Former Holbrook Farmer Sentenced Appeal to Be Made
Sidney John Harmer, 53-year-old former Holbrook farmer, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for…
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Stealing From Syphon: Young Man on £100 Bond
âNo doubt your experience in the army has led you to have little respect for Government property.â Judge F. Berne remarked to a young man at the Quarter Sessions this week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mother freed on charge of murder
SYDNEY, Thurs.: A 30-year old mother of two children who admitted stabbing her 19-year old lover with a bread knife…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Youth Gaoled on Breaking, Entering and Stealing charges Henty Store Robbery
Describing him as a "pathetic boy," Judge Brennan, in Albury Quarter Sessions on Thursday, sentenced an 18-year-old Sydney youth to three years' gaol on a charge of breaking, entering and stealing, and six months'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Wodonga Court Yesterday Man’s sale of two bodies of wine costs him £35
A 61-year-old men who was fined £35 in Wodonga Court yesterday on a charge of selling sly grog told police he only sold it to his friends. He is George Vining , of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hanged for “Near Perfect” Murder
BALTIMORE, Friday: George Edward Grammar died on the fallows early today for the âalmost perfectâ murder…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Police Fire on Men
MELBOURNE, Fri.: Police fired warning shots at several men after a chemistâs shop had been broken into in Main road, St. Albans,…
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SYDNEY. Fri.: Following issue yesterday of a warrant for his arrest, Samuel Curotta, of Double Bay, was taken to the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Zero hour near for offending motorists Meeting Told of Police Plans
N.S.W, police have been instructed to wage an all-out war against offending motorists in on effort to reduce the ever-mounting tall of the road, Supt. H. E. Snowden, Superintendent of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Albury Court Yesterday Man who illegally took car and crashed it is gaoled for a year
A 28-year-old laborer who illegally used a Lavington manâs car on June 7 and later crashed it was sentenced to 12 monthsâ imprisonment- by Mr. McDonald, S.M., in Albury Court of Petty Sessions yesterday. He is James Hall, of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Assault Charges Against M.’sP
TOKIO, Sun.: The Japanese Liberal (Government) Party filed charges against 31 Left and Right Wing Socialist members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Will probe allegations of vice, intrigue in gaol
MELBOURNE, Mon.: Allegations of corruption, vice and intrigue at Pentridge Gaol, made in two letters by murderer Robert Walker before he suicided, will be investigated, the Director-General of Prisons, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Two Town Hotels in Saturday Swoop by Deniliquin Police
Shortly before picture interval on Saturday night Deniliquin Police raided two town Hotels to check on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gaol term for cruelty to cats
SYDNEY, Tues.: The R.S.P.C.A. is seeking legislation making it an offence liable to a gaol term of five years to tear out a catâs claws…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Man Who “Slipped” Bail Sent to Gaol
MELBOURNE. Tues.: A motor mechanic, who in the last year âskippedâ bail, escaped from gaol warders, and later…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Illegal Use of Bicycles Worries Police
Six youths will appear in Albury Court of Petty Sessions on Monday on charges of stealing bicycles and parts…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police say man’s alleged deals over flats netted him £1650
MELBOURNE, Tues.: Allegations that o men had received £1650 in deposits from people by offering them flats in the St. Kilda-Elwood orea without authority were mode in the St. Kilda Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Escaping mew shot by police
MILDURA, Wed.: A police sergeant who had been knocked unconscious recovered shot a man as he was running away from the yard of the Co-operative Fruit Co., Red Cliffs,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police believe woman died in “electric chair”
LITHGOW, Wed.: Police ore investigating the death of a middle aged woman who is believed to have been electrocuted while sitting in an âelectric chair.â…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Woman to be sentenced: perijury
MELBOURNE, Thurs: A Young woman was convicted in General Sessions today for perjury committed when she bailed two…
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