Gaol Plot Smashed
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Prompt action by prison officials is believed to have foiled an underworld plot to release the…
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Girl’s Outburst in Court
SYDNEY, Thurs.: A 21-year-old girl sentenced today to six months’ gaol for stealing ran up and down the Central police…
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ADELAIDE, Fri.: Well-known company director, studmaster and racehorse owner, William Edward Mackay, 45, of Manningham, was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Youth on Bond Fined for Stealing
A 16 year old youth who was fined 10/ on each of six stealing charges at Albury Court on Thursday by Mr Smith, SM, had previously…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Attempted Criminal Assault on New Australian
MAITLAND, Fri.: A truck driver, Mervyn William Kay, 25, charged with attempting to rape a New Australian, was sentenced…
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CANBERRA, Fri.: The Attorney General (Mr Spicer) announced today that Cabinet had decided to recommend to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fugitive Gives Himself Up: Murder Charge
Alfred James Hodgkin, 31, farmed, for whom police had been searching a wide area of Bogong ranges since Wednesday, walked…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: Homicide detectives investigating the murder of Sylvia Holmes, 23, who was found strangled…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: Two umpires had police protection when they were threatened by a crowd of more than 500 people at the…
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After a dramatic chase through private gardens and streets at Corryong on Saturday afternoon, police arrested two men and charged them with breaking, entering and stealing from Tintaldra post office and the Tintaldra store…
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Thomas Cook, 56, of Albury, was fined a total of £10 at Albury court yesterday on charges of stealing timber from R. W…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Heavy Fines for Stealing Milk
For stealing householders’ milk Frederick Alfred Gladman, 22, railway employee, was fined a total of £25 in Albury court…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: A 29-year-old typist, formerly employed by the Clothing and Allied Trades Federation, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Albury Police Court Yesterday “Horse Thrown on Top of Utility”
When a horse-drawn vehicle and a utility truck were involved in a collision at Newtown lane, Thurgoona, on February 8, the…
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Although counsel claimed that insulting words and bad language used by a man to the Albury police had been influenced by…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Two Youths Before Corryong Court
Following a sensational chase and double arrest in Corryong on Saturday afternoon by Senior Constable Black and First Constable…
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Miners’ leaders today claimed that a security check had been made by police on pit-top meetings held by western NSW miners last Thursday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accuseds’ Alleged Admissions : Dramatic Court Evidence SYDNEY
Det.-Sgt. Edward John Barnes told the Central Police Court today that William Cecil Mears, 27, had told him that Darcy Ezekiel Dugan, 29, had shot a pay clerk during an alleged pay-roll holdup at Mort’s Dock on February 3…
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MELBOURNE, Tues: A 42-year-old enameler was found guilty by a General Sessions jury today of having stolen £1000 from the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Girl’s Murder Was 13th in Victoria
MELBOURNE, Tues.: Police are still baffled over the murder of 23-year-old Sylvia, Holmes, whose lightly clad…
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