Kiosk Murder Bail Refused To Defendant
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Stating that it was a general rule in the law in such cases to refuse ball, except is extraordinary circumstances…
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Not Guilty of Murder of Father
MELBOURNE, Wednesday: After a retirement of 20 minutes the jury to the Criminal Court to-day found Gloria Mary Bruin, aged 19 years…
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CANBERRA. Wednesday: Mysterious circumstances surround the death of Douglas Louden Smith, aged 19, railway employee of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Communists Charged with Inciting Shearers’ Strike A.W.U. Secretary Fears Dire Trouble
An appeal to 20,000 NSW shearers to disregard the "bogus strike move by Communist emissaries," was made by the State secretary of the AWU (Mr R. W. Wilson). Circulars, he said, had been sent out calling on pastoral workers from Monday to work a 40 hours week of…
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At the Junee Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Hardwick, P.M., Thomas Dalton Whiles was charged with having hose in his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court (Tuesday) No Light
Leonard Fergus Campbell plended guilty to riding a bicycle without a light. Sgt. Blackman: We are having…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday: Mrs. Gloria Bruin, aged 19 years, who was acquitted at the Criminal Court yesterday on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sentences in China Five Japanese Soldiers Sentenced to Death
SHANGHAI, Friday: The United State Military court sentenced to death five Japanese soldiers, including Major-General Masataka…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ex-solicitor Breaks Down in Court
MELBOURNE. Thursday: Since the inquiry into the business affairs of Miss Veronica Mary Jones, former solicitor, of Fitzroy, began…
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A meeting of the Special Land Board will be held at the Leeton Court House commencing at 2 p.m. on Monday next. The Board,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Daring Theft Attempted Man Hid in Car
SYDNEY, Friday: A young man concealed himself in a car and tried unsuccessfully to rob a paymaster of £300 at Rhodes, between…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Sentences of 10 years' imprisonment were to-day imposed on two R.N. ratings on charges of assault and robbery…
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About 5 p.m. yesterday the Wagga police were informed that a robbery had taken place from the office of Mr. L. S. Peacock…
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A meeting of the Special Land Board will be held at the Leeton Court House at 2 p.m. on Monday next. The board, which comprises…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Rout Pickets in U.s. Clash
PHILADELPHIA, Friday (A.A.P.): In a club-swinging mellee lasting 30 minutes, the police on horse-back made a circle of patrol cars and…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: Hundreds of Sydney racketeers are earning more each week than business executives and professional men get in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Raids in Wagga
Police raided three premises in Wagga on Saturday afternoon, where it was alleged illegal betting was in progress. Four men were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Old Berrima Gaol a Historic Landmark Displaced By Modern Prison Camp
The last mute evidence of the hangman’s noose, the lash that was freely used, and the dens of solitary confinement where outlaws paid the price in repulsive forms of capital punishment, is fast being reduced to memory within the stark walls of the old Berrima Gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Humane Magistrate
Paul Bennett, V. C., London Magistrate, is a great man. The fact that he has both the Victoria Cross and Military Gross from the First World…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Months' Gaol for False Pretences Second Conviction at Wagga
Thomas James Price, aged 86 years, laborer, of Beckwith-street, Wagga, was sentenced to four months hard labor by Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, P.M., at the Wagga police court yesterday, when he was…
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