“Yard” Probes Abbey Theft
LONDON, Tues.: Scotland Yard is trying to solve a Coronation Day theft from westminster Abbey…
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Men allegedly involved in hold-up in court
MELBOURNE, Tues.; One of two men alleged by police to have been involved in the hold-up of a Burwood home, during which a radiogram valued at £40 was stolen, was refused bail by Mr. McLean, S.M., in the City…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: Detectives tonight charged 63-year-old woman with the murder of four people and the attempted murder of another. She is charged with…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: Police this afternoon stopped about 80 British migrants from marching through the city…
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TUNIS. Wed.: A 23-year-old Maltese, M. Palluce, yesterday made a move as if to. kiss his. 17-year-old wife in a tunis divorce…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Wed.: A Bulgarian laborer told the District Coroner (Mr. Hubbard) today he had overheard a conversation to kidnap a girl and had then warned the girl’s father…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A young laborer who escaped from prison warders in Flinders st.. City, in June last year, was sent to gaol…
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SYDNEY, Thurs. : A 63 -year-old married woman was charged at Central Police Court today with having murdered four people in the last six years by thallium poisoning. Her counsel…
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A special court will be held at Wodonga on July 26 to deal with charges against a Wodonga man concerning the alleged…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Thurs.: It was obvious the court was not getting the whole truth, District Coroner (C. H. Hubbard),…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A High Court challenge on the right of the Arbitration Court to control union ballots may be made by…
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A CHARGE brought by the Hay Pastures Protection Board against James McKenzie Baker of failing continuously to suppress rabbits on his property failed in the Hay Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Wodonga Court Yesterday Two chemists are fined over Drug Act breaches
Wodonga chemist, Leslie George Knapman, High st., had dispensed prescriptions containing specified end dangerous drugs without having a written prescription from a medical practitioner, Wodonga Court was told yesterday…
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Until the “woke up” in a police station cell three hours later, a 21-year-old Albury contractor had little knowledge of what had happened after a motor accident in which he was involved, Mr. Quiggin, S. M., was told in Albury Court yesterday Before the court was…
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LONDON, Fri.: Soviet secret police chief and deputy Premier, Lavrenti Beria, 54, one of Russia’s “Big Three” leaders since the death of Mr. Stalin, has been sacked as “an enemy of the Communist Party and Soviet people”—a form of outlawry which usually means death…
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A man charged with driving under the influence in Corowa yesterday will appear before the Corowa Court on July 30. Sgt…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: Police and RAAF personnel are searching for a savage war-trained, Alsatian dog, which escaped from the RAAF…
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ADELAIDE, Fri.: Mr. Justice Dunphy, of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, today made an order calling on five members of the Commonwealth Council of the Amalgamated Engineering Union to show cause why…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Albury Court Yesterday : Little boy and 11-year-old girl tell court of street accident: man fined
A six-year-old boy and on 11 -year-old girl were witnesses in Albury Court yesterday at the hearing of a charge of negligent driving against a Howlong builder. The are John August…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Albury Court Yesterday S.M. finds that contractor was aware of what he was doing
The magistrate, Mr. Quiggin, found in Albury Court yesterday that Thomas James Humphries, 21, baling contractor, of Olive street, Albury, was aware of his actions last Saturday night when he allegedly assaulted…
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