Woman Who Married Two Other Women Before Court Sydney
At the Reception House to-day Mr. Parker, S.M., remanded for further observation, Annie Payne, aged 64, who for 51 years posed as a…
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Man Detained Murder of Taxi Driver Body Found by Roadside Car Dash From Brisbane Into N.S.W. SYDNEY
Police at Bangalow, northern N.S.W., to-day detained a young man, following: the discovery of the body of Harry Chambers, a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Women Charged with Alleged Frock Theft Melbourne
To-night at the City Watchhouse three women were charged wife fee larceny of 63 frocks, valued in all at £162, the property of Sharpe Bros., of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Magistrate Robbed Melbourne
Mr McLean, P.M., Chief Magistrate the City Court was robbed of £6 2/ by a thief who broke into his Toorak road flat last night. Mr McLean was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attempt at Breaking Gaol Fails Noise in Cell Attracts Attention of Police Officer Katoomba
Herbert Hughes, aged 33, who was yesterday sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment on several charges of theft at Medlow Bath, endeavored to escape…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Booligal Police Station
Mr. Lawson also informs us that he has been informed by the Chief Secretary that it is intended to station a mounted constable at Booligal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Taxi Driver Shot Youth on Car Stealing Charge Blood Stained Suitcase Found Lismore
At the local police court to-day Derwent Evans Arkinstall, 18, and apprentice, was charged with having stolen a car on Tuesday in Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Robbery May Have Been Motive for Murder of Taxi Driver Lismore
Police were informed to-day that Howard P. Chambers, aged 50, taxi driver, whose body was found 14 miles from Brisbane yesterday, may have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Insincertiy Charge Against State Government Its Attitude to Monopolies U.A.P. Member Would Gaol Profiteers SYDNEY
Declaring that the price-fixing legislation before the House would not have the effect claimed by the Government, Mr. J. C. Ross (U.A.P., Kogarah) charged the Government with insincerity in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Remanded in Court “More Serious Charge Pending” Sequel to Wednesday’s Manhunt Lismore
Derwent Evans Arkinstall, aged 18, who was detained after a manhunt in the Bangalow district yesterday, was remanded in custody to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Open Finding at Walwa Coroner Unable to Say How Mrs. White Died Solicitor for Estate Testifies Police Produce Statement By Husband
After sitting for a day and a half, and taking evidence from every living person who could possibly be of assistance, the Coroner for the North-East (Mr. I. W. Williams), at an inquest at Walwa yesterday, announced that he was unable to say how Mrs. Elizabeth Ann White, "The Pines," Walwa, met her death. A car in which deceased and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →McKAY and Talbot Found Guilty on Two Charges No Evidence Called Trial of Sydney Men Court's Jurisdiction Challenged Auckland
At the conclusion of the Crown evidence against Gordon McKay, aged 43, and James Talbot, aged 38, of Sydney, who are charged with setting fire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Notorious Wartime Conscription Dodger Returns Home—to Gaol New York, May 26
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, America's most notorious war-time conscription dodger, who returned after 19 years’ exile, was immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wymah Resident Fined by Albury Court
Tom Tyson Phillips, of Wymah, who was charged at Albury Court of Petty Sessions yesterday with having driven an unregistered motor truck, and not…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"No Flies on You!” Judge s Estimation of Prisoner Story of Gaol Privileges Melbourne
"There's no doubt about you. To use a colloquialism, there are no flies on you, Little!" This remark by Judge Richardson…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Officers Charged “Danger Lamp” Removed Police Allegations Melbourne
Two military and one naval officer were charged with the larceny of a lamp at Prahran watchhouse last night, as a sequence to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Taxi Driver’s Death Youth on Murder Charge Brisbane
In Brisbane police court to-day, Derwent Evans Arkinstall, aged 18, electrician’s apprentice, was remanded on a charge of having murdered Howard…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Suspect Leads Police to Where Booty Buried All Money Found Payroll Robbery Sequel Mildura
Emil Henry Opperman, aged 25, a linesman, was charged at the Mildura police court yesterday with having, with violence, robbed Erie Allan…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Arrest in Albury Leads to Another in Sydney Suspect Apprehended in Hotel Here Post Office Robbery Recalled Man’s Alleged Confession to Police
Following the arrest in dramatic circumstances in an Albury hotel on Saturday afternoon of a recent arrival to the town, the C.I.B., Sydney, was communicated with and detectives yesterday apprehended a suspect in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Has Key to Her Identity Been Found? Alice Nicholson? Was that “Pyjama Girl’s” Name? Victorian Police Pursue New Line of Inquiry Melbourne
Police are hopeful that Australia's No. 1 murder mystery—the “pyjama girl” murder—will be solved as the outcome of investigations now being…
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