Courier Serial: Murder at Pirate's Head Eyes in the Dark
I turned on the dimmer in the hallway and started upstairs. Half-way up I felt, rather than saw, someone staring down at me. Petrified,…
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Courts & crime, 1950
102 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 3 of 6
Courier Serial: Murder at Pirate's Head Chapter Viii
Aunt Nella began to cry. "Poor Wylie. I'd a-been a widow if—if we hadn't found him on that bench asleep."…
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Well, it was terrible. There we stood, a group of able-bodied human beings, helplessly watching the conflagration burn itself down and…
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"Of course we will," my Aunt and Lily both cried. "Me, too," added Bessie Norcross. "Come along, Hugh." You'd have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Courier Serial: Murder at Pirate's Head Conjectures
Thaddeus Quincy thumped his cane. "Listen folk. This is a lot of fun, I know, conjecturing about murders. But you're all wrong. The whole…
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"Or both of them," Potter said shuddering. "You girls go back," Victor said taking the shawl Mr. Q. handed him…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Funeral at Muswellbrook Constable John Keegan
The death occurred at Narrabri on June 6 of Senior-Constable John Keegan, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Keegan, of Muswellbrook…
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As to the bridge itself, it just wasn't any more, that's all. The old woden planks had been blown to splinters and washed away by the…
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"Nothing. Only you told us you were over by the Lane castle right after dark when Judy and Mr. Quincy spoke to you. Didn't take another…
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"I've been hoping, Mr. Quade, it we let you talk you'd give yourself away. Now you've done it, and there's a chance you're O.K. What…
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Boxing should be abolished in schools and for amateurs generally, says Dr. Arthur H. Steinhaus, past president of the American Academy…
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Hugh and Bessie admitted they'd brought theirs, and Aunt Nella reminded us that the minister had some by a significant nod. He had kept…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Courier Serial: Murder at Pirate's Head Defending Hugh
Bessie clenched her hands. Her voice cut like ice. "My brother," she said with unmistakable emphasis, "has a reputation which will put him…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Annals of Hampton Court
A colourful and richly-informed narrative of four centuries of English history has been penned in "The Gardens of Hampton Court,"…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cattle Stealing Charge Dismissed
Changed with stealing 28 head of cattle on August 4, 1949, John Joseph Carey appeared at the Quarter Sessions on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Courier Serial: Murder at Pirate's Head Saint or Hypocrite?
Was he a saint or a sanctimonious old hypocrite, pulling the wool over my aunt's eyes? "For the moment my past history…
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"Hush, Wylie. That ain't got nothin' to do with this. You only saw the poor old feller once after that didn't you?"…
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I began suddenly to be terribly afraid. Did the person who tried to use me have any connection with the foul deeds which followed? Was I…
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"What words?" "'Sentimental reasons'. He'd like, he said, to own the old Quaker church for sentimental reasons."…
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Somebody wasn't taking any chances of having his or her signature compared with the letter-writing Maybe he was afraid of not…
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