to scare her customers away from the tea house. 
  
 "He started abusing my customers, threatening tourists and scaring them away from [my] business," she said. 
  
 Ms Hodgetts testified that "she'd been to hell and back" over the next 10 years, with a series of accusations of property damage and theft. 
  
 "I've never abused him and I've done nothing for what he did to me… Years ago I went crook at him, once," she said. 
  
 Four days before Mr Moriarty's disappearance, Ms Hodgetts accused him of dragging a dead kangaroo over to her property, but denied she retaliated. 
  
 "I swear to god, I never, I couldn't move a kangaroo," she said. 
  
 The following day, the inquest heard her companion, Owen Laurie, got into an argument with Mr Moriarty over their dogs. 
  
 "I told him 'don't do anything stupid'," Ms Hodgetts told the inquest. 
  
 "Yeah he was angry, because of the things that have happened in the past." 
  
 She told the court Mr Laurie had said "there's going to be trouble" on the day of the argument about the dogs. 
  
 "And I said, 'don't do anything stupid … I don't want to come back and see you in jail'," she said. 
  
 Mr Laurie has denied the argument was aggressive on either side and described Ms Hodgetts' account as "embellishment". 
  
 "I wasn't angry or aggressive about it," he told the inquest. 
  
 Mr Laurie told the inquest he was joking when had earlier told Ms Hodgetts "if anyone touches my plants, it'll be the first murder in Larrimah". 
  
 "I had no intention of murdering anyone over a garden," he told coroner Greg Cavanagh. 
  
 "People have been murdered for a lot less, sir," Mr Cavanagh said. 
  
 Mr Moriarty was last seen on his quad bike, leaving the Pink Panther about 6:00pm, and half an hour later Mr Laurie made two phone calls from a public phone box, the inquest heard. 
  
 Counsel assisting the coroner, Kelvin Currie, suggested to Mr Laurie that must have seen Mr Moriarty on his quad bike from the phone box, but Mr Laurie denied he saw him. 
  
 Ms Hodgetts broke down in the witness box when denying she was lying about her testimony, and said neither she nor Mr Laurie knew anything about Mr Moriarty's disappearance. 
  
 The inquest was told Mr Moriarty was a creature of habit, and when he did not turn up at the pub one day, and his home appeared as though he had never left it, virtually everybody in the community thought something was amiss. 
  
 An extensive search has failed to uncover any sign of Mr Moriarty's whereabouts, or that of his dog. 
  
 Almost the entire population of Larrimah, which has around 12 residents, were called as witnesses at the inquest. 
  
 The inquest was due to finish on Friday but has now been adjourned to a later date. 
  
 Topics: missing-person, community-and-society, police, law-crime-and-justice, katherine-0850 
  
 First posted ||||| Paddy Moriarty vanished in December from Larrimah. Now the tiny town’s sharp divisions are in the nation’s spotlight 
  
 It was an appallingly hot October day in 2016 when I stood in Larrimah’s small bush cemetery with Paddy Moriarty. The temperature was stretching for 40C and the flies were inexhaustible. I was marinating in my sweat as Paddy and his mate of 15 years, Barry Sharpe, erected a tombstone on the grave of another friend, the writer Andrew McMillan. There were just four graves there then: Andrew’s, a couple of station owners and an Overland Telegraph worker who died in 1899. None of us could have known that Paddy’s grave would be the next to join them. That is, it will be if his body is ever found. 
  
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 Paddy, a 70-year-old smiley moustachioed fellow, disappeared from the red dusty no-horse town of Larrimah in the Northern Territory on 16 December 2017. That day he’d been drinking at the Pink Panther hotel before heading home for dinner. Police say his house was in order, the date crossed off the calendar, his bed made and his dinner on the table ready to be heated up. His signature hat, which he was never without, was on the table, alongside his keycard and his reading glasses. His kelpie cross Kellie is also missing. 
  
 Detective Sergeant Matt Allen, who is in charge of the case, says extensive land and air searches of the area have uncovered nothing, the timeframe for survival has expired and Paddy’s disappearance is being treated as suspicious. 
  
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Paddy Moriarty and Barry Sharpe at the grave of writer Andrew McMillan at a little bush cemetery in Larrimah. Photograph: Kylie Stevenson for the Guardian 
  
 “We don’t expect Paddy will be found alive,” he says. 
  
 Unusual is often the usual in Larrimah. It’s the kind of place where you might find a wild donkey at your back door or a death adder in your bed. A place where neighbourhood disputes sometimes result in a wallaby carcass being thrown into a person’s front yard or one’s pet peacocks being fed to the resident croc. 
  
