Rivals [?] to Court
PANAMA CITY, Thurs : Panama’s two con[?]ers for the Presi[?]ency of the Republic are Preparing to refer their [?]ival…
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Minor Court Matters
Alexander Bede Crocker, 46 years, labourer, of Leeton, was arrested by Constable Rapley on November 22 and charged with…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: By direction of Mr Justice Maxwell, a jury in the Central Criminal Court today acquitted John Wardrope…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Detectives Now Discard Murder Theory
MELBOURNE, Fri: After an exhaustive examination of circumstances of the death of James Creely, 59, of Gold st, Clifton Hill, whose baby was…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Police Move in Presidential Wrangle
PANAMA, Friday : Latest development in the wrangle over the Presidency in Panama is the announcement by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man’s Strange Life and Stranger Death Puzzle Police
PARIS, Fri.: The strange life and stranger death of 62-year-old amateur magician, who collected…
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Brisbane, Sun.: Police last night charged a man and his wife with murder. after the death of a young woman in Brisbane…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: In the Central Criminal Court today two Lithgow laborers pleaded not guilty to a charge of having…
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COONAMBLE, Mon.: A 25 year old laborer was charged at Coonamble today with having attempted to murder his wife early…
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LAGOS (Nigeria). Mon.: Police wounded three Africans on Saturday when they opened fire on rioters and looters at Onitsha…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Excessive Drinking and Gambling Charged Against Cecil Sharpley MELBOURNE
CECIL SHARPLEY, former top Red, had been expelled from the Communist Party following complaints of excessive drinking and gambling and molestation of women, Edward Fowler Hill, State secretary and member of the Central Committee of the Communist…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Top-Ranking Govt. Engineer Fails To Appear In Court LITHGOW
CHIEF Railway Construction Engineer at all N.S.W. Government power stations, Evelyn Percival Boaden, of Sydney, who has been charged with stealing and illegal possession, failed to appear in Lithgow court today to answer the charges…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: Convicted of an attack which resulted in the death of a 78 years old pensioner, John McCann, 26, and…
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WAGGA, Toes: Stanley Kennedy, 21, laborer, of no fixed abode had been remanded at Gonlburn on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Man Wounded by Police Bullets
MELBOURNE, Tues.: A man disturbed when attempting to break into the Brighton railway station, was captured by police…
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MELBOURNE, Wed: Two men and a woman, charged with murder, were present in custody, at the City Morgue today,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →First Time in Australia Plea of Guilty to Murder Charge. Sydney
A CRIMINAL Court judge today accepted for the first time in Australia a plea of guilty to a murder charge and sentenced the accused to death. Edward Richard Bolck, 27, laborer, of Amherst st, Cammeray,…
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MUNICH, Thursday : Johann Reichardt, Hitler’s leading public executioner, told a Munich Denazification Court yesterday that…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Three Remanded on Rings Stealing Charge
MELBOURNE. Thursday: Staney Robins, 47. Leslie Quigley, 31, and Robert Cornell, [?]6, all of Watsonia Camp, were remanded…
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LITHGOW, Thursday : Mary Swan (21) was today charged in Lithgow court with the attempted murder of her…
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