Girl Screams When Murder Charge Read
LITHGOW, Wed. : A 21 year-old girl collapsed-with a scream before a charge of murder against her could be…
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Two Gaol Escapees Retaken
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Two young men who daringly escaped from the Berrima Gaol yesterday morning were recaptured by…
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MELBOURNE, Thnrs.: Charred with having: driven a motor car on December 2 whilst under the Influence of liquor, Walter…
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SOME, Thursday.: Thousands Italian peasant “Rebels” bowed to police orders yesterday and began a large-scale retreat from…
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His Honour Judge Berne, in the District Court at Hay, yesterday, tried the issues in two divorce, cases remit-ted for local hearing by the Supreme…
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NAPLES, Thurs.: Gulseppe la Marca, an Italian [?] chief who is being tried on Charges of murder, kidnapping…
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SARAJEVO (Yugoslavia), Friday : A Yugoslav Judicial Tribunal today sentenced Aleksei Krizhko, a Russian…
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A 21-YEAR-OLD laborer, Stanley David Kennedy, was today committed for trial on a charge of having murdered Charles Edward Lyons, 79, on November 6…
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PARIS, Sun.: An international police hunt which lasted nearly a year ended yesterday with the arrest in Paris of Louis Actis-Dato…
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ADELAIDE, Sun.: A half man died from a self-inflicted gun wound, and a half-caste woman is in the Wallaroo…
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PERTH, Sunday : The Hall's Creek Court on Native Matters has recommended mercy for two natives who killed an elderly…
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THE jury in the Hay Court of Quarter Sessions on Friday morning, returned a verdict of not guilty in the case in which Alan Leonard Meahan, a young school teacher, formerly of Yanco, was charged with two counts, one of alleged assault…
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When a man named Edward Murphy was killed by a fall down the shaft of the fluospar mine near Walwa some months back,…
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Following complaints during the week end that a wild, unkempt man had been seen moving about in a fur[?]ive manner in the vicinity of…
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SYDNEY,. Mon.: Manager of a Parkes furniture store had thrown himself under a train near Chatswood station the day…
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SYDNEY, Monday.: The High Court ruled today that the employers of a barmaid who threw a glass of beer at a customer,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lack of Interpreters Unfair to Police, Doctors, Hospitals, Dr. Middleton Considers
SOME FORM of interpreting should be available in each district for Displaced Persons, Dr. F. C. Middleton said on Friday at the magisterial inquiry into the death of Stasys Bildusas. This was the second unnatural death of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Final News Round-up Solomon Ravdell's Court Story of His Kidnapping Melbourne
SOLOMON RAVDELL, 69, merchant, said in the District Court today that the voice of a man who visited him after he had been kidnapped sounded like that of Bennie…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Former Coroner Sentenced for Fraud
LONDON, Tues.: Norman Howarth Hignett, a 40 years old solicitor and former coroner — the office boy who educated himself…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Baton Indian Crowd
NEW DELHI, Tuesday: Police made a baton charge outside the Indian Parliament yesterday to disperse a violent crowd of 500…
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