 So when I first heard one of the town’s handful of residents was missing, it struck me as strange, but not entirely out of the realm of normal for that odd little outback town where I once spent two weeks trying to bash out a novel. When I heard the missing person was Paddy, and a week later he still hadn’t been found, it was a little more disquieting. 
  
 I had a drink with Paddy most days during my time in Larrimah. We chatted about his freezing cold, poverty-stricken life in Ireland, about how he came to Australia on the Fairstar as a young fellow and went to work on stations across the north. His 16-year-old border collie Rover was always by his side – the pair of them appeared on the cover of the book Every Man and His Dog. I heard his beloved pet passed away a few months after I left. 
  
 Paddy was a creature of habit. He’d turn up at the pub in the morning to help out around the premises, cleaning the toilet block or mowing the lawns before melting into a bar stool where he’d drink eight XXXX Golds, then hoist Rover on to his quad bike and head home. 
  
 Sunday was “church”, where he and publican Barry Sharpe would sit silently in front of the television, sipping beer, catching up on the latest in rural news. “Church” is ABC’s Landline. 
  
 “That was our little ritual of a Sunday,” says Barry. “We’d get here before Landline and the hymns would be on, so we called it church. It was our little joke.” 
  
 Karen Rayner managed the pub for two years and saw Paddy almost every day. They’d watch cooking shows together and whenever she responded to any of his yarns with incredulity he’d reply “true word”. 
  
 He was a neat and tidy person, she says. He was honest, pedantic about paying his bills on time, and if he planned on going somewhere, he’d let them know, often months in advance. 
  
 “I want people to know he was a good bloke,” she says. 
  
 Barry describes him as a gentleman, “always cheerful and laughing”. 
  
 “He was the type of bloke you wouldn’t think would have an enemy in the world,” he says. 
  
 But both Karen and Barry admit that while most people did love Paddy, he wasn’t without detractors. In fact, no one in Larrimah is universally liked by the rest of the town’s residents. 
  
 The population hovers around 10, and that small number is split into factions. Some neighbours have ignored one another for more than a decade, others occasionally yell abuse at each other. 
  
 At the height of Larrimah’s long-running civil war, two rival progress associations existed, a fight erupted over stolen recipes for buffalo pie and yes, Barry confirms, those peacocks were fed to the pet croc in an act of revenge. 
  
 “There have been a lot of problems in that community and people who don’t speak to each other,” Allen says. “But just because people argue doesn’t mean they’ve gone out and killed him.” 
  
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Larrimah Pink Panther Hotel. Photograph: Kylie Stevenson for the Guardian 
  
 And even though the town’s history doesn’t paint Larrimah as a glowing civic example, Paddy’s disappearance has showed that strong mateship sits alongside the animosity. In a big city would anyone notice if a 70-year-old man wasn’t seen for a few days? Here, Barry noticed his absence immediately when he failed to turn up to “church”. 
  
 “I thought he might be crook so I went to check on him, and when he wasn’t there I thought maybe he’d gone to a mate’s place for the day,” Barry says. “But when he didn’t turn up the day after that, I went and reported it to police.” 
  
 Although he doesn’t expect Paddy is still alive, Allen says they haven’t given up. Police are still appealing for any passersby who might have seen anything and have put a call out for anyone who might have come across Paddy’s dog, Kellie. 
  
 “We’re never going to stop looking for Paddy and Kellie,” he says. “However long it takes, whatever it takes.” 
  
 And what happens when such a small town is down one man? How do the other residents get on with life? 
  
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 Karen says Paddy’s disappearance has left “an awkward hole here”; Barry describes it as “a big vacuum in our lives”. 
  
 They can’t entirely ignore the flecks of hope that Paddy and Kellie might one day emerge from the red dust, but they know in all likelihood they’ll be back at the little bush cemetery to farewell him. 
  
 “Of course we have hope he might be alive,” Karen said. “We don’t want to have a service just in case. We can’t say goodbye to Paddy, we can’t give him a service. We are stuck in the middle.” 
  
