Cattle Theft Sentence MELBOURNE
Charged with the theft of stud cattic valued at £400, Thomas Joseph McLean, aged 19. of Ligar St., Ballarat East, was convicted today and…
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Boy Charged with Killing Father Brisbane
A boy, aged 18, has been arrested for the murder of his father. The arrest followed the finding of the body of Arthur Heywood, aged 71, cane…
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Three pieces of lost properly have collected at Albury police Station—a leather shopping bag, a gold fob watch; and a fishing rod in a container. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Invalid Pensioner Freed on Murder Charge Melbourne
In the Criminal Court tonight Charles Rupert Barclay, aged 40., of Barclay st. Brunswick, invalid pensioner, who was charged with the murder…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Husband Remanded On Wife Murder Charge MELBOURNE
Francis Authorn McGregor Williamson, aged 34. of Ballarat who appeared in the City Court today charged with having murdered his wife,…
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Charged with having murdered George Thomas Coghlan, aged 21, Ella Agnes Startford, aged 37, domestic, was freed at the Central Police Court…
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Charged with the murder of John McMain Mudic, aged 35. barman, whose body was found in a chalk pit on Wokingham Common, Surrey, on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Theft Of Army Materials Alleged CANBERRA
The army is investigating the theft of £60.0110 worth of materials from New Guinea. Mr Rankin ICP. [?] in the House of Representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Albury May Yet Get A New Police Station
Plans and specifications for a new police Station at Albury would be put in hand with a view to the erection of a suitable building as soon as possible. - This assurance was given in the N.S.W. Legislative. Assembly yesterday by the Premier…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smiled When Sentenced To 10 Years’ Gaol SYDNEY
Cecil John Rolls, aged 24. laborer. was to-day sentenced to 10 years’ penal servitude in the Quarter Sessions. He had pleaded guilty to the armed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Theft, Robbery, Fraud CANBERRA
The Auditor-General’s report reveals 141 cases of theft, robbery and fraud, involving ,cash amounting to £917/11/1, and 3130 cases of thefts of stores valued…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cigarettes Quest Ends In 5 Years’ Gaol SYDNEY
Valentine John McCarthy, aged 24 was to-day sentenced to four year’ imprisonment for having maliciously attempted to shoot Demos Eritokritos,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Kill 9 Miners LONDON
The Valencia correspondent of British Associated Press states that nine coal-miners were shot dead when police discovered what they called a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →French Police Prefect Suspended London
Reuter’s correspondent in Paris says that the Ministry for the Interior has announced the suspension from office of Charles Luizet, Prefect of the Paris…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Cordon Around Hall Orderly Protest Meeting SYDNEY
By throwing a cordon of more than 300 police around the Sydney Town Hall at midday today when an organised meeting of 3500 citizens was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japs Involved in Massacre of Australian P.O.W. To Hang “Greatest Mass Murder in Pacific War” Thousands Died Building “Death Railway” In Siam
Five Japanese war criminals have been sentenced to hang by the Australian Military Court at Singapore for participating in what was described as the “greatest mass murder in the Pacific War, the building of the Burma-Siam railway.” The announcement which was made by Lieut,-Colonel D. L. Goslett, said the employment of war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Fire On Rioters LONDON
Several police were injured when the police fired to disperse rioters in Old Delhi today when Sikhs and Moslems clashed on the occasion of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railwaymen Becoming Restive Arbitration Court Delay SYDNEY
Railwaymen view with concern the delay on the part of the Arbitration…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Victoria Now Faces Blackout Engine-drivers’ Threat If Court Judgment Unsatisfactory Members Would Be Withdrawn From All Powerhouses MELBOURNE
Paralysis, which is slowly ruining Victorian industry and altering the people’s way of life, was advanced another step today when the management committee of the Federated Engine-Drivers and Firemen’s Association were empowered by a mass meeting at Yallourn to plunge Victoria into a blackout…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Years Hard Labor Stealing a Cheque and Illegally Using a Car
Judge Byrne at the Narrandera Quarter Sessions on Tuesday of last week said that too often"Judges shed crocodile tears and…
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