Gaol Term Interrupts Proposed Voyage to Aust
LONDON, Sun.: Three men and a woman, who wanted to sail to Australia in a 52ft yacht, appeared in the…
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Two Men on Murder Charge
LITHGOW, Sun.: Two men have been charged with the murder of Jack Gelek, 70, who died night…
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LONDON, Sun.—Four people were killed and seven police injured when police fired on a crowd near Calcutta yesterday…
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With the aid of spotlights, Wagga police and civilians searched rugged country near Tarcutta last night for a boy…
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PRAGUE, Sun.: The Yugoslav newspaper “Nova Borba”, published in Prague, reported that Tito’s secret police had arrested…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: A young man [?] a first class [?] walked into Redfern police station tonight and dumped a…
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LITHGOW, Mon.: At the police court today Frank Edward Whye, 39, a half-caste, and John McCann, 27. of Marrangaroo. were…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: John Lilley, licensee of the Commercial Hotel, Hopetoun, who was committed for trial on a…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: Police today abandoned a search for the origin of “mystery voices” reported to have been heard…
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IN the Court of Petty Sessions at Hay last Wednesday, Mr. E. M. Debenham, S.M., imposed fines of from £1/10/ to £7/10/ on nine occupiers for failure to suppress and destroy rabbits. When one defendant pleaded the shortage of…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: Hugh Hansen Young, 60. said by police to have attempted to take his own life, was remanded…
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BATAVIA, Tues.: Two hundred Indonesian prisoners made a mass [?] break from the S[?]ntar pri[?] Sumatra, on Sunday night…
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TEL AW, Toes.: A man who created uproar in the Israeli Parliament yesterday by pointing a Sten gun at…
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Police in two States are searching for a man who escaped from Beechworth Mental Hospital yesterday morning…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: More than 60 detectives are prepared to shoot it out, if necessary, with the murderer of 32 years old…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: Handcuffed together, and under heavy police [?], two young men who escaped from Long Ray gaol on…
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WARSAW, Wed.: The Appeal Court at Lodz today sentenced to death two Polish Roman Catholic priests—Father Roman…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: Rex Llewellyn Fiannagan, 33, cook was remanded until September 22 at Manly Court today…
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SYDNEY, Wed: Mr Isles, SM, has been asked to stale a case, probably before the High Court, on his decision which inva[?]…
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PENRITH, Thurs.: On a charge of stealing equipment valued at £10,000 from Wallgrove military camp, Ross…
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