Appeal in missing bride murder conviction
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Mon.: The Court of Appeal today began hearing of the appeal of George Cecil Horry, 41, tailor’s…
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Man Slashed Himself, Police Say
BRISBANE, Mon.: A man Who claimed that razor slashers attacked him in Brisbane last night confessed this afternoon…
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STOCKHOLM, Mon: Whether it is murder if a hypnotist easts a spell over another person, compelling that person to commit…
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At the Corowa Court on Thursday before Mr. A. E. Hodgson, S.M., Sydney Taylo was fined 5½ in default…
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SYDNEY, Man.: Police alleged in Central Police Court today that three men and two women had stolen and stripped cars. The defendants, who were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Is It Murder Or Suicide ? Indian’s death in shack fire at Henty (By Our Special Reporter.)
Detectives investigating the death at Henty on Saturday night of an aged Indian hawker, PUTURB SINGH, are not prepared to say that he was murdered. “Until such time as we find a motive for murder we are not prepared to say the old man was done to death,” Det. Sgt. Aldridge,…
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WANGARATTA, Tues.: Norman Frederick Huggett, 29, storeman, and Marjorie Clark, 35, were found guilty of assault…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: Persons guilty of gross cruelty to animals would be liable to imprisonment under amendments to the Cruelty to…
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SHAWNEE TOWN (Illinois), Tues.: Gene Oldha and John Nelson were yesterday charged with having broken into…
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LONDON, Wed.: John O’Connor, 29, an ex-naval stoker, who confessed to strangling and raping his 84-year-old eccentric Belgian…
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SIDNEY, Wed.: Leslie Daniel Slade, 36, engineer, of Darlington, was remanded without bail in the Newtown…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: Police are still investigating the attempt made last night to derail, a suburban passenger…
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Homicide detectives from Sydney CIB, who are investigating the death of Puturb Singh, whose almost unrecognisable…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: The dismissal of a former railwayman, Error Roy McVicar, by the NSW Railways Commissioner was…
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The Federal Rural Conference of the Liberal Party has found that the penalties for sheep stealing are Inadequate…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Two youths were sentenced at Fitzroy court today to a month’s imprisonment each on a charge of…
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SINGAPORE, Thurs.: Communist guerrillas pelted a police patrol with hand grenades in the Kemasek district of Trenganu…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Diggers Spearhead Fierce Allied Korean Assault Autumn Offensive is Under Way
TOKIO, Thurs.: Australian shock troops today spearheaded the United Nations assault along the 40-mile western front in Korea. The Australians are attached to the British Commonwealth…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: Police tonight arrested a 43-year-old East Kew business manager and charged him with the larceny of…
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While on patrol duty in Dean street last night, Sgt. Foley, of Albury police, lost his wrist watch. The watch has a chrome…
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