 • Kylie Stevenson was the recipient of the inaugural Andrew McMillan Writers’ Retreat held in Larrimah 
  
 • On 8 February 2017, this article was amended to correct the year the author was in Larrimah |||||
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– Everyone in the town of Larrimah is under investigation for the disappearance of Paddy Moriarty—and that means all 11 people. Authorities are poking around this dusty Australian pitstop after Moriarty, a day laborer, vanished along with his dog one night last December, the New York Times reports. Top suspects in the presumed homicide include a pie-maker Moriarty hated, a gardener he argued with, and a bartender with a nasty tongue. "He started abusing my customers, threatening tourists and scaring them away from [my] business," said meat-pie cook Fran Hodgetts at an inquest last month, per ABC News Australia. Moriarty, 70, lived across from her Tea House eatery and got upset when her customers parked on his land. Like all players in this drama, 75-year-old Hodgetts denies guilt—but says she warned her burly gardener, Owen Laurie, "not to do anything stupid" after he argued with Moriarty about his barking dog three days before the disappearance. Laurie, 71, warned Moriarity to quiet the dog "or I'll shut it up for you," per inquest testimony. Then there's former bartender Richard Simpson, one of the last residents to see Moriarty, who criticized the man but calls people who suspect Simpson "goddamn fools." Jokes are circulating about Moriarty ending up in Hodgetts' meat pies, or fed to a hefty crocodile kept in town, but so far investigators appear stumped. "There have been a lot of problems in that community," the detective in charge tells the Guardian. "But just because people argue doesn't mean they've gone out and killed him."
Här är en nyhetsartikel: Mr Laurie medgav att han hade ett dåligt humör, men han förnekade all inblandning, i det han vände rättens uppmärksamhet tillbaka till där mr Moriarty senast sågs: Den rosa pantern. Mr Simpson jobbar inte längre på puben. Mr Sharpe sade att han fick sparken en vecka före rättsläkarens förhör — några dagar innan jag kom för att finna hans rum där en röra av smutsiga kläder och tomma ölburkar. Han verkade ha gått vidare och har sedan dess ersatts av någon annan, vilket höll Larrimahs befolkning stadigt vid 11. Förr var det 12. Runt omkring i baren talar patronerna fortfarande om mr Moriartys försvinnande. “Kyrkan” på söndagar har återupptagits, men utan den charm som Mr Moriarty brukade föra till det. Eftersom han inte hade någon familj i Australien, kontrollerar nu den offentliga förvaltaren sin egendom. För att hålla ett öga på allt som kan se misstänkt ut har hans hem utrustats med övervakningskameror, och det flankeras av ett stort persontecken som saknas. Den innehåller en bild av Mr Moriarty, leende, med en fråga som många i stan fortfarande frågar: “Vad hände med Paddy?” ♪ Paddy Moriarty fråga: Larrimah lokal berättade 'inte göra något dumt’ efter argument Uppdaterad Fran Hodgetts, ägare av Larrimah te hus, har berättat en förfrågan om försvinnandet av Paddy Moriarty att hon sade till en kamrat "inte göra något dumt" efter att han hade ett gräl med Mr Moriarty dagar innan hans försvinnande. Mr Moriarty, 70, sågs senast lämna den lokala puben den 16 december 2017. I går hörde mr Moriarty att han hade tur, men han grälade med mrs Hodgetts, vars tehus låg mitt emot mr Moriartys egendom på Stuart Highway. Vittnena berättade att igår hörde paret avskydde varandra, och skulle ofta kasta misshandel på varandra. På fredagen berättade hon för förhöret paret hade varit "grann", men saker och ting blev sura när Mr Moriarty stal hennes solparaply 2010, även om polisen inte hittade bevis för att detta hände. "Han var arg", sade Hodgetts Mr Moriarty började sedan skrämma bort sina kunder från tehuset. "Han började misshandla mina kunder, hota turister och skrämma bort dem från [mina] affärer", sade hon. Miss Hodgetts vittnade om att "hon varit i helvetet och tillbaka" under de kommande 10 åren, med en rad anklagelser om egendomsskador och stöld. "Jag har aldrig misshandlat honom och jag har inte gjort något för vad han gjorde mot mig ... För flera år sedan jag gick skurk på honom, en gång," sade hon. Fyra dagar före mr Moriartys försvinnande anklagade ms Hodgetts honom för att ha släpat en död känguru över till hennes egendom, men förnekade att hon hämnas. »Jag svär vid Gud, jag aldrig, jag kunde inte röra en känguru», sade hon. Dagen därpå hörde förhöret hennes följeslagare, Owen Laurie, råka i gräl med mr Moriarty om deras hundar. "Jag sa åt honom att inte göra något dumt", sa miss Hodgetts till förhöret. "Ja, han var arg, på grund av