Callous Shooting Man Arrested and Charged with Murder
A rent collector, Arthur Charles Lampshire, ager 50 years, of Eastwood (Sydney) was killed with a sawn-off rifle at Jannall, near Como, on…
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Building Ordinances Two Cases Before Police Magistrate Defendants Convicted
At the Corowa Police Court yesterday before Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., George West, of Corowa, was proceeded against by the Health Inspector of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Illegal French, Organisation; Seven Members Sentenced Paris, March 3
A military court has sentenced seven members of the former Work and Peasants’ Social Party can illegal party formed by Communists…
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Robert Edward Hepburn, aged 5 printer, was remanded at Kogaral police court until to-morrow on a charge of having murdered…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Listened to Foreign Broadcasts; Germans Sent To Gaol AMSTERDAM, March 3
Two German brothers at Hamburg have been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment each for listening to the British Broadcasting Corporation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Downward Path Judge Warns Lads Just Escape Gaol Sydney
“You are building formidable records which are likely to result in serious gaol sentences If you continue on your path of crime.”…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Laborer on Murder Charge Following Street Fight Brisbane
Following the death on Saturday of William Henry Groundstroem, aged 32, single, Edmond James O’Connor, laborer, was charged with the murder of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Restaurant Murder An Arrest Made SYDNEY, Tuesday Morning
Detectives and other police who have been investigating the fatal shooting of Alexander Herbert Henry Miller, in a restaurant early on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Years’ Gaol for Alleged Theft From Widow Melbourne
Judge Macindoc, in General Sessions to-day, sentenced Claude Charles Hore, aged 49, clerk, of Capel St., West Melbourne, to two years’ imprisonment…
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Robert Hepburn, aged 62, was again [?] when he appeared at Kogarsh police court to-day on a charge of murdering Arthur Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Men Remanded on Charge of Murder Sequel to Cafe Shooting Sydney
Loslie Ernest Kennedy, aged 27, clerk, and Leslic John Garrod, aged 31, laborer were charged at the Central Police Court to-day with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Angry Fruit growers Pelt Police With Apples; Opposition to Acquisition Scheme MELBOURNE
Angry scenes were witnessed this morning at the Victoria market when fruitgrowers, resenting the control of marketing by the Apple and Pear Board, scattered on the ground apples that had been bought by retsilers from the board agents…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Girl Alleges Naked Man Thrashed Her Sales Manager Charged a Remarkable Story
Allegations that she had been taken to house at Middle Brighton on the night of February 13 by a man who stripped himself naked, and pulling…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Government’s Attitude Towards Police Promotions Attacked Sydney
The refusal of the Chief Secretary Mr. [?] to permit the production of three highly-graded police officer was attacked by Mr. W. F. Dunn…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Told Actress She Had No “Sex Appeal” Allegation in Court Theatrical Company Sued Sydney
The hearing was commenced in the District Court to-day of an action in which Marjoric Gordon and [?] Murphy, actresses. and…
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[?]ooth license for the St. Patrick’s [?] sports at Deniliquin on March 13 [?]ranted to Howard Rex Watson by [?]vo Beavers, P.M., in the Licensing…
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The rolls of electors of Yanko, Colombo and Billabong Water Trusts and Bullatale and Tuppal Creeks Water Trusts were levied by Mr. Ivo Beavers,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Albanian Charged with Shooting with Intent Shepparton
Charged with having shot Xhezar Ramadon, aged 28, with intent to murder, Rakip Begir, cafe proprietor, appeared in Shepparton court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Detectives Witness Fatal Accident a Manager Charged Melbourne
Hit by a motor car in hawthorn road, Caulfield, last night, Andrew Loughnan,aged 27 years, of Vail St., Armadule, was tossed high, into the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man’s Alibi Fails; Sentenced to Death SYDNEY
Convicted at the Central Criminal Court to-day on a charge of wounding Thomas James Brennan with intent to murder. William Henry Charles…
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