Police Seek “Chimney Charlie”
LONDON. Fri. Police are looking for “Chimney Charlie,” a practical joker, who makes a habit climbing smoke stacks and…
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Man Charged in Hospital Ward
BRISBANE, Sun.: At a special, court in a ward at the Brisbane General Hospital this afternoon, John…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Youth And Girl Arrested For Pivot Rings Theft
LESS than 24 hours after a tray of 14 diamond rings, valued at £680, was stolen from a show window at the Pivot, Dean street, Albury, on Friday afternoon, Albury detectives arrested an attractive…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Looked Other Way!
SYDNEY, Monday : Police stationed throughout the city this afternoon took a “fatherly attitude” to Diggers who had imbibed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Preferred Gaol to Reformatory
MELBOURNE, Tues.: “A reformatory is a place where men go mad and where escapes are common. I would rather do 10…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Widow "Not Hard on the Eye" Goes to Gaol
BRISBANE, Tues.: A 16 stone, [?] tall salesman, who allegedly passed himself off as a “widow about flye feet tall and not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Church Lands And Rates ––Court To Decide
SYDNEY, "Tuesday : An action in which two Roman Catholic archbishops are being sued for un paid rates was stood over for a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man to Be Sentenced; Alleged Axe Attack
MELBOURNE, Th[?] In [?] Supreme Court today [?] [?] found Att[?]ed Antheny Hall, [?] of Lower G[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Show Admission Charged Raised to 3/-
Show admission charges for the main day (Saturday) were increased from 2/ to 3/ by the P. and A. Society at last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Smash Reds' Demonstrations
CALCUTTA, Th[?] Two people were lulled and 12 or more were taken to hospital after police fired on a banned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deniliquin Carrier Appears at Hay Court
[?]eading guilty before the of Petty Sessions in Hay having transported a load eight feet wide without a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Held in Gaol Awaiting Deportation
DARWIN, Friday : A Timor native has beon held in Fanny Bay Gaol for 10 weeks awaiting depertation from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Escapees to Serve Extra Six Months’ Gaol
BATHURST, Friday : Bay Abbott and David S. Murphy, two convicts, who escaped from Bathurst Gaol on Easter Sunday, were…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Lost Over £5900 Gambling Sent to Gaol
MELBOURNE, Fri.; Selwyn Allan Thomas Bennett, 39, a cashier of Caulfield, was today sentenced to three years…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pilot Denies Flying Low Fined In Albury Court
A COMMERCIAL pilot, who has been flying since 1937 and who was described by one the defence witnesses as “better than Sir Charles Kingsford Smith,” was fined £10 and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Sentenced to Death
TEHERAN, Sun.: Two men were today sentenced to death while three other men and two women received long:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Would Gaol Key Racketeers
SYDNEY, Sun.: “Key racketeers are a fungus on society and the State Labor Government should take Immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man on Murder Charge Given Bail
MELBOURNE, Son.: Douglas Archibald Robertson, 22, of Eglinton st., Moonee Bonds, who. is charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Arms Haul by Police
CAIRO, San.: Egyptian police arrested 12 people last night after raiding three houses in a Cairo suburb and unearthing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Use Batons on Berlin Crowd
BERLIN, Sun.: West sector German police using truncheons dispersed demonstrators who tried to march through the American…
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