Seaman Charged With Melbourne Murder
At Central Police Court, Sydney, yesterday, Oscar Skyers, 51, a colored seaman, was charged with having murdered Maisie Marsh, also known…
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Courts & crime, 1950
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Double Murder Police Arrest Man
Police late last night arrested a young man, aged 23, and he will appear before the Kempsey Court to-day in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lost Handcuffs Bring Aborigine Police
Twenty-year-old aboriginal, Andrew Caldwell, saw a pair of handobliged him and then charged him other aborigine’s hut. He took them…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder Charge Against Company Director LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.)
Brian Donald Hume, 29-year-old company director, spent nearly three hours in the dock at Old Bailey yesterday, defending himself against a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rabbit Prosecutions Three Landowners Fined Magistrate's Warning
The first rabbit prosecutions in the Braidwood end of the Pastures Protection District were heard at Tuesday's court of Petty Sessions, before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol for Begging Pensioner Gets Two Months
An invalid pensioner, Barnes Byrne, 53, who said he had been “Collecting for a shave” was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment by Mr. Paton,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accessory to Murder Given 12 Years Goal LONDON, Friday (A.A.P)
Brian Donald Hume, 29, self-styled flying smuggler, was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment at the Old Bailey yesterday, after pleading…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Police Go on the Films
For the first time, British criminal investigation headquarters at Scotland Yard have helped make a full length film…
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Mr. A. E. Stonham, S.M., was outspoken in his remarks during the hearing of a case at the Katoomba Police Court recently, in which a man…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →22-Boy Curry Short Serial Story. an Exciting Murder Mystery
WHEN Miss Turnbull became aware of the voices outside her cabin window the "Mustang" was ploughing slowly but doggedly across a moonlit…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Go to Gaol Rather Than Pay Fine
In the Moss Vale Court yesterday, Charles Miller Hughes, a farmer, said he would go to gaol rather than pay a fine of £4 for having failed to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Short Serial Story. 22-Boy Curry an Exciting Murder Mystery (Continued). "She'll Kill Herself."
HER surmise proved to be opportune as well as correct. The very next morning, in fact, things began to happen. Mr. Mallarchy, a red-faced…
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John Bryan Kerr, 25, radio announcer, was to-day committed for trial on a charge of murdering Elizabeth Maureen Williams, 20,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Human Bones Found Recalls Murder Mystery
Part of a human skeleton, believed be the remains of William Henry Layers, who disappeared at Grenfell in 1936, was found on Saturday in a…
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At the local Court on February 13 before Mr. C. L. Fisher, J.P., John Leslie Lynch pleaded guilty to a charge of using indecent language in Monaro…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District Court Action for Return of Furniture Succeeds
AN unusual case was heard at the District Court at Braidwood on Tuesday, during which it was disclosed that a young man believed himself…
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SHE found herself in a vast old-fashioned lounge whose high ceilings were studded with slowly revolving punkahs. Two or three groups of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Will Go to Gaol Rather Than Pay Rabbit Fine
Charles Miller Hughes, a farmer, said in the Moss Vale Police Court last week that he would go to gaol rather than pay a fine of £4 for having failed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hectic Happenings Assault and THREATS At Captain's Flat Braidwood Dentist in Case
Quite a stir was created in the mining township of Captain's Flat on Tuesday, when there was a long list of 18 cases set down for hearing in the…
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"Perhaps," Miss Turnbull suggested in her calm way, "it was only acute indigestion. The Baroness ate very heartily, you know. I noticed that…
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