One-day courtship; two-day marriage—then Divorce Court
BRISBANE, Fri.: A whirl-wind courtship of one followed by two days of marriage, ended in the Divorce Court today. The wife Isabell Alma…
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Migrant Woman on Murder Count
NEWCASTLE, Sun.: Police yesterday charged a 29-year-old New Australian housemaid with the murder of Mrs Bridget…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: William John OâMeally, serving a life sentence in Pentridge for the murder of Constable George…
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MELBOURNE. Mon.; An official of Pentridge Gaol will appear before the Public Service Board on Friday on a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Search for Boy Scouts
SYDNEY, Mon.: Police and civilians are searching for three Scouts, missing in thick bush in the Waterfall-Audley area since…
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SYDNEY, Man. ; A room in a Tamworth boarding house, in which an elderly man was battered to death resembled a…
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CANBERRA, Mon.: A Commonwealth security officer, Mr. B. A. Rochford, today sought information from Parliamentary officials on the membership of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery…
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SYDNEY. Mon.: A Lindfield dentist shot himself dead on the day he was to appear in court for driving…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police allege that New Aust. woman strangled her mistress with a scarf
NEWCASTLE, Mon.: An attractive 29-year-old New Australian, alleged by police to have strangled a woman after an altercation between them, broke into tears after being charged with murder at Newcastle Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In Albury Court Yesterday Henty man fined for failing to kill rabbits
A former Henty landowner was fined in Albury Court yesterday on a charge of failing to destroy rabbits on his property, âCookabine,â Henty…
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MELBOURNE. Tues.: A former timber and cement dealer, who air-freighted the materials from Tasmnia, was sentenced in the…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: A man. who last night drove a taxi at 60 mph. with three passengers crouched in the back seat, was…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: a Central Criminal Court jury today found Reginald John Hall not guilty of murder, but guilty of…
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BRISBANE, Tues. : A war prisoner, with both wrists bandaged, was remanded in the Police Court today on a charge…
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MELBOURNE Tues.: The executive of the Police Association at a special meeting this afternoon decided to protest against…
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Kenneth Charles Nordsman, 31, laborer, of Olive street, Albury, appeared in Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on charges of…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: A Czech migrant, who crawled under a Poleâs house and fired a shot up through the floor,…
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HOBART, Wed.: A-25 year old man from the West Coast mining town of Zeehan was found not guilty of attempted murder in…
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CAPTAINâS FLAT. Wed.: Police fear a 15 year old boy, missing since Tuesday afternoon, might have accidentally shot himself…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: The State Government is unlikely to grant an extra £1 to members of the police force for work during the…
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