Assault on Girl (5)
SYDNEY, Friday.—A five-year-old girl, Marie Cri[?]mins, was found in a semi-conscious condition lying near the…
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Courts & crime, 1938
652 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 33
Brutal Assault on Sydney Woman
SYDNEY, Saturday.—A middleaged woman reported to the police that she had been attacked by a hawker in her home at Drummoyne,…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), January 29. —Evidence that Constable James Butler was so badly injured as the result of being kicked that he died…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Expect Early Arrest Clues In Lidcombe Bomb Outrage SYDNEY
CLUES in possession of the police are expected to lead to early arrests of persons concerned in the explosion which wrecked the front of a house at Lidcombe and killed a man and his wife early yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Moving Scene in Court Boy Who Killed His Father LONDON, January 30
A moving plea for the life of a boy who was stated to have killed his father with an axe caused women in the gallery to weep at the trial…
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CASINO, Tuesday.—A young native woman staggered into the police station in a dazed condition and alleged that a man had battered her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Capture of Arms Terrorists Win Police Post JERUSALEM, January 31
Arab terrorists operating in the Acre district swooped down on a party of supernumerary constables near Sukhmata, killed an Arab…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Business Manager Denies Charge Made by Police Alleged Driving Under Influence Of Liquor
EVIDENCE of how he had been attracted by the blowing of the horn of a motor car, and how he had allegedly found the defendant to be under the influence of liquor in the early hours of January 18 in Argent-street was…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday—In the Redfern Police Court to-day Frederick William Gray, motor driver, was charged with having on January 29…
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In a remarkable case at the Redfern Police Court Frederick William Gray (28), motor driver, was charged before Mr. Harvey, J.P., with having…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday—There are no new developments in the search for the perpetrators of the Lidcombe bombing outrage, but the Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Harrowing Confession Allegations By Police Robe Shooting Inquest Millicent
IN a barrowing confession which he allegedly made when questioned by the police, Ronald Albert Sharpe (16) related, according to evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Assault Sequel Defendant To Pay £8/13/
Fines and costs totalling £8/13/were imposed on Sidney John Halliday when he was found guilty by Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., in the Police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Doping Of Dorawyn Theft From Stewards Adelaide
Following the adjournment to-day of the inquiry into the alleged doping of the Manfred mare Dorawyn at Victoria Park on Saturday, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Radio Announcers Seek Court Protection
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Wages of ten guineas a week for senior radio announcers are being sought by professional employees of the Radio…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man On Big Salary Sent To Gaol For Fraud (By a Special Correspondent
One £1500-a-yar accountant to Maundy Gregory, sixty-yearold ex-blackmailer Benjamin George Pengelly, stricken by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hollywood Merry-Co-Round Gossip of the Week Studio Gossip Stars Go In Now For M-U-R-D-E-R!
HOLLYWOOD has passed through the vogue for gangster pictures, musical spectacles, all-star casts, and more recently, the craze for riotous comedies in which dignified players indulge in almost slapstick antics…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Youth Sent For Alleged Confession Made to Police "I Do Not Know What Made Me Shoot Her" MILLICENT
IN a barrowing confession which he allegedly made when questioned by the police, Ronald Albert Sharpe (16), related; according to evidence at the Robe tragedy inquest to-day, how he had brooded over a dispute with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stop Press Domestic Charged
SYDNEY, Friday—At the Centra£Court to-day Elizabeth Mary Whetton (50), domestic, was remanded until February 14 on a…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Hedley Gibson (33), William Thomas Dillon (27) and John Thomas McMullen (26), pleaded not guilty in the Quarter…
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