Truck Driver Charged
A truck driver was charged with driving under the influence after an accident at Wodonga late yesterday afternooon…
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Court’s warning to youth
SYDNEY, Fri.: An 18-year-old laborer, who pleaded guilty to using a motor car illegally, was given a bond at Paddington court…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Police destroy stray dogs ; council buries them
Responsibility of destroying stray dogs in Albury is usually borne by the police and the City Council buries them, it was stated yesterday. There is no lethal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Emotional outbursts as Court hears of village massacres
BORDEAUX, Fri.: A man from Avignon who sent his children to Oradour village to escape Allied bombings said in court today that he fell on his knees and wept in the ruins of the village church where he found the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dealer’s market gamble “went the other way,” court told
SYDNEY, Fri.: A former cattle dealer, who once had more than £6,000 and gambled on a rise in the market which “went the other way,” told the Bankruptcy Court today that he was now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Youth on attempted murder charge
MELBOURNE, Sun.: A 16-year-old youth was charged at the City Watch-house last night with wounding with intent to murder…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Gaol Sentence Doubled
SYDNEY, Mon.: A man’s 12 months’ gaol sentence for illegally using cars and stealing was doubled by…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →In Albury Court Yesterday Alleged motorist tried to run police car off road
Police witnesses stated in Albury Court yesterday that the driver of a car had nearly knocked a constable down and tried to run a police car off the road when it was attempting to overtake him. William Henry Reid, Griffith street, Lavington, was before the court…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Corowa Court of Petty Sessions
At the Corowa Court of Petty Sessions held on Thursday, January 29, 1953, before Mr. Quiggin, S.M., L. John Rollins…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police seek “master mind” of sharescrip forgeries SYDNEY, Mon.: Defectives today arrested a man and charged him with uttering forged sharescrip in a gold mining company, Placer Development Ltd
Detectives also issued a warrant for the arrest of a 41-years-old man, well known in racing circles,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Woman’s murder inquest
SYDNEY, Tues.: A man charged with the murder of a woman had said that if he was in the woman’s room on the night of the murder…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Taxi-driver charged with forgiving share certificates
SYDNEY, Tues.: Gordon William Watson, 42, taxi-driver, of Victoria street, Marrickville, was charged in Central Court today with having forged share certificates on Placer Development Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Communists sentenced
NEW YORK, Wed.: Thirteen “second string” Communist leaders were today sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from one to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Theft of rum
BRISBANE, Wed.: Detectives are investigating the theft of 282 gallons of overproof rum from the Beenleigh distillery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To Stand Trial for Murder
SYDNEY, Wed.: The City Coroner (Mr. Forrest) today committed for trial Robert Henry Bungate on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ice Follies’ star left home, court fold
SYDNEY, Wed.: An Ice Follies star who left her husband a few months after her marriage, was today in the Divorce Court…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →“Amateur woodsman” fined £25 in Beechworth court
An Albury barman who cut down three valuable trees neat Lake Kerferd in December to collect the tops for Christmas trees was fined £25 in the Beechworth court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Spent £13,000 on “booze and women,” police allege
SYDNEY, Wed.: A detective said in Redfern Court today that Mascot RSL sub-branch president. James Albert Merriell, has spent…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£1000 reword offered in murder case
SYDNEY, Thurs.: The State Government will offer a £1000 reward for information leading to the apprehension of the murderer…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In Albury Court Yesterday Young man fined £134; described as “menace on the roads”
Described by police prosecutor as “a menace on the roads” a 24-years-old Albury carpenter was ordered to pay a total of £134/10/- in fines on 30 charges when he appeared before Mr. A. V. Quiggin, S.M., in Albury Court yesterday…
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