det som har hänt i det förflutna." Hon berättade för hovet, att herr Laurie hade sagt "det blir bråk" samma dag som grälet om hundarna. »Och jag sade: 'Gör ingenting dumt ... jag vill inte komma tillbaka och se dig i fängelse'», sade hon. Laurie har förnekat att argumentet var aggressivt på båda sidor och beskrivit Hodgetts redogörelse som "utsmyckning". "Jag var inte arg eller aggressiv för det", berättade han förhöret. Mr Laurie berättade för förhöret att han skämtade när han tidigare hade sagt till ms Hodgetts "om någon rör mina växter, blir det det första mordet i Larrimah". "Jag hade ingen avsikt att mörda någon över en trädgård", sa han till rättsläkare Greg Cavanagh. »Folk har mördats för mycket mindre, sir», sade mr Cavanagh. Mr Moriarty sågs senast på sin fyrhjuling, och lämnade Rosa Pantern omkring 18:00, och en halvtimme senare Mr Laurie gjorde två telefonsamtal från en offentlig telefonkiosk, förhöret hördes. Rättsläkaren Kelvin Currie föreslog för Laurie att han skulle se mr Moriarty på sin fyrhjuling från telefonkiosken, men Laurie förnekade att han såg honom. Miss Hodgetts bröt ihop i vittnesbåset när hon förnekade att hon ljög om sitt vittnesmål, och sade att varken hon eller Mr Laurie visste något om Mr Moriartys försvinnande. Förhöret fick veta att Mr Moriarty var en vanemänniska, och när han inte dök upp på puben en dag, och hans hem verkade som om han aldrig hade lämnat det, praktiskt taget alla i samhället tyckte att något var fel. Ett omfattande sökande har inte avslöjat några tecken på var mr Moriarty eller hans hund befinner sig. Nästan hela befolkningen i Larrimah, som har runt 12 invånare, kallades som vittnen vid förhöret. Frågestunden skulle vara avslutad i fredags men har nu skjutits upp till ett senare datum. Ämnen: saknad person, samhälle och samhälle, polis, lag-brott-och-rättvisa, Katherine-0850 Först postad »» Paddy Moriarty försvann i december från Larrimah. Nu är den lilla stadens skarpa delar i nationens strålkastarljuset Det var en fruktansvärt het oktoberdag 2016 när jag stod på Larrimahs lilla buskkyrkogård med Paddy Moriarty. Temperaturen sträckte sig för 40C och flugorna var outtömliga. Jag marinerade i min svett när Paddy och hans kompis, Barry Sharpe, reste en gravsten på en annan väns, författaren Andrew McMillans, grav. Det fanns då bara fyra gravar där: Andrews, ett par stationsägare och en Overland Telegraph-arbetare som dog 1899. Ingen av oss kunde ha vetat att Paddys grav skulle bli den näste att förena sig med dem. Det vill säga, det blir om hans kropp någonsin hittas. Saknad tysk turist: andra kroppen hittades i avlägsna Northern Territory Läs mer Paddy, en 70-årig smiley mustachioed-kille, försvann från den röda dammiga no-horse staden Larrimah i Northern Territory den 16 december 2017. Den dagen hade han druckit på Pink Panther Hotel innan han gick hem för att äta middag. Polisen säger att hans hus var i ordning, att datumet ströks från kalendern, hans säng bäddades och hans middag på bordet redo att värmas upp. Hans signaturhatt, som han aldrig var utan, låg på bordet, vid sidan av sitt nyckelkort och sina läsglasögon. Hans kelpiekors Kellie saknas också. Kriminalinspektör Matt Allen, som är ansvarig för fallet, säger att omfattande mark- och flygsökningar av området inte har avslöjat någonting, tidsramen för överlevnad har gått ut och Paddys försvinnande behandlas som misstänkt. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Paddy Moriarty och Barry Sharpe vid författaren Andrew McMillans grav på en liten buskekyrkogård i Larrimah. Foto: Kylie Stevenson för Väktaren – Vi förväntar oss inte att Paddy ska hittas levande, säger han. Ovanligt är ofta det vanliga i Larrimah. Det är den typ av plats där du kan hitta en vild åsna vid din bakdörr eller en dödsadver i din säng. En plats där grannskapstvister ibland leder till att en wallabykadav kastas in på en persons framgård eller att ens husdjurspåfåglar matas ut till den bofaste krokodilen. Så när jag först hörde att en av stadens få invånare saknades, slog det mig som konstigt, men inte helt och hållet utanför det normalas område för den udda lilla obygdsstaden, där jag en gång tillbringade två veckor med att försöka slå ut en roman. När jag hörde att den saknade personen var Paddy, och en vecka senare hade han fortfarande inte hittats, var det lite mer oroande. Jag tog en drink med Paddy de flesta dagar under min tid i Larrimah. Vi pratade om hans iskalla, fattigdomsdrabbade liv på Irland, om hur han kom till Australien på Fairstar som ung och gick till arbetet på stationer över norr. Hans 16-åriga border collie Rover fanns alltid vid hans sida – paret av dem dök upp på omslaget till boken Every Man and His Dog. Jag hörde att hans