Man Collapses When Sentenced to Death
SYDNEY, Wed.: A 63-year-old man collapsed in the dock at Central Criminal Court today when sentenced to death…
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Fines totalled £28 in Tallangatta Court
Fines totalling £28 were imposed by Mr. J. C. Bell, SM, in Tallangatta Court yesterday. Thomas Pink, store-keeper,…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: Police Commissioner Delaney has directed senior officers to give proper supervision to…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: Police are satisfied that the gunman who murdered a man near St. Kilda Junction last night did so through jealousy over a woman. They believe the killer is…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: Detectives investigating the murder of Thomas Fogarty 33, who was shot in Barkly st., St. Kilda, on…
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CANBERRA, Thurs.: Breaches of security in connection with mining and treatment of uranium at Rum Jungle, Northern Territory, can be punished by imprisonment up to 20 years…
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In Wodonga Court yesterday Terrance Ralph Callanghan, “Berrycourt,” and Robert Allan Lowden, Sackville street. Albury,…
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Mother of a man who had pleaded guilty to breaking, entering and stealing, while on a good behaviour bond, gave a guarantee…
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Two petitions for divorce were heard in the Hay District Court on Wednesday by Judge O'Sullivan, who found in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man was prepared to enter into “100 years’ bond,” but was sent to gaol
SYDNEY, Thurs.: A man told Judge Renshaw in Quarter Sessions today that He would enter into a “100 years’ bond” if the judge would not gaol him for a breach of a good behavior bond…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Serial Story Alias Basil Willing a thrilling adventure in multiple murder
THE STORY: A small, unobtrusive man follows Basil Willing into a tobacco shop, objects to the price of a pack of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?] Airman on Murder Charge Nurse stabbed to death with bayonet; another wounded
PERTH, Thurs.: An intruder broke into a Subiaco nursing home early this morning and stabbed a 19-year-old nurse to death and seriously wounded her room-mate. Later an airman was charged with murder…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →In Albury and Wodonga Police courts yesterday Man alleges constable hit and kicked him
A man alleged in Albury Police Court yesterday that a constable had hit and kicked him. The allegations were made by William John…
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PERTH, Fri., A remand of eight days was granted to the police when Duncan McColl Morton, 22. of RAAF Station…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.; Charged the City Court this morning with having, on March 17, murdered Thomas George…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: A former company director, who had saved his firm thousands of pounds with an efficient system of cost accounting, appeared at the Quarter Sessions today charged with embezzling £15,441…
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TOKIO, Sun.: An Australian court-martial yesterday found Private Ian Dowling Cupit guilty of the murder of an American…
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DARWIN, Sun.: Police and Security officers guarded 13 Japanese at Darwin airport tonight while they were awaiting…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Fired at migrants’ hostel deliberately set, police believe
MELBOURNE, Sun.: Police are almost certain that two mysterious fires which broke out at Brooklyn migrant hostel last night and today were deliberately started. Following the outbreaks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Allegedly “cyanided” fish man sentenced; will appeal
WANGARATTA, Mon: Believed to be the first case of its kind heard in Victoria, a man was sentenced to two months’ gaol for having allegedly “cyanided” fish in the Fifteen-Mils Creek at Wangaratta…
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