Five Years' Gaol for Club Robbers “Alarming Precocity For Crime” MELBOURNE
Five years’ gaol was the aggregate sentence imposed by Judge Stretton, in the General Sessions to-day on Harold William…
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Man Breaks Away From Police Escort and Escapes Melbourne
Breaking away from the police [?] which had brought him to Melbour[?] in [?] with a recent held at [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murder of Wife [?] Intensive Police Hunt an Australian Remanded in N.Z. WELLINGTON
Following the most intensive search for a body in the history of the New Zealand police, Arth[?]r John Patience, aged 48, an Australian,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →74 Charges of Stealing Against Man Gaoled for 18 Months Sydney
No fewer than 74 charges of stealing were preferred against Thomas Henry Walmsly, aged 62, when he appeared at Newtown Police Court to-day. Police…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Disobeyed Orders Gaol For 37 Seamen Serious Complaints About Food Refuted London, August 4
Forty-two seamen and members of the crew of the liner Napier Star were found guilty at the Eastham police court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Indecent Assault at Coreen
As a result of a visit by Corowa and Daysdale police to Coreen on Saturday evening last, following a disturbance after, the football match, a young man…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →53 Executed for Treason Murder of Franco Supporter Madrid, August 6
It is officially announced that fitly-three persons have been executed for complicity in a conspiracy which resulted in the murder of a prominent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girl’s Story at Trial of Man Charged With Killing her Father SYDNEY
As the result of an incident on a farm at Needilup, where George Samuel Powell, farmer, was killed, Richard Wheeler, aged 40, a half-caste dingo…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What Is a Pistol? Problem for Magistrate Melbourne
Is an old nickel-plated revolver, from which the hammer has been removed, a pistol within the meaning of the Firearms Act? This was the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Extensive Thefts From Goods Trains Three Men Sentenced Sydney
Merchandise valued at £3851 had been stolen from goods trains in transit in this State during the first six months of this year, said Railway Detective…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Search for Lost Dog
There is an unusual file at the Albury police station at present, and it concerns the whereabouts of a lost dog. Heartbroken at the loss of the pet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smuggling Refugees Gaol for Captains and Confiscation of Vessels Haifa, August 7
The captain of a Greek schooner, seized when illegal, immigrants were being landed on June 7, has been sentenced to imprisonment for nine…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Salvation Army Officer Saves Youth From Gaol Judge Sympathetic to Plea Sydney
A plea by a Salvation Army officer, Arthur S. Taylor, at Parramatta Quarter Sessions to-day that Richard AlecLambeth, aged 18, who bad pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LABOR M.L.A PROTESTS Police And An Hotel Had Been “Declared” Sydney
Speaking on the motion for the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly to-night, Mr. Shannon. (Labor, Phillip) protested against…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Struggle with Man Two Sisters Allegedly Assaulted Story Told to Corowa Court
At the Corowa police court yesterday, before Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., Hetherington Martin Eddy, of Mulwala, was charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Racehorse Silver Ring Mentioned in Court Case Woman Sues Man for £18 SYDNEY
Conflicting stories concerning £18 were given in the Small Debts Court to-day, when Sylvia Berger, of Waverley, sought the return of this sum…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Affairs of a Company Petition Before Supreme Court John Woolcott Forbes’ Name Mentioned Sydney
Before Mr. Justice Piper in the supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, sitting in Sydney to-day, John Henry Flegler, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attempt to Bribe Jury Court Told of Man’s Alleged Action Two Men to Have Another Trial Melbourne
It was reported to Judge Wasley in General Sessions to-day, by the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. W. St. G. Sproule, K.C.) that an attempt had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Youth Charged with Murder Young Woman’s Death Brisbane
Police last night arrested a 16 year old farm hand and charged him with the murder of Mrs. Rita Grant, aged [?], at a lonely farm house near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sequel to Shooting of a Criminal Two Men Charged Intense Police Inquiries Sydney
Two men were arrested this afternoon on charges of having murdered Guilo Calletti, aged 34, on August 6, and with having had…
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