älskade husdjur gick bort några månader efter att jag åkt. Paddy var en vanemänniska. Han dök upp på puben på morgonen för att hjälpa till runt i lokalen, städa toalettblocket eller klippa gräsmattor innan han smält ner i en barpall där han drack åtta XXXX Golds, sedan hissa Rover vidare till sin fyrhjuling och bege sig hem. Söndagen var ”kyrkan”, där han och publican Barry Sharpe satt tysta framför TV:n, smuttade öl och tog igen det senaste i landsbygdsnyheterna. ”Kyrkan” är ABC:s Landline. – Det var vår lilla söndagsritual, säger Barry. — Vi skulle komma hit innan Landline och psalmerna skulle vara på, så kallade vi det för kyrka. Det var vårt lilla skämt.” Karen Rayner skötte puben i två år och såg Paddy nästan varje dag. De tittade på matlagningsshower tillsammans och när hon svarade på något av hans garn med misstro svarade han “sanna ord”. Han var en prydlig och prydlig person, säger hon. Han var ärlig, pedantisk om att betala sina räkningar i tid, och om han planerade att åka någonstans, skulle han låta dem veta, ofta månader i förväg. – Jag vill att folk ska veta att han var en bra kille, säger hon. Barry beskriver honom som en gentleman, “alltid glad och skrattande”. "Han var den typ av kille du inte skulle tro skulle ha en fiende i världen," säger han. Men både Karen och Barry medger att de flesta människor älskade Paddy, men han var inte utan belackare. Ingen i Larrimah är i själva verket allmänt omtyckt av de övriga invånarna i staden. Populationen svävar runt 10, och det lilla antalet delas upp i fraktioner. En del grannar har ignorerat varandra i mer än ett decennium, andra skriker ibland misshandel åt varandra. På höjden av Larrimahs långvariga inbördeskrig existerade två rivaliserande framstegsföreningar, en kamp utbröt över stulna recept på buffelpaj och ja, bekräftar Barry, dessa påfåglar matades till husdjurskrokus i en handling av hämnd. – Det har varit en massa problem i det samhället och människor som inte pratar med varandra, säger Allen. “Men bara för att folk grälar betyder inte att de har gått ut och dödat honom.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Larrimah Pink Panther Hotel. Fotografi: Kylie Stevenson för Väktaren Och även om stadens historia inte målar Larrimah som ett glödande medborgarexempel, har Paddys försvinnande visat att starkt kamratskap sitter vid sidan av fientligheten. I en stor stad skulle någon märka om en 70-årig man inte sågs på några dagar? Här märkte Barry sin frånvaro omedelbart när han misslyckades med att dyka upp till ”kyrkan”. — Jag tänkte att han kanske var skurk, så jag gick för att titta till honom, och när han inte var där, tänkte jag att han kanske hade gått till en kompis plats för dagen, säger Barry. “Men när han inte dök upp dagen efter, gick jag och anmälde det till polisen.” Även om han inte förväntar sig att Paddy fortfarande lever, säger Allen att de inte har gett upp. Polisen vädjar fortfarande för alla förbipasserande som kan ha sett vad som helst och har ropat efter vem som helst som kan ha stött på Paddys hund, Kellie. – Vi kommer aldrig att sluta leta efter Paddy och Kellie, säger han. "Hur lång tid det än tar, vad som än krävs." Och vad händer när en så liten stad är nere en man? Hur går det för de andra invånarna? Kroppen hittades av en amerikansk turist som försvann på Larapinta Trail Läs mer Karen säger att Paddys försvinnande har lämnat ”ett pinsamt hål här”; Barry beskriver det som ”ett stort vakuum i våra liv”. De kan inte helt ignorera hoppets fläckar att Paddy och Kellie en dag kan komma ut ur det röda dammet, men de vet med all sannolikhet att de kommer tillbaka på den lilla buskekyrkogården för att ta farväl av honom. — Naturligtvis ha vi hopp om att han kan vara vid liv, sade Karen. – Vi vill inte ha en tjänst bara för säkerhets skull. Vi kan inte ta farväl av Paddy, vi kan inte ge honom en tjänst. Vi är fast i mitten.” • Kylie Stevenson var mottagare av den konstituerande Andrew McMillan Writers’ Retreat som hölls i Larrimah • Den 8 februari 2017 ändrades denna artikel för att korrigera det år författaren var i Larrimah <unk> En sammanfattning av detta är?
