Arrests Follow Alleged Big Cigarette Theft
MELBOURNE, Tues.: Police investigating the theft of 50,000 English cigarettes and other goods from the SS Fordvale, arrested…
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Organiser on Assault Chrge
LITHGOW, Wed.: An organiser of the Entertainment Committee of the Communist-dominated Lithgow Miners’ Area Committee…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: Committed for trial on a charge of the murder his cousin, 32-year-old gardener, Ronald Albert Loveday,…
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SYDNEY, Wed,: A man told Ryde Coroner (Mr Gibson, SM) today how his daughter’s estranged husband had dragged her into the…
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MUNICH, Wed.: Police and Jews clashed today in hand-to-hand fighting in which both police and Jews were…
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DRIVER of the motor lorry involved in the accident at Lavington on July 18 wherein a 19-year-old Sydney youth was killed told him he had had three brandies which “affected him considerably,” a police…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: A summons was issued in the Central Police Court today against Stanley Moran, of Short St., Balmain,…
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At the Court of Petty Sessions at Corowa yesterday several Corowa milk vendors appeared before Mr. Quiggin, Magistrate, on charges by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Woman’s Two ‘Husbands’ Sit Together in Court
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Both “husbands” of Mrs Edna Florence May Abdullah, 36, of Temora, sat together in the Divorce…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Charged in the City Court today with , having conspired to remove a 15-year-old girl from the care of…
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MELBOURNE, Friday: An appeal by a 55 year-old former woman estate agent against her conviction and sentence to nine…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: Non-commissioned police officers today were granted a £30 a year wage increase by the president of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wangaratta Unionists Told :— Mass Murder to Use Soldiers Underground Wangaratta
MR. F. C. OAKLEY, Wonthaggi mines examiner, told a gathering of local unionists that it would mean mass murder to employ troops in underground mines because they were inexperienced and had no…
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LONDON, Sun.: Wladyslaw Gurgacz, a Catholic priest; said to have led an underground “army of Polish independence,”…
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MADRAS. Sun.: Lieut-Col G. S. Gill, Inspector-General of Madras Prisons, was injured with other prison officials when 355…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.: Affidavits made by imprisoned union leaders in support of applications to purge their contempt of…
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It was learned, today that a first-class constable and a probationary constable may be charged with the bashing…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: Two police constables suspended from pay and duty today by the Police Commissioner (Mr Scott) will…
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APPLICATIONS from all of the eight union officials now in gaol are expected to be lodged with the Arbitration Court by to-morrow seeking their immediate release…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: Four policemen were allegedly assaulted tonight when they tried to separate four brawling women…
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