Strike call follows murder
TUNIS, Sun.: Tunsian Nationalist leaders called for a general strike in Tunis today as a protest at the assassination of…
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M.p. Accused of Murder
TEHERAN, Sun.: An Iranian Deputy (Dr Mozzafar Baghai) was accused and. five retired Iranian army officers and their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Search for Masked Thugs
SYDNEY, Sun.: Police are searching for four masked men who last night bashed an elderly couple in their home at Rooty…
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A 24-year-old Wodonga woman who pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing two elder-downs from Mate’s on May 1…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Albury police Court Yesterday Benalla mechanic fined £18 on three charges
A Benalla mechanic was fined a total of £18 on three charges when he appeared before Mr. A. V. Quiggin, S.M., in Albury Court yesterday…
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At Bright Court last Friday, Mr. J. C. Bell, S. M., fined John Sharp, baker. £3 for having an unregistered truck, and John Raymond…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: The Minister for Local Government (Mr Renshaw) has sent to the Police Department all documents…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Court of Petty Sessions
At the Corowa Court of Petty, Sessions before Mr. Quiggan, S.M. on Thursday, Alfred James Muidoon was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Risk Lives in Grim Struggle
MELBOURNE, Mon.: Two policemen battled desperately 70 feet above the ground before they succeeded in dragging a…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: Judge Clegg said in Quarter Sessions today that he regretted very much that the law had provided “only a very inadequate penalty of five years” for indecently assaulting girls…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: The acting Premier, Mr. Galvin, tonight ordered an immediate police investigation into a…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Serial Story Alias Basil Willing a thrilling adventure in multiple murder
THE STORY: Jack Duggan, a private detective, borrows Br. Basil Willing's name and dies. On the same night aged…
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William Kinnibuigh, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to behaving in an indecent manner in Ebden st. yesterday…
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LONDON, Toes.: A former Canadian Army lieutenant yesterday told the Royal Commission on Awards to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Protest on alleged police activity
MELBOURNE, Tues.: A letter protesting against alleged police activity during Sunday’s May Day march was sent to the acting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dead rat was court exhibit
SYDNEY, Tues.: Exhibiting Jars of black grease, weevils, and the decomposed body of a rat at Central Summons Court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Migrant to be tried for the alleged murder of young woman
ADELAIDE, Tues.: John Balaban, 28, Rumanian industrial chemist, of Gouger street, city, was today committed for trial on a charge of having murder Zora Kusic, 29, a Yugoslav migrant, at Torrensville on December 5 last year. He reserved his defence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rutherglen Court Publican’s accusation is denied by constable
The licensee of a Rutherglen hotel claimed yesterday that a police constable had threatened to “catch” him after he had been accused by the licensee of “running two laws in the town.”…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →In Rutherglen Court Yesterday Yarrawonga man fined £20 on driving charge
A police constable told Rutherglen Court yesterday that he would not have followed a car and later arrested the driver for driving under the influence if his attention had not been drawn to the manner in which it had been…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Theft of Coronation Stone
A Coronation and the Coronation Stone missing? It might be possible, except for the "incident" a couple…
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