Tennant’s Creek Shooting Murder Trial at Alice Springs Alice Springs
Central Australia’s second trial of a white man on a murder charge opened to-day, when Ernest James Skene was charged with having fatally shot…
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Mention of Inheritance Of £63,000 in Court SYDNEY
M[?] Victoria Sawdon, aged 46, according to allegations at the Central Police Court to-day, represented to Duncan Cameron that she was entitled…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Torpedo Detector and £280,000 Mentioned in Strange Court Case Wellington (N.z.)
[?] torpedo detector, [?] the British Admiralty for [?] to make-British ships safe from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“A Soldier of the Guard Assaults Sergeant-major” Albury Court Allegation Fined on Two Charges
Frederick James Roberts, aged 58, a soldier of the Home Reservoir Guard, Imbibed too freely on Tuesday evening, and on returning to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charged with Stealing Racehorse
Urana police on Wednesday night arrested a man and charged him with stealing the racecourse Longlands, and a bridle and saddle; also Illegally…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Albury Youth Charged At Benalla Given a Suspended Sentence
At the Benalla Court of Petty Sessions yesterday before Messrs. J. Serpell and T. F. Harrison J’s.P. Kenneth Lloyd Hard[?]e, aged [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aliens Must Register "No Savee' Attitude Ignored Police Prosecutions Threatened Sydney
It was stated to-day by a leading police official that all aliens who failed to register, and those who changed their address without notifying the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Peculiar Court Story British Defence Minister’s Name Mentioned a Torpedo Detector Wellington (N.z.)
While outlining the steps taken to safeguard British trade routes, the British Minister for Co-ordination of Defence (Lord Chatfield)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Assault Case at Local Court
In Petty Sessions at Balranald Court House on the 12th inst. Mr. T. Doolan P. M., adjudicated in an assault case brought against Leslie R. Withers by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man, Charged With Murder, Remanded For Another Trial MELBOURNE
The jury to-night disagreed in the Criminal Court trial of James Simpson, aged 33, waterside worker, of North Melbourne, who was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Assault Called Brutal, Cowardly and Dastardly Junee
Medical evidence that Mrs. Laura Merle Stewart was suffering from a bruised and blackened eye, injuries to the upper jaw and lip and other…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Manslaughter Conviction; Ten Years in Gaol Alice Springs
Judge Wells sent Ernest James Skene to gaol for 10 years to-day for the manslaughter of Michael Leonard Tutty near Tennant’s Creek, on November…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Called Himself a Naval Officer and Sent to Gaol SYDNEY
Anthony Campbell Dreyer aged 40 a ship’s engineer, was at Paddington Police Court to-day sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Seeking Two Soldiers Who Left Darwi[?] Darwin
Two [?] of the Darwin mobile force who disappeared from headquarters and left for the south by a Guinea Airways airliner…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Germany or Australia? Amazing Powers For Military Aliens Before Court Sydney
Obligations of aliens residing [?] Australia towards the National security [?] Act were explained at the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gaol Chaplain Retires Friends Among Prisoners Melbourne
In a week’s time the Rev. W. L. Fenton, aged 87 years, will retire from the position of gaol chaplain at Pentridge where he has served for 24…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Clash with Police Sydney
Hundreds of people completely blocked traffic in George street. Haymarket, last night when police and soldiers clashed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Plot to Poison Gaol Warder Brisbane
An attempt to smuggle cyanide into the Boggo Road gaol on February 12. to poison a warder has been revealed by the State Prison authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Inquiries Still Hampered North Melbourne Shooting Melbourne
Senior Detective S. H. McGuffie. in charge of investigations into the mystery shooting near Victoria Market on Saturday, in which two men were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Confronted With a Knotty Problem SYDNEY
The State Full Court was to-day asked to determine a knotty problem relating to a hotel keeper's licence. The Liquor Act prohibits ail application for…
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