Here is a news article: Mr. Laurie admitted that he had a bad temper, but he denied any involvement, turning the court's attention back to where Mr. Moriarty was last seen: The pink panther. Mr. Simpson no longer works in the pub. Mr. Sharpe said he was fired a week before the coroner’s hearing — a few days before I came to find his room where a mess of dirty clothes and empty beer cans. He appeared to have moved on and has since been replaced by someone else, keeping Larrimah's population steady at 11. It used to be 12. Around the bar, the cartridges are still talking about Mr. Moriarty's disappearance. The “Church” on Sundays has resumed, but without the charm that Mr Moriarty used to bring to it. Since he had no family in Australia, the public administrator now controls his property. To keep an eye on anything that may look suspicious, his home has been equipped with surveillance cameras, and it is flanked by a large personal sign missing. It contains a picture of Mr. Moriarty, smiling, with a question that many in town still ask: “What happened to Paddy?” ♪ Paddy Moriarty question: Larrimah local told 'do nothing stupid' after arguments Updated Fran Hodgetts, owner of Larrimah tea house, has told a request about the disappearance of Paddy Moriarty that she told a comrade "do nothing stupid" after he had an argument with Mr. Moriarty days before his disappearance. Mr. Moriarty, 70, was last seen leaving the local pub on December 16, 2017. Yesterday, Mr. Moriarty heard that he was lucky, but he was arguing with Mrs. Hodgetts, whose teahouse was opposite Mr. Moriarty's property on Stuart Highway. The Witnesses told us that yesterday the couple heard hate each other, and would often throw abuse at each other. On Friday, she told the interrogation the couple had been "neighbourly", but things got sour when Mr. Moriarty stole her sun umbrella in 2010, although police did not find evidence that this happened. "He was angry," said Hodgett's Mr. Moriarty then began to scare his customers away from the teahouse. "He started beating my customers, threatening tourists and scaring them away from [my] business," she said. Miss Hodgetts testified that "she's been in hell and back" for the next 10 years, with a series of allegations of property damage and theft. "I've never beaten him and I haven't done anything for what he did to me... Several years ago I went rogue on him, once," she said. Four days before Mr. Moriarty's disappearance, Ms. Hodgetts accused him of dragging a dead kangaroo over to her property, but denied she revenge. "I swear to God, I never, I couldn't touch a kangaroo," she said. The next day, the interrogation heard her companion, Owen Laurie, get into an argument with Mr. Moriarty about their dogs. "I told him not to do anything stupid," said Miss Hodgetts to the hearing. "Yes, he was angry, because of what has happened in the past." She told the court, that Mr. Laurie had said "there will be trouble" the day of the argument over the dogs. "And I said, 'Do nothing stupid...I don't want to come back and see you in prison'," she said. Laurie has denied that the argument was aggressive on both sides and described Hodgett's account as "adorning". "I wasn't angry or aggressive about it," he told the interrogation. Mr. Laurie told the interrogation that he was joking when he had previously told Ms. Hodgetts "if anyone touches my plants, it will be the first murder in Larrimah". "I had no intention of murdering anyone over a garden," he told coroner Greg Cavanagh. "People have been murdered for much less, sir," said Mr. Cavanagh. Mr. Moriarty was last seen on his four-wheeler, leaving the Pink Panther around 6:00 p.m., and half an hour later Mr. Laurie made two phone calls from a public telephone booth, the interrogation was heard. The coroner Kelvin Currie suggested to Laurie that he see Mr. Moriarty on his four-wheeler from the phone booth, but Laurie denied seeing him. Miss Hodgetts broke down in the stand when she denied she lied about her testimony, saying that neither she nor Mr. Laurie knew anything about Mr. Moriarty's disappearance. The hearing learned that Mr. Moriarty was a habitual person, and when he did not appear in the pub one day, and his home seemed as if he had never left it, practically everyone in the community thought something was wrong. An extensive search has revealed no evidence of the whereabouts of Mr. Moriarty or his dog. Almost the entire population of Larrimah, which has around 12 inhabitants, was called as witnesses at the hearing. Question Time was due to be closed on Friday but has now been postponed to a later date. Topics: missing person, community and community, police, law-crime-and-justice, Katherine-0850 First posted  Paddy Moriarty disappeared in December from Larrimah. Now the small town's sharp parts in the nation's spotlight It was a terribly hot October day 2016 when I stood on Larrimah's small bush cemetery with Paddy Moriarty. The temperature reached for 40C and the flies were inexhaustible. I marinated in my sweat when Paddy and his friend, Barry Sharpe, erected a tombstone on another friend's grave, writer Andrew McMillans. There were then only four graves there: Andrews, a couple of station owners and an Overland Telegraph worker who died in 1899. None of us could have