On Murder Charge Laborer For Trial Man Believed Kicked to Death Sydney
Timothy Ryan, aged 44, laborer, who had been charged with the murder, was present in custody to-day at the inquest into the death of Eric Arthur…
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She Wept Bitterly Housemaid in Witness Box Divorce Court Proceedings Sydney
Evidence that Oscar Ireland had ordered her out of his home after she had asked him not to swear at his wife, was given by Mrs. Florence…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →12 Months’ Gaol for Uttering Sydney
Convicted at Darlinghurst Sessions to-day on a charge of having uttered and forged a bank deposit receipt for £186 on the head office of the Bank…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Asked Sergeant for 6d.—GAOL Term Follows
Edward Kelly, aged 42, a resident of N.S.W., was stated to have had 70 prior convictions when he appeared at the Wangaratta Police Court…
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“I’ve been hoping, Mr. Quade, if we let you talk you’d give yourself away, Now you’re done it, and there’s a chance you’re O.K. What do you…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DISMISSED Chimney Sweep’s Appeal Murder Conviction Melbourne
With the Chief Justice (Sir Frederick Mann) dissenting, the Court of Criminal Appeal to-day dismissed the appeal of George Green, aged 42,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Aborigine on Murder Charge Allegedly Strangled Another Native Brisbane
Peter Moran, aged 60, an aborigine, was to-day remanded by Malanda police court on a charge of having murdered Johnny Martin, aged 45,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Magistrate Said Young Woman Was a Disgrace to Her Sex! Wellington (N.z.)
Saying she was a disgrace to her sex, the Magistrate at Auckland police court to-day ordered a young woman to come up for sentence in six months,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Accused Man Collapses in Dock Attempted Murder Trial Postponed Brisbane
Charged with having attempted to kill his wife, John Edward Stangler, aged 38, collapsed in the dock of the Criminal Court to-day during the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Man Remanded to Albury Court Melbourne
Allan Gettings, aged 24, of Evans road, Moonee Ponds, was charged in the City police court this morning with having, at Albury on January 8,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pensioned Off a Fit Man Rigors of Police Life Did Not Harm Him
At 50 years of age he was presumed to be beyond the arduous demands of police duties. But was he? Read what he says new—five years after he…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fell in Love with Married Woman Chemist Tells Court Denies Adultery Charge Sydney
Although he had fallen in-love with Mrs. Mabel Agnes Ireland, he had never committed adultery with her, declared Lindsay Gordon Bennett,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burst Bones Mystery Charge in Police Court “Remains Taken From Cemetery” Auckland
Police alleged in the Auckland police court yesterday that human remains found after a fire had burnt down a hut at piha on…
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BLOOD! You could hear the gasp that ran around our piazza and made everybody lean forward with a dazed expression…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Irish Terrorists Heavy Gaol Sentences Young Man’s Outburst Manchester, March 11
Sentences of 20 years penal servitude were imposed on five men to-day, as a result of bombings in England, the alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Franco’s Hands An Australian’s Experience Sentenced to Death Three Times Perth
An Australian who was sentenced to death three times while a prisoner in Nationalist Spain has arrived at Fremantle as a seaman…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →“Discontent Rampant” Police Force Grievances Government Attacked Sydney
According to the secretary of the Police Association (Mr. Cosgrove) to-day, “the whale force is seething with discontent over the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Murder Charge Man is Locked Up Sequel to Alleged Brawl Melbourne
John Kirby, aged M, M .Elgin st., Gar[?] was round dead in an apartment house in Canning st., Carlton, tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rioting Fruit-pickers Almost Take Town Serious Melee at Red Cliffs Police Draw Revolvers Many Arrests; Workless Driven to Point of Desperation MILDURA
Over 500 rioting fruitpickers almost overwhelmed Red Cliffs on Saturday night, when frenzied brawling grew to organised noting, which held the police, who were reinforced by firemen and citizens, at bay for two hours in scenes as chaotic as those witnessed during the police strike…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Theft From Police. Revolver and Handcuffs
In the Court of Petty Sessions before the P.M., on Saturday, Frank Scanlan (21), was charged for that on 8th March, 1939, he did…
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