Rent Collector Killed Sawn Off Rifle Used Man Arrested After Police Chase Sydney
A rent collector, Arthur Charles Lampshire, aged 50 years, of Eastwood was killed with a sawn-off rifle at Jannali, near Como, yesterday…
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Police Court
At the court of petty sessions, John Walters (32), Gordon Gallagher (19), and Reginald John Morris (28), were charged with having…
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At the Ryde Police Court, two lads, said to be members of a gang, were charged before Mr. Bliss, P.M., with stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wagga Police Court Monday, March 4
Ernest Dixon was changed with having stolen a bicycle, with having broken and entered a dwelling and stolen 3/ in money and other articles, and with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder in City Cafe
Detectives inquiring into the murder in a city cafe early yesterday of Alexander Miller, also known as Arthur Wilson (28), have been met…
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Before Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., on Wednesday, at Lockhart, the Taxation Department, through Mr. J. Rook, prosecuted B. J. O'Connell for…
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Leslie Kennedy, aged 27 years, a clerk, and Leslie John Jarrod, aged 31 years, a laborer, were charged at the Central Court to-day with the…
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a s[?]g norse charged a car recently and slit its throat on the: bonnet mascot. The horse collapsed in s lane nearby. It Tas destroyed…
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It is understood that legislation is unlikely to be Introduced by the State Government' granting the police absolute, instead of limited, privilege in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →APPLES & PEARS Police Pelted at Melb. Markets MELBOURNE
Violent demonstrations against, the regulations compelling growers to deliver their fruit to the Apple and Pear Board were made by men at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Apples and Pears Police Pelted at Melbourne Markets Melbourne
violent, demonstrations against the regulations compelling growers to deliver their fruit to the Apple and Pear Board were made by men at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gundagai Police Court Prosecutions Under The Health Act
It is now over twelve months since any defended case of importance has been listed for the monthly sittings of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yass Impounding Officer Court Orders Destruction of Horse Convicted of Cruelty
In the Yass Police Court on Monday morning two Justices of the Peace ordered that the horse used by the impounding officer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Discharged from Hospital—Charged at Court Police Action Against Young Driver of Wrecked Car
THE driver of a car, who, together with his three passengers, narrowly escaped death when the heavy sedan left a curve on the Yanco road at 6.30 on Wednesday, February 28, has been charged with driving a car while under the influence of intoxicating liquor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gundagai Police Court (Before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.m.) Deficient Milk Sold Two Cafe Owners Fined
At the Gundagai police Court on Tuesday Mrs. Greenwell, keeper of refreshment rooms in Sheridan-street, Gundagai, was fined 2/, with 8/ costs,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Early-Morning Gaol-Break By Alleged Thieves Smashed Way Through Exercise-Yard Grille at Leeton, Lock-up Shortly Before Due in Court
EARLY yesterday morning two men who had been charged with having insufficient lawful means of support, and were to have been charged at the Leeton Court of Petty Sessions later in the day in connection with the theft of a utility truck, and with a robbery at…
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Replying to Sgt. Newlnnd, Wickham said "The chap I sent for the ambulance was not a myth. I saw him. I did not have any arrangement…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Labor Party Breakaway Move Police Intervene at Meeting Sydney
Proposals to form a breakaway Labor Party in New South Wales were made at a meeting to-night which ended in uproar, and intervention by the police…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Actions Cold, Callous, Unhumane"—-Coroner Castigates Inquiry Witnesses Cannot Realise Why Driver Did Not Know He Struck Man" —Botten Committed Police Allege Conspiracy Between Witnesses: Application to Place on Trial Refused
SEVERE censure of several witnesses who appeared at the inquiry into the death of Robert Bruce Niccol, who met his death through injuries received while cycling on the Leeton-Yanco road on the night of Sunday, February 18, was followed by a sensational turn in the proceedings on Tuesday night when Sergeant C. S. Newland, who presented the facts to the Coroner (Mr. W. C. Barker), pressed strongly to have four men who had given evidence arraigned as accessories after the fact…
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Two men who had been arrested at Leeton and charged with having insufficient means of support, and who were later in the day to have…
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