known Paddy's grave would be the next to join them. That is, it will be if his body is ever found. Missing German tourist: second body found in distant Northern Territory Read more Paddy, a 70-year-old smiley mustachioed guy, disappeared from the red dusty no-horse town of Larrimah in the Northern Territory on 16 December 2017. That day he had been drinking at the Pink Panther Hotel before going home to have dinner. Police say his house was in order, that the date was deleted from the calendar, his bed was made and his dinner on the table ready to warm up. His signature hat, which he was never without, lay on the table, alongside his keycard and his reading glasses. His Kelpie Cross Kellie is also missing. Detective Matt Allen, who is responsible for the case, says extensive ground and flight searches of the area have revealed nothing, the time frame for survival has expired and Paddy's disappearance is being treated as suspicious. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Paddy Moriarty and Barry Sharpe at the tomb of author Andrew McMillan on a small bush cemetery in Larrimah. Photo: Kylie Stevenson for the Guardian – We do not expect Paddy to be found alive, he says. Unusual is often the commonplace in Larrimah. It's the kind of place where you can find a wild donkey at your back door or a death row in your bed. A place where neighbourhood disputes sometimes lead to a wallaby carcass being thrown into a person's evidence or even pet peacocks being fed to the resident crocodile. So when I first heard that one of the town’s few inhabitants was missing, it struck me as strange, but not entirely outside the normal area of the odd little out-of-town town, where I once spent two weeks trying to knock out a novel. When I heard that the missing person was Paddy, and a week later he had still not been found, it was a little more worrying. I had a drink with Paddy most days during my time in Larrimah. We talked about his icy, poverty - stricken life in Ireland, about how he came to Australia at Fairstar as a young man and went to work at stations across the north. His 16-year-old border collie Rover was always by his side – the pair of them appeared on the cover of the book Every Man and His Dog. I heard his beloved pet passed away a few months after I left. Paddy was a habit. He appeared at the pub in the morning to help around the venue, clean the toilet block or cut lawns before melting into a bar stool where he drank eight XXXX Golds, then hoist Rover on to his four-wheeler and head home. Sunday was “the church”, where he and publican Barry Sharpe sat silently in front of the TV, sipping beer and catching up on the latest in rural news. The ‘Church’ is ABC's Landline. “It was our little Sunday ritual,” says Barry. “We would come here before Landline and the hymns would be on, so we called it church. It was our little joke.” Karen Rayner managed the pub for two years and saw Paddy almost every day. They watched cooking shows together and when she responded to any of his yarns with distrust he replied “true words”. He was a neat and neat person, she says. He was honest, pedantic about paying his bills on time, and if he planned to go somewhere, he would let them know, often months in advance. “I want people to know that he was a good guy,” she says. Barry describes him as a gentleman, “always happy and laughing”. "He was the kind of guy you wouldn't think would have an enemy in the world," he says. But both Karen and Barry admit that most people loved Paddy, but he was not without detractors. In fact, no one in Larrimah is widely liked by the other inhabitants of the city. The population hovers around 10, and the small number is divided into fractions. Some neighbors have been ignoring each other for more than a decade, others sometimes yelling abuse at each other. At the height of Larrimah's long-standing civil war there existed two rival progressive associations, a struggle erupted over stolen recipes for buffalo pie and yes, confirms Barry, these peacocks were fed to pet crocus in an act of revenge. “There have been a lot of problems in that society and people who don’t talk to each other,” Allen says. “But just because people argue doesn’t mean they’ve gone out and killed him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Larrimah Pink Panther Hotel. Photograph: Kylie Stevenson for the Guardian And although the history of the city does not paint Larrimah as a glowing example of citizenship, Paddy's disappearance has shown that strong camaraderie sits alongside hostility. In a big city, would anyone notice if a 70-year-old man wasn't seen in a few days? Here Barry noticed his absence immediately when he failed to show up