“Monster” Sentenced to Life
BOLZANO (Italy). Wed.: Found guilty of having tortured, raped and murdered a young Italian school teacher in 1946,…
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Items of News Rutherglen Wool Theft
No arrest has been made in the wool theft from Rutherglen railway yards early on Tuesday morning. Nine bales disappeared from…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: Mr. Justice Clancy late this afternoon discharged the jury bearing the John Frederick (“Chow”) Hayes murder trial. He did this when the jury announced it could not…
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WELLINGTON (NZ). Wed.: The NZ Government has amended the controversial Police Offences Amendment Bill…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Wireless patrol police surrounded a house in Ross st, Port Melbourne this afternoon, after a…
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Thieves entered the Rutherglen railway yards early on Tuesday morning, and stole nine bales of wool, valved at…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A machine operator who pleaded guilty to having indecently assaulted his 13-year-old…
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In the Legislative Assembly Mr. Geoff Crawford (C.P., Barwon) asked the Premier (Mr. McGirr) when summer uniforms…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: The Royal Commission on Liquor today asked Inspector John Young, of the Metropolitan Licensing…
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At the Corowa Court yesterday, before Mr. Blackmore, S.M., Bradman Leo Richardson was charged with stealing. Mr…
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The N.S.W. police were grossly underpaid, declared Mr. G. R. Crawford (C.[?]) in the Legislative Assembly. The…
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Police alleged £2000 worth of goods was stolen on Thursday night in Henty railways yards…
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SYDNEY, Fri: A 23-year-old bricklayer who strangled a woman whom he was escorting after a drinking party was sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment by Mr. Justice Clancy in the…
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[?]NEY, Sun.: Investigations [?] the Bennett and Wood pay[?] robbery last Thursday took [?] turn today with the…
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CAIRO, Sun.: Egyptian police armed with Sten guns raided a Socialist “liberation unit” training camp in the desert behind the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Seek Baby’s Mother
SYDNEY, Sun.: Police are searching for the mother of an eight-months-old baby girl found strapped to a seat in the…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sun.: Police lost night disclosed details of the attempted hold-up on Thursday night in which Francis Henry Moss, 25, of Western Australia, was shot and killed…
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HONG KONG, Mon.: Found guilty of charges of the maltreatment and murder of infants, two French Canadian Roman Catholic…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Returned Soldier Fined For Stealing
A returned soldier of both wars was last week fined £3, in default, six daysâ hard labour when he pleaded guilty to…
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Detectives and Rutherglen police have made no arrest yet following the theft of nine bales of wool, valued at £1000, from…
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