Mounted Police Control Traffic
SYDNEY, Thurs.—Mounted police were used experimentally today at two city intersections to control…
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Rigby convicted of assault on policeman
SYDNEY, Fri.—Alan Pierpont Rigby was convicted in Central Court today on three charges of offensive behaviour, resisting arrest and assaulting Constable…
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BONN, Fri.—Russia's world spy chain, shaken by the Petrov affair in Australia, was again snapped yesterday when a Soviet agent sent to murder a leading anti-Communist Russian emigree with a "cigarette case" gun loaded with poisoned…
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Yesterday morning as the last case in the District Court was proceeding one of the parties failed to…
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The failure of a witness to appear when subpoenaed, at one stage threatened to hold up the hearing of an action…
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BRISBANE, Mon. — A 28 year-old man will be charged in Maryborough Court tomorrow with the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Seek Driver after Collision
A car belonging to James Cobden Jones, of Wiseman Ave., Wollongong, was extensively damaged when it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five Years' Gaol for Man Who Broke Into Thirroul Theatre
MAITLAND, Tues.—Judge Amsberg, in sentencing a 26 year old man to five years' gaol, told the man today his "catalogue of crimes" was alarming…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Cyclist Saw Severed Leg Standing in Sand, Court Told
A 63 year old motor cyclist, in describing an accident as the result of which his right leg was severed, told the Wollongong Supreme Court yesterday he was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Permanently Injured Girl in Court on Stretcher
A girl, who was seriously injured when a car in which five Young people were travelling overturned in Lawrence Hargrave Drive on November 27 last, was taken into Bulli Court on Friday morning to give evidence on a stretcher…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Injuries to Boy Could Have Caused Death, Doctor Tells Court
BRISBANE, Wed.—Shocking injuries to a 12 year old boy, allegedly inflicted with a doubled stockwhip, could have caused death, a doctor told the Police…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mother of 3 Charged with Husband's Murder
three children appeared in Central Court SYDNEY, Thurs.—The mother of today on a charge of having murdered her husband…
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Two men, alleged to have stolen meat and bread from the storeroom of the Illowra Hostel, appeared in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Half-choked" Wife to Death, Court Told
A woman claimed in the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday that her husband had "half-choked" her to death and [?]en struck her in the eye…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Manager Charged
LONDON, Fri.—The office manager of a London chemist factory where two girls were fatally…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Camp Assault Charge Detective Denies Striking Prisoner At Police Station
Suggestions that police had used violence against an arrested man at Kiama Police Station were rejected by a Detective-Sergeant on Wednesday. The claim that a militiaman had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charged After Crash Into Pole
The driver of a car that was wrecked when it crashed into a telegraph pole on Princes Highway, Fairy Meadow, early…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Indicted for Alleged Theft of Hostel Food
Two young men who allegedly broke into the cold storroom at the Illowra Hostel on April 16 and stole 12/6 worth of food were committed for trial at the Wollongong Court on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Five Charged with Conspiracy
SYDNEY, Mon.—Five men had conspired to obtain false licences for goods valued at £250,000, the Special Court was told today. Mr. R. L. Taylor, Q.C…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Shoot Triple Murderer
CANTON (Ohio), Mon.—William Henry, 72, labourer, shot and killed his wife, son and…
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