Alleged Assault and Robbery in Police Patrol Van Barrowman Gaoled Sydney
Peter Kelly, aged 22. a barrowman, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment at Quarter Sessions to-day on a charge of having assaulted Charles…
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Owed Company £23,000 John Woolcott Forbes Allegations Made in Court Sydney
That John Woolcott Forbes owed the Scottish Loan and Finance Company Ltd. £23,000 and that Albert Levitus had given instructions…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →History Made in Divorce Court Paternity Blood Test Doctor’s Interesting Evidence Sydney
According to counsel, the first occasion on which evidence of blood tests had been given in a divorce court in Australia to determine the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Items of News Albury Drover Charged with Alleged Capital Offence
At the Albury Police Court yesterday morning, Alan Gordon Webster. 30. drover, was charged with having committed a capital offence against…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Stork” Hendry Has Win in Court Sydney
A Macquarie Street specialist, and former middleweight boxing champion of an Irish university, Edward Haslett Fraser, proceeded…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sent for Trial After Eight Days in Court Wollongong
After a [?] eight days, David Risk aged [?] Ernest Sidney [?] aged [?] and George Percival [?] were charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wild Melee Police and Chinese 47 Arrests Made Men Refused to Take Ship to Sea Sydney
A series of clashes occurred between Chinese members of the of an overseas freighter and 20 police at a Sydney wharf…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Blank Sheet of Paper Director Signed Name Doctor’s Story to Court Sydney
Continuing his evidence in the Woolcott Forbes conspiracy case to-day, Dr. I. H. Sender, of Macquarie st., admitted having…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Charged with Double Murder Wellington (N.z.)
Charged with the murder of Alice Hamilton, aged 2 V, and Lloyd Morgah, aged 15, whose bodies were found at Waikano, on April 22, Douglas Herbert…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Missed £1000 Through Traffic Jam; Gaol Follows SYDNEY
Yielding, according to police evidence to sudden temptation, Frank Frewin aged 16. stole [?] from the Gladesville shop of G. J. Coles and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Not to Hew Coal! Sydney
The suggestion reflects on the men[?] capacity of the person who made [?] said the Chief Secretary (Mr. Tong), in the Legislative Assembly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Divorce Proceedings Remitted Issues Tried in District Court
In the District Court yesterday, His Honor judge Stacy tried remitted issues in divorce in proceedings Arthur Lindsay Laing v. Kathleen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cigarettes, a Car, and Woman’s Court Action SYDNEY
In the Causes Court to-day witnesses described a robbery on a. Sydney wharf, following which a car and more than 50,000 cigarettes were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Magistrate Warns Communists Wellington
In fining a waterside worker £10 to-day for having placed Communist Party stickers on a ship’s cargo at Auckland, the magistrate at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Confidence Trick Cattle Breeder Sentenced Once Lived in Australia London. May 3
Edward Michael Cavendish, aged 51. a cattle breeder, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for having obtained £2000 from John William Kerr…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Claimed He Could Be Kept in Gaol for Life Sydney
Joseph Burgess, who had been sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, declared an habitual criminal, and ordered to be kept in a reformatory…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Quarry Death Mystery a Breadcarter’s End Murder or Accident? Melbourne
The [?] of Hamilton [?] aged 24, breadcarter, of [?] in a quarry at Oakleigh on Wednesday night has not yet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Search for Green Car and Missing Girl Sydney
Police in N.S.W. and Queensland arc searching for a small green car, in which the missing 20-year-old Sydney society girl. Lucy Brown Craig, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dangerous Driving Alleged Taxi-driver Retains Licence Drove Through Dean St at -35 m.p.h., Police Say
Found [?] on a charge of having driven In a manner dangerous to the public, Boy Vernon Brain, last driver, of Albury. was not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four Japanese Charged by Americans Honolulu. May 4
Four Japanese subjects are being held to appear before a Grand Jury on charges of sailing sampans in the prohibited area of Pearl Harbor, where…
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