Special Court to Try Man SYDNEY
The Government has proclaimed a special court at outburst on February 17 for the Trial of Frederick Lincoln McDermoll. who was charged with…
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Laborers in Trouble Two Before Albury Court
Phomphus Harold Witt, aged 2[?], laborer, was fined a total of £12 in default total Imprisonment of 2[?] days with hard labor in the Albury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Women Firm on Gas Plans Promised Police Protection MELBOURNE
Women volunteers of the United Women's Movement are not afraid of the unions’ threat to enrol strikers’ wives and other women to prevent them unloading gas coal at the wharves and taking it to the gasworks, Mrs. Maine, secretary of the movement, said today. They had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Battle Against Crime Slump In London As Result Of Police Action
The vigorous drive against crime by the London police which was announced some months ago has already shown striking results. Compared…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All Leave Stopped for London Police Anxiety Mounts As Transport Strike Extends LONDON
Several hundred troops and more than 30 army lorries escorted by motor cycle outriders invaded Smithfield Market this morning to begin the distribution of foodstuffs held up by carriers’ strike. Soon afterwards the Central Strike Committee decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jewish Terrorists Blow Up Police Station and Post Office Four Policemen Killed and 62 Others Injured Car Used To Carry Bomb Into Compound LONDON
Terrorists blew up the police station and adjoining post office at Haifa on Sunday afternoon A police casualty list states that two British policemen and two Arab temporary constables were killed and 50 Arab or Jewish constables and 12 British police were injured. Two of the British policemen were critically injured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Laborer Fined by Culcairn Court Stealing Was Alleged
Frederick Edwin [?] laborer, aged 36. pleaded guilty to two charges of stealing when he was before the Culcairn court on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Body in River Inquest Man Charged With Murder PERTH
Evidence that she found wet clothes folded on the floor of a wardrobe in a room at the Globe Hotel, Perth, on December 12, was given by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Embezzlement Alleged Man Before Culcairn Court
At the Culcairn Court of Petty Sessions on Monday before Mr. E. J. Etherton, P.M., Robert John Hall, aged 33, an ex-goods clerk at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Cannot Find Missing Clothes of Girl BRISBANE
Police are still searching for the missing clothes of Bronia Mary Armstrong, aged 19, whose body was found in a city building on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Youths Vie for Saddle Ownership Lengthy Case in Albury Court
Arrival of four youths at the Albury police station on January 3 with a saddle resulted in an almost day-long hearing in the Court of Petty Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ex-albury Boy’s Achievement Mr. J. V. Barry, K.c., New Justice of the Victorian Supreme Court
One of Albury’s most distinguished former residents, Mr. J. V. Barry, K.C., has risen to fresh heights with the announcement of his appointment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Never to Be Released From Gaol Sydney
State Cabinet today commuted the sentence of death imposed on Mervyn Garvie. aged 39, laborer, for the murder of Cecil John Kelly at Bulli to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Firm Fined £7000 on Prices Charges Man Sentenced; Both to Appeal MELBOURNE
A fine of £7000 was imposed on Goldsbrough Mort, well-known firm of wool-brokers, in the City Court today, on seven charges of having traded in lucerne hay above the fixed prices during the recent drought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deaths of Little Boys; Mother on Murder Charge SYDNEY
An inquest was opened today into the deaths of two children—Grahame Wright, aged 4, and Ian Wright, aged four months…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reformatory Escapees Gaoled Two Before Beechworth Court
At the Beechworth Court of Petty Sessions yesterday before Mr. J. C. Bell, P.M two men were sentenced to gaol terms for escaping from legal custody at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albury Council to Oppose Police Ban on Road Races
Support for opposition to the ban which the Police Commissioner of N.S.W. proposed to put on all motor racing in the State, irrespective of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nazi Suicides As Police Try to Arrest Him London
The Lisbon correspondent of Reuter says that Dr. Karl Wissmann, former German Press Attache in Lisbon, whom the police have been seeking…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Labourer Fined By Culcairn Court Stealing Alleged
Frederick Edwin Ratcliffe, labourer, aged 36, pleaded guilty to two charges of stealing when he was before the Culcairn court on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court of Petty Sessions
At the local Court of Petty Sessions on Monday Cyril John Harris, a laborer aged 57 years, pleaded guilty to a charge of having…
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