Frightened by Height of Harbor Bridge Would-be Suicide Fires a Bullet Wollongong
Charged with having attempted to commit suicide, William John Fleming, 21, was alleged to have told Detective Becker that because of a…
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Fires & bushfires, 1933
880 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 43 of 44
Reichstag Fire Trial Death Penalty Demanded LEIPZIG, December 14
The Chief Prosecutor at the Reichstag fire trial (Herr Werner) to-day demanded the death penalty for Torgler and Vander Lubbe, for sustained high treason and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Maitland District West Maitland Fire in Hay Stack Water Pumped from River
Heating in a stack of lucerne hay caused a fire to, break out in a large shed on a farm at Wallalong, owned by Mr. Walter Scott, and occupied by Mr…
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A six-roomed unoccupied weather-board cottage was severely damaged by fire at Rawson-street, Aberdare, at 11.20 p.m. yesterday. The house…
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Cook's Hill and Hamilton Fire Brigades were called to a grass fire, which menaced some fencing at the railway end of Lawson-street, Hamilton, yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sailors Drown Fire Destroys Schooner Died When Near Safety Boston, December 17
Three seamen were drowned and 10 were rescued early to-day, when the Boston fishing schooner, Ellen T. Marshall was burned to the water's edge and sank…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Reichstag Fire Sentences Next Week Counsel's Appeals Dutchman's Guilt Admitted (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, December 16
At yesterday's hearing of the Reichstag fire trial at Leipzig, Dr. Seuffert, one of the defending counsel, asked the Court to find Van der Lubbe not guilty of high…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Riot Outside Embassy in London Demonstration by Communists Protest Against Fire Trial in Germany Police Cordon Broken London
Two hundred East End Communists, including women and girls, who marched to the German Embassy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Fires
The East and Vest Maitland fire brigades were called out to a fire at the residence of Mr. S. Race, in Newcastle-street, East Maitland, last night, but…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Brigades' Demonstration
The Newcastle citizens' sub-committee which is raising the city's quota of the fund to provide trophies for the volunteer firemen's demonstration at Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Brigade's Good Save
Cessnock Fire Brigade was called out at midnight on Sunday to a fire at a six-roomed unoccupied weatherboard cottage in Rawson-street Aberdare, the property…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Three Fire Engines Turn Out False Alarm in Hunter-street
A column of smoke rising in the vicinity of a big city store shortly before 11 o'clock last night brought the two big fire-fighting engines from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Revelations in London Fire Bug Frauds Informer Tells of Bribery London
An astounding story of wholesale bribery in connection with London fires was told in Bow-street Police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Protection 1934 Estimate £20,668 Councils' Contributions
Protection of properties against fires in the Newcastle district during 1934 will cost, it is estimated, £20,668. This cost will be borne by the insurance companies,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Post Box Letters Damaged at Hamilton Police Inquiring
The posting pillar at the corner of Denison and Hunter-streets, Hamilton, was apparently the scene of a small fire yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Frauds Astounding Story Told Salvage Corps Bribed London, December 18
An astounding story of wholesale bribery in connection with London fires was told in Bow-street Police Court to-day by Leopold Harris, who is the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire in Roof of House
A fire broke out in the shingle underneath the galvanised iron roof of a house in Nobbys-orad this morning. When the fire brigades arrived the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Solicitor Tells Fire-raising Gang Exposed London Trial London
William Crocker, a solic[?]tor, whose investigations led to the exposure and conviction of the fire-raising…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Fire Brigades Too Expensive" View of Wickham Aldermen Costs Discussed
The view that Newcastle District Fire Brigades were overstaffed, was expressed at Wickham Council last night…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Raged for 24 HOURS Fire on American Steamer LONDON, December 19
The American steamship Topatopa, of 5356 tons, carrying cotton and timber from Florida to London, arrived in the Thames to-day with a fire aboard, which had raged…
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