S.A. Reds Charged with Sedition London
The Cape Town correspondent of British United Press says that eight chief executives of the South African Communist Party appeared in…
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Fined for Fortune Telling Magistrate Was Puzzled MELBOURNE
Two members of the Light of the Cross Spiritualist Church were each fined £3 in the City Court today for telling fortunes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Young Mother on Murder Charge SYDNEY
Charged with the murder of a newborn baby girl, Ida Lillian Higgins, aged 20, was committed for trial by the City Coroner (Mr. R. M. Stewart)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man’s Alleged Obsession For Trial on Murder Charge SYDNEY
Arthur Redvers Hayne, aged 47, telegraphist, was today committed for trial on a cha[?]ge of having murdered his wife, Louis Elizabeth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Used Tear Gas on Students LONDON
Police three times used tear gas and once charged with lathis to disperse processions of students who demonstrated in favor of the Indo-Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Indonesians Try to Blame Japs Murder of Australian Officers LONDON
The Dutch Newsagency reports that documents in [?] hands of Dutch authorities prove that Indonesian army men murdered three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Constable Dismissed From Force Sequel to Arrest of an Albanian Melbourne
Constable Anthony J. Byrne, aged 23, of Egerton St., Hawthorn, was dismissed from the Victorian Police Force today after he had been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →18 Sentenced to Death London
The Warsaw correspondent of British Associated Press says that military tribunals have sentenced to death 18 persons who arc stated to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Men Allegedly Concerned in 1924 Murder on Trial Rome
The trial began today of four men —former henchmen of Mussolini—who are accused of the murder in 1924 of the Italian Socialist leader, Giacoma…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Pay for Police Rise From £16 to £50 a Year SYDNEY
A new agreement on pay and conditions of police, other than commissioned officers, was announced to-day by the Senior Conciliation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Matteoti Murder Hearing LONDON
The Rome correspondent of the “Daily Express” says that Francesco Giunta giving evidence before the court in which he is being tried with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Driver Charged with Drunkenness Indecent Language Also
At the Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday (before Mr. E. J. Etherton, P.M.), Sidney Arthur Mullins, laborer, aged 38, was charged with driving…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brutal Murder of Aborigine Darwin
The brutal murder of an Ar[?] Land aborigine for the sake of his food, blankets and tobacco, and the attempted murder of his companion,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woman Prefers Gaol to Fine Did Not Register Her Dogs
The mother of a large family told the Magistrate (Mr. Blackmore), at the Junee Police Court that she would go to gaol rather…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hanged For Murder of German Woman LONDON
Driver F. J. Upton, a member of the RASC in Germany, has been hanged in Berlin for the murder of a 62-year-old German woman in the French…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Majority of ACTU Arbitration Court Proposals Rejected Federal Government Stands Firm Will Consider Taxation Demand CANBERRA
Commonwealth Government today rejected the majority of the proposals of the Australasian Council of Trades Unions for a new Arbitration Act to be introduced during next February Parliamentary session…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Criminal Assault on GlRL SYDNEY
Alleged to have been criminally assaulted by a man in the stormwater channel in Auburn this afternoon, a 12 years old girl was treated, by a doctor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →P.M. Appears in Court in Shorts Canberra
With the temperature soaring over the century mark, Canberra Special Police Magistrate (Col. J. T. Goodwin) today appeared in Canberra…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Girl, Arrested at Leading Hotel, Before Court Canberra
Mavis Edna Thiesman. aged 21, of Pott’s Point, Sydney, today received a suspended sentence of one month’s imprisonment at Canberra court…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Girl’s Cemetery Murder Recalled Man Interviewed by Police; No Action SYDNEY
Police investigations early this morning into a report by a taxi driver that a man whom he drove to Newtown cemetery a short time…
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