G. Welsh Retains Police Title
Geoff Welsh, who played splendidly at the Albury Easter tournament, retained his Victorian police singles title at Kooyong yesterday, when he…
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New Zealand Murder Youth and Woman Battered to Death
With their heads brutally battered, Lloyd Moran, aged 15 years, and Mrs. Hamilton, aged 26 years, were found murdered at the side of the road at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“A Matter of Divorce” Strange Story in Coroner’s Court SYDNEY
Evidence of how Arthur Charles Lampshire had been allegedly slain while lying on his back and pleading with another man not to shoot him…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Not Drunk, But Shickered” Doctors Give Conflicting Evidence Charges of Drunken and Dangerous Driving Fail Man Before Wodonga Court
The conflict in evidence of two doctors. In the Wodonga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday was considered by the Police Magistrate (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →“Had Impersonated Doctors” Allegations Against Man Charged With Forgery . SYDNEY
That he had been “married” eight times since 1913 was alleged against David stewart, aged 18 years at Quarter Sessions to-day when he appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Investigations Into New Zealand Murder Wellington (N.z.)
Detectives investigating the murder of Mrs. Allice Hamilton, aged 27 years, and LIoyd Moren, aged 16 years of Walkino, have found a bloodstained…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Woman Baffles Police Swallowed Paper Bearing Name and Address MELBOURNE
Escaping from the grasp of a detective who stopped her in Elizabeth st. city, on March 20, to question her about some parcels she was carrying,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Major Conder To Go Abroad With Second A.I.F. Leave Given by Bankruptcy Court MELBOURNE
Leave to go abroad as a member of the 2nd A.I.F. was granted to Major Walter Tasman Conder, formerly general manager of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Remanded on Theft Charge Perth
Frederick Charles Walker, 29, civil servant, was remanded for eight days in Perth Police Court to-day on a charge of having stolen £5000 from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£500 Theft From Solicitor’s Home Sydney
Jewellery and clothing valued at £500 were stolen from the Centennial Park home of Patrick Donohoe, a well-known city solicitor, over the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Family Murder Child Held on Suspicion Los Angeles. April 5
Abandoning an earlier theory that the mother murdered three of her children and then committed suicide, the police are [?] Davis,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wild Scenes in Victorian Village Constable Draws Pistol To Quell Mob Police Station Stormed at Melton Wireless Patrol Called From Melbourne MELBOURNE
Storming the lock-up [?] at the Melton Police Station, a mob attempted to release a prisoner on Saturday night. When, single-handed,…
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For having stolen a quantity of copper wire from the N.S.W. Government railways, Roy Gaddon, aged 23 years, laborer, of no permanents…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melton Disturbance Five Men Charged with Obstructing Constable Melbourne
Following the incident on Saturday night at Melton when about five men and four women caused a disturbance in the main street, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Noisy Motorists Police Out to Check Them Horn Must Be Sounded Only As Warning of Danger
If a motorist sounds the horn for any other purpose than as a warning of danger he is liable to be paraded before the Police Magistrate and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fixtures Are “Land” in Legal Sense Full Court Determines Much Disputed Point Important Judgment Sydney
A judgment of vital Importance to industrial organizations was given by the State Full Court today on a stated [?] by Mr. Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Search City For Hotel With No After Hours Trade Story Told to High Court Sydney
The suggestion that there was not a hotel in Sydney that did not trade in liquor sales after hours was made in the High Court of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclists Fined al Albury Court
Cecil E. Burgess, who said he had suffered severe head injuries from being struck by a motor car, was charged at Albury Court of Petty Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Acquitted on One Possession Charge But Fined on Another Magistrate’s Warning to Defendant
Leslie James Stewart, aged 41 years, laborer, of West Albury, was found not guilty by the police magistrate at Albury (Mr. I. Beavers) yesterday on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Domain Disturbance References in Legislative Assembly “Communists Entitled to Police Protection?” Sydney
Reference.to, the disturbance in the Domain of Sunday, when soldiers clashed with Communists, was made by Mr. Tully (Lab., Goulburn), in the…
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