Murder Appeal Rejected
MELBOURNE, Mon. — Twenty-eight-years-old William John O'Meally failed today to gain a retrial for…
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Life Gaol For Opposing Land Reform
EL MINYA (Egypt), Mon. — Sayed Adel Saleh Lamlum, 23, scion of one of Egypt's wealthiest…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Youth Charged With Obstructing Railway Line
SYDNEY, Mon. — Detectives investigating the placing of obstructions on the railway line near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murder Suspected in Kiandra Deaths
SYDNEY, Mon.—Police believe two young men whose bodies were found in a deserted hut near Kiandra today were murdered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Retribution" Feared Court Told
SYDNEY, Mon.—Police said in Central Court to-day that a man who shot and killed an alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Month's Gaol for Theft of Steel
Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M., yesterday sentenced a man to one month hard labour for a theft of steel valued at £3/15/-. It was the third gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Nine Months' Gaol for Theft of Cambera
A Surrey Hills man who since 1939 has been sentenced to nearly 11 years gaol for dozens of stealing offences was sentenced to nine months' hard labour by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Corrimal Postmaster Charged with Murder of Wife
A man charged with murder told police he had had an un controllable impulse to seize his wife by the throat, it was alleged in Wollongong Court yesterday. Charged with the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steel on Line Alleged; Youth Charged
SYDNEY, Tues. — An 18-year-old lorry-driver had made a statement admitting that he had placed a length…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Committees to Police Free Drug Scheme
CANBERRA, Tues. — A Bill to establish committees to police the Government's free life saving drug scheme was introduced into the House of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Eden Disappearance Mentioned in Court
SYDNEY, Tues. — A 28-year-old labourer whom police said might or might not, be connected with the Eden disappearance case, was charged at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Macabre Sex Murder in North Queensland; Nude Body in Park
MACKAY, Tues. — The battered, nude body of a middle-aged woman was found in Queen's Park, Mackay early to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Court Power On Cafe Permits Urged
SYDNEY, Tues.—The Licensing Court should have power to grant permits to restaurants to sell all liquors during such hours as the Court thought fit, Mr. J. W. Smyth, Q.C., submitted at the Liquor Royal Commission toddy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Welsh Miner Appeals Against Month's Gaol Sentence
A Welsh miner, William Thomas Palmer Stnale (28) of Karingal Hostel sentenced to one month's gaol at the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Murder Charge Follows Death at Corrimal
Less than three hours after the body of a woman had been found at Corrimal Post Office residence on Tuesday, a man had been charged at Wollongong Court with her murder…
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Seven cases had been listed for hearing at the District Court set down before Judge O'Sullivan at Kiama on…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Motor Cyclist Stopped By Traffic Police
A motor-cyclist, who twice refused to obey a traffic police direction and on the third occasion was run into…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Two Charged After Payroll Theft Raids
MELBOURNE, Thurs.—Two men were remanded in the City Court today on charges that, being…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Allege Murder At Cootamundra
COOTA MUNDRA, Thurs. — Two men appeared in Cootamundra Court today charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man's last Bath Was In Gaol, Court Told
A man, who Sergt. Hutton described as being the filthiest in his 30 years' experience in the police force, admitted to police his last bath had been…
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