to the “church”. “I thought maybe he was a villain, so I went to check on him, and when he wasn’t there, I thought he might have gone to a friend’s place for the day,” says Barry. “But when he didn’t show up the next day, I went and reported it to the police.” Although he doesn’t expect Paddy to still be alive, Allen says they haven’t given up. Police are still appealing for any passersby who may have seen anything and have been calling for anyone who may have encountered Paddy's dog, Kellie. “We will never stop looking for Paddy and Kellie,” he says. "No matter how long it takes, whatever it takes." And what happens when such a small town is down a man? How are the other residents doing? The body was found by an American tourist who disappeared on the Larapinta Trail Read more Karen says Paddy's disappearance has left “an embarrassing hole here”; Barry describes it as “a great vacuum in our lives”. They cannot completely ignore the spots of hope that Paddy and Kellie may one day come out of the red dust, but they know in all likelihood that they will come back in the small bush cemetery to say goodbye to him. “Of course we have hope that he can be alive,” Karen said. “We don’t want a favor just in case. We can't say goodbye to Paddy, we can't give him a favor. We are stuck in the middle.” • Kylie Stevenson was the recipient of the inaugural Andrew McMillan Writers’ Retreat held in Larrimah • On February 8, 2017, this article was changed to correct the year the author was in Larrimah <unk> A summary of this is?
– Alla i staden Larrimah är under utredning för försvinnandet av Paddy Moriarty – och det betyder alla 11 personer. Myndigheterna snokar runt i den här dammiga australiska pitstopen efter att Moriarty, en daglönare, försvann tillsammans med sin hund en kväll i december, rapporterar New York Times. Bland de misstänkta i det förmodade mordet finns en pajmakare Moriarty hatade, en trädgårdsmästare han grälade med, och en bartender med en otäck tunga. "Han började misshandla mina kunder, hota turister och skrämma bort dem från [min] verksamhet", sade köttpajkocken Fran Hodgetts på en förfrågan förra månaden, per ABC News Australia. Moriarty, 70 år, bodde mittemot sitt Tea House-äteri och blev upprörd när hennes kunder parkerade på hans mark. Liksom alla spelare i detta drama förnekar 75-årige Hodgetts skuld — men säger att hon varnade sin burdusige trädgårdsmästare, Owen Laurie, "att inte göra något dumt" efter att han grälat med Moriarty om hans skällande hund tre dagar före försvinnandet. Laurie, 71, varnade Moriarity för att tysta hunden "eller så ska jag hålla tyst för dig", per förhör vittnesmål. Sedan finns före detta bartendern Richard Simpson, en av de sista invånarna som såg Moriarty, som kritiserade mannen men kallar folk som misstänker Simpson för "guddamn dårar". Skämt cirkulerar om att Moriarty hamnar i Hodgetts köttpajer, eller matas till en rejäl krokodil som hålls i stan, men än så länge verkar utredare stumpade. "Det har varit en hel del problem i det samhället", berättar detektiven ansvarig för Guardian. "Men bara för att folk grälar betyder det inte att de har gått ut och dödat honom."
– Everyone in the city of Larrimah is under investigation for the disappearance of Paddy Moriarty – and that means all 11 people. Authorities are snooping around this dusty Australian pitstop after Moriarty, a day laborer, disappeared with his dog one night in December, reports the New York Times. Among the suspects in the supposed murder is a pie maker Moriarty hated, a gardener he argued with, and a bartender with a nasty tongue. "He started beating my customers, threatening tourists and scaring them away from [my] business," said meat pie chef Fran Hodgetts on a request last month, per ABC News Australia. Moriarty, aged 70, lived opposite her Tea House eatery and was upset when her customers parked on his land. Like all players in this drama, 75-year-old Hodgett denies guilt — but says she warned her burdous gardener, Owen Laurie, "to do nothing stupid" after he argued with Moriarty about his barking dog three days before the disappearance. Laurie, 71, warned Moriarity not to silence the dog "or I'll shut up to you", per interrogation testimony. Then there is former bartender Richard Simpson, one of the last residents to see Moriarty, who criticized the man but calls people who suspect Simpson of "goddamn fools". Joke circulates that Moriarty ends up in Hodgett's meat pies, or is fed to a hefty crocodile held in town, but so far investigators seem stumped. "There have been a lot of problems in that community," the detective in charge of the Guardian tells. "But just because people fight doesn't mean they've gone out and killed him."