Serial Story Alias Basil Willing a thrilling adventure in multiple murder
THE STORY: JACK Duggan, a private detective, is murdered and Miss Katherine Shaw, aged and blind, dies under…
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In Albury Court Yesterday Man fined £20 for speeding
Fines totalling £72 were imposed by Mr. A. V. Quiggin, S.M., at yesterday’s Albury Court for speeding. Heaviest penalty was £20 against a Kew resident for travelling at 60 miles an hour In Mate street…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fight for Peter Continues Young mother becomes hysterical in court
SYDNEY, Man.: Mr. Justice McLelland this afternoon ordered withdrawal of newspaper reports of certain evidence after unmarried mother Joan Murray, 22 years old, became hysterical…
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NEW YORK, Tues.: A schoolboy, who confessed to killing two small girls in a wood in Spring Valley, New York, was yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: After a retirement of less than 15 minutes, a Central. Criminal Court jury acquitted a man charged with…
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MELBOURNE, Tues. : Two leading Melbourne psychiatrists told the Criminal Court today they thought that former test pilot Lionel Lee, 32, was insane and incapable of reasoning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deputation to discuss parking problems with Police Commissioner
A deputation representing Albury City Council, Hume Shire Council, Chamber of Commerce, and Southern Riverina Graziers’…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fitter gets High Court order over £50 fine
MELBOURNE, Wed.: A railways fitter was granted a High Court order today calling on the Arbitration Court to show…
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A HAY Quarter Sessions jury returned a verdict of not guilty at the end of a trial in which Ronald Francis Beardmore, former overseer at "Coonara," Carrathool, was charged with stealing 61 lambs…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: The Crown Employes’ Appeal Board today upheld the appeal by Sgt. R. J. McNeall against the promotion of…
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At the Corowa Court of Petty Sessions held on Thursday before Mr. Quiggan, S.M., Harold Raymond Baker was charged…
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A Melbourne motorist, Bernard Peter Raphael, of East Coburg, was fined a total of £7 in Wodonga Court yesterday for…
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In the Hay District Court yesterday when the cases, Smith Simpson and Co. v. four separate defendants were called, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alias Basil Willing Serial Story a thrilling adventure in multiple murder
THE STORY : Jack Duggan a private detective is murdered and Miss Katherine Shaw aged and blind dies under…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Corowa Court yesterday Part-heard case adjourned
A part-heard case, in which a Corowa resident, Albert Leo Martell, has been charged with ill-treating an animal, was adjourned…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In Albury Court yesterday Corryong Man Is Remanded
A 23-year-old Corryong Laborer. James Walter Hore, was remanded until Monday oh £30 bail by Mr. A S. Kendall in…
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BRISBANE, Fri.: Following the discovery by police of a man with his head shattered by a bullet lying on the floor of a house in…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: Sydney margarine manufacturers said today that it was '“stupid” that the industry should be penalised because of the “inefficiency” of dairy farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →East Berlin Police Flee
BERLIN, Fri.: Forty-one East Berlin policemen, including one officer, fled to West Berlin yesterday…
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KATOOMBA, Fri: Police in Katoomba Police Court today charged a railway fettler and His de facto wife with the manslaughter of their six-weeks-old son. The boy died in the Blue…
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