Death Sentence Commuted I to 15 Years' Gaol Melbourne
The State Executive Council, presided j over by tho Lieutenant .Governor (Sir Fredrick Mann) to-day commute to 15 years' imprisonment, with the benefit of the…
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Court Missioner Clashes with S.M. SYDNEY
After an argument with the presiding magistrate, William Desmond Creagh. a well-known notice court missionary, was charged with contempt…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Let Police Decide Petrol Rationing "Premium for Liars" in Present Scheme
That police officers in country districts should be authorised to determine the ration allowed to motorists according to the merits of individual…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Austral Pictures Bairnsfather's Old Bill To-morrow (Wednesday) "North West Mounted Police" Next Week-end
Old Bill the famous cartoon character created by Capt Bruce Bairnsfather during the last war, will spring to life on the screen at the Rox…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cold-blooded Murder by Nazis London, September 16
Ten helpless prisoners in Paris were shot in cold blood to-day by the Nazis. This act of savagery and brutality is officially described as a reprisal for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“I Might As Well Die in Gaol” Sydney
After she had been committed to prison for contempt of the Bankruptcy Court to-day by Judge Lukin. Mrs. Elizab[?]th Gladys Beer sobbed, “I might…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Must Report to the Police. Sydney
Mrs. Andrews, wife of Jack Andrews, aged 25, of the R.A.A.F.. who is charged with wounding with intent to murder her, said at the Parramatta…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Fourth Internationale” Mentioned in Court Sydney
When Allan Brander Thistlewayte. aged 26, accountant, unsuccessfully appealed against this conviction on three charges under the National Security…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Listened in to Police Broadcast, Is Allegation Sydney
Detectives said in the Central police court to-day that, after arresting three men. they went to a house where a woman was lying beside a radio tuned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Despicable Theft
A visitor to the cemetery informs that recently two vases have b[?] stolen from the grave of a child Deniliquin cemetery. This is probe[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Indecent Behaviour And Assaulting Police
In the Court of Petty Sessions, before Messrs. Drury and Johnston, J.P.'s, on Wednesday, William Farrell, military guard, was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers Will Only Be Charged For Water Used Minister’s Letter to Mr. Lawson
The following is a copy of a letter received by Mr. Lawson, M.L.A., from Hon. W. F. Dunn, Minister for Agriculture: “ With reference to your recent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Strange Court Story Auckland (N.z.)
Describing the case as a most ex[?]dinary one, a judge in the Supreme Court to-day placed Brian Edwards. aged 27. on probation for three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Austral Pictures 'North West Mounted Police' Technicolour Production This Week-end
Produced in glorious colour, with an unusually big cost of screen favourites headed by Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Robt…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Huns Murder the Belgians London. Sept. 18
Berlin newspapers reveal that the German reign of terror has been extended to Belgium. Eleven Belgians were executed yesterday for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Germans Murder Five Dutchmen London, Sept. 21
Five Dutchmen have been shot by the Germans for having aided a British airman, who made a forced landing In Holland, according to a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Years’ Gaol for Youth Sydney
At the Central Criminal Court today Lionel Francis Jennings, aged 19. who had been an inmate of a mental hospital, was sentenced to five years’…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Employment Agent in Court
Although repeated requests had been made of him to apply for a licence as an agent, Neil Anthony Hunter, of Dean St., had failed to do so said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Child Murder Accused to Stand Trial Next Monda
The trial of William Fisher, 65, Printer, who is charged with the murder of Jeanette Walsh, aged 4 years, on July 9, was stood over at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vagrancy Charge Fails Man’s Allegations Against Police
“You appear to the heading back along the old track,” the magistrate in Albury Police Court (Mr. J. Beavers) told Edward Batrick Matthews, laborer, when he…
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