Walbundrie Court Man took car: fined £20
A man who took a car and later abandoned It seven miles from Walbundrie was fined £20 when he appeared in Walbundrie…
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Migrant tote ticket forger sent to gaol
MELBOURNE, Fri.: A Lithuanian migrant who forged totalisator tickets worth £201, was gaoled for three months…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Pensioner Freed on Murder Charge
MELBOURNE, Fri.: A Criminal Court jury tonight found John Charles Wilson, of Officer, Gippsland, not…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Court holds shares were legal gift
MELBOURNE, Fri.: A Brisbane company manager today won a High Court appeal arising oat of a dispute over the allocating off…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In Corowa Court Three men each fined £40 for using car
In Corowa Police Court this week before Mr Quiggin. SM. Kevin Esmond Stockdale, 23, Albert st., Corowa, Desmond…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Court parts “Trammie” from 16th wife— “I am through with marriage”
LOS ANGELES, Fri.: Francis Von Wie, 66-year-old “Ding Dong Daddy,” of the San Francisco Tramways, for the first time in 49 years was left without a wife yesterday as his 16th marriage was annulled…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Playboy faces gaol term of 60 years
NEW YORK, Sun.—An all-male jury last night found Minot Jelke, 23-year-old heir to three million dollars (about £1,339,386), guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Youth Charged with Stealing From Log Cabin
A 16-year-old boy appeared at Corowa Court yesterday morning on charges of stealing a quantity of clothing and a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Must Stay in Gaol
MELBOURNE, Mon.: Leave to appeal by Reginald Edward Clifford Tuttleby, 47, invalid, pensioner, against his conviction and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Life Term for “Body in the Sea Murder”
BRISBANE, Mon.: Arthur Ernest Holliday, 42, was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor in the Criminal Court tonight on a charge of having wilfully murdered Southport taxi-driver, Athol McCowan. McCowan’s body was found in the sea…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No request yet to open Kerr murder case
MELBOURNE. Mon.: The State Government has received no official request to re-open the Kerr murder case…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Corowa Court of Petty Sessions Fines for Illegally Using Car
At the Corowa Court of Petty Sessions held on Thursday last, February 26, 1953, before Mr. Guiggin, S.M., Kevin Esmond…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Albury Court Yesterday Prosecution alleges that weighbridge dockets were falsified
Allegations that transport drivers and operators had paid certain railway weighbridge officers to falsify the loaded weight of their vehicles while carrying goods from Sydney to Melbourne or return, were made in Albury Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →“Hired Men to Murder Wife”
BUTLER (Penn.), Tuesday: Three men yesterday confessed that a mechanic had paid them on the “instalment plan”…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Melbourne Murder “Girl Kept to Herself”
SYDNEY, Tues.: Betty Jones, who was shot to death by a man in a street in Melbourne this morning, “kept to herself” when she lived at a private hotel here, residents of the hotel said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court settles lottery win dispute
MELBOURNE, Wed.: The Full High Court today settled a dispute between two Dutchmen over a £12,000 NSW lottery…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police ultimatum on street parking in Albury
The much discussed topic of angle and parallel parking was brought to a head at last night’s meeting of Albury City Council when the Police Department informed council it would alter the present method to parallel parking in Dean street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Estate agent tells court of dealings with Reginald Doyle : bankruptcy examination
SYDNEY, Wed.: Reginald Aubrey Doyle appeared to have two offices in State Parliament House, a witness said in the Bankruptcy Court today. The witness, George Malcolm Willmore, city real estate agent, said…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Albury Police Court Yesterday Man fined £35; made false entries in weight dockets
One man was fined £35 and another committed for trial on charges of making false entries in railway weighbridge books with intent to defraud when they appeared before Mr. Quiggin, S.M., in Albury Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Return of Parallel Parking Storm of protest aroused by Police ultimatum
A storm of protest has been aroused over the ultimatum of the Police Department to Albury to return to parallel parking of cars in Dean street. The deportment, in a…
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