Soldier Gets Three Years’ Gaol Attacked Comrade With Broken Glass Pot PERTH
Found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, in which he attacked another soldier with a broken glass beer pot, marking him probably…
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Alleged Remark Concerning Germans Rebuke by Albury Court
“A man ought to belt you. When the Germans get here they’ll straighten you up,” Leslie Collins, aged 27, laborer, a stranger to Albury, is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Girl’s Trip to Albury Ends in Court
Sheila Hyland. aged 23. shop assistant. the pretty daughter of a Sydney boardinghouse-keeper, was charged before Albury Court of Petty Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coroner Returns Verdict of Murder Sydney
The Coroner (Mr. Bromhead) to-day found that Keith Joseph Kessey, aged 24, murdered Miss Aileen Artery, aged 18, and then shot himself on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Inspector of Police Dead Dies Suddenly at Headquarters MELBOURNE
Sub-Inspector Nicholas Daniel Rowe, aged 56 years, collapsed and died suddenly at his work at police headquarters, Russell st., City [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tareutta Man Sentenced for Lighting Fire Near Grass
In the Wagga Police Court yesterday, Stephen J. Buckley, farm laborer, Tareutta, was charged with having Ignited inflammable material…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Guards Shoot Police Panama City, March 17
United States army officials state that three sentries intercepted and disarmed two plain-clothes Pan-American officials inside the conal zone. They…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wild Words Alleged Young’ Men Before Albury Court
“I’d sooner shoot you than one of [?]men,” Keith Godfrey Ingram, 21, laborer, was alleged to have said to William Elliott, dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sequel to Big Store Window Smashing Story Told in Albury Court
“I would have thought that prior convictions against you would have been sufficient to make you realise that your behavior…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Attempt to Bribe Police Man Convicted and Fined for Offering 10/ MELBOURNE
Convicted of having on March 16, attempted to bribe a member of the police force, William Hayes, of Hawkings st., Preston, was fined £3 in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bellevue Hill Shooting Charge Preferred Husband Bail Refused on Application of Police Sydney
On a charge of having shot at George White with intent to murder him, Edward Riley Sexton, aged 59 years, a painter, was remanded to March 29 in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Constable Describes Organised System of Stealing Cars Sydney
In one night, five cars had been stolen from Bellavue Hill and Bondi and stripped in Centennial Park [?] French’s Forest, stated Constable S. T…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Secret Broadcasts Dutchman Sent to Gaol Rotterdam, March 1[?]
A Dutchman. P. Bakker, has been sent to gaol for six years for having made secret broadcasts to Germany giving weather information. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Dog Came to His Home” Defendant’s Story in Albury Court
Ellis Charles Eddy, [?] residing in [?] street, was fined £4 at the Albury Court yesterday for having had a sheep dog,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Carl Huber, Mourned as Dead, Re-appears in Albury Amazing Story Revealed to Police
In a lonely section of the Protestant portion of the Albury General Cemetery is a grave containing the remains of one whom many people in the town remembered with affection for his kindly nature, his skill at his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →He Looked Like the Man Allegation in Coroner’s Court SYDNEY
Leslie Ernest Kennedy was something like the man who fired a shot at Alexander Robert Henry Miller during a disturbance at the Covent Garden…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mother Arrested on Murder Charge
Following the discovery of the body of a male child floating in the main irrigation channel at Griffith on Wednesday, police officers visited…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Eight Years’ Gaol for Stabbing North Melbourne Manslaughter MELBOURNE
Mr. Justice O’Bryan in the Criminal Court to-day sentenced James Simpson, [?] wharf laborer, of [?] street. North Melbourne, to eight years’…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Committed for Trial on Murder Charge Sydney
The City Coroner (Mr. Ora[?]) to-day committed Leslie Ernest Kennedy, aged 27 years, clerk, for trial on a charge of having murdered Alexander Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Young Women on Murder Charge Arrested at Darlington Point
Detective Sergeant Ramus and Constable Mills, of Wagga, Plainclothes Constable Morley, of Griffith, and Constable Hoyer, of…
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