Murder He Says
One of the funniest farces to date will open at the Plaza Theatre to night (Friday). It's "Murder He Says." starring Fred MacMurray,…
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Six Months' Gaol for Assaulting Detective
SYDNEY, Thursday: A man with eight convictions for housebreaking since 1942 was to-day sentenced to six months' gaol for assaulting a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court Wednesday. June 12 (Before Mr. R. Hardwicke. P.M.) Indecent Language
Frank Ralph Beggs pleaded not guilty to a charge of using indecent language in Bolton Street on 23rd April, but later altered his plea to one…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: A mother and her daughter were to-day committed for trial on s charge of murdering Madeline Ethel Hales…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: The Crown will not proceed with the 10-year-old murder charge against William Robert Bathgatc, aged 47, farmer…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Police today captured, under dramatic circumstances, a man in the rough bushland at Sylvania,…
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The Sydney police are waging an intense man-hunt for a sex end who strangled and savagely outraged 11 year old Joan Norma Norris, whose…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Contempt of Court at Spy Trials
MONTREAL, Thursday: Four defendants in Canada's spy trials were committed for contempt of court when they refused to give…
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PERTH, Sunday: A 60-year-old woman to arrested at Fremantle yesterday afternoon on a charge of murder. The arrest followed the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: A report is to be submitted by the police to the Premier (Mr. McKell) today, proposing that a large reward for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court Wednesday, June 12 (Before Mr. R. Hardwicke, P.M.) Fined for Assaulting Railway Porter
Gerard David Joseph Elrington (30) was charged with assaulting Andrew John Phipps, an officer of the Commissioner for Railways, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Moves New Officers For Goulburn
Superintendent J. F. Sweeney, of Dubbo, and Inspector T. J. Ellis, of Forbes, will take up duty as officers in charge of the Goulburn and…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Premier (Mr. McKell) announced to-night that 100 additional police would be recruited immediately for the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: The police dog, Souri has been sent to Dubbo for use in the man-hunt for Thomas John Winning. 27, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Arrests Follow Theft of £7,000,000 Girl Says She was Double-Crossed
BATAVIA, Wednesday: One of world's biggest thefts—gold, jewels, and money worth £7,000,000 sterling—has been disclosed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tumut District Residents Go to Court Gundagai District Court Case Judge Reserves Decision
Several Tumut District inhabitants came down, from the hills last Tuesday, and Gundagai accommodated them at the Court House, where His Honor Judge Berne, presiding over the District Court, heard so much about trees, felling timber and various other incidentals…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railwaymen March Into Court Want "Fair Deal" in 40-Hour Case
MELBOURNE, Wednesday: After a combined union meeting during lunch-hour at the Jolimont railway workshops to-day about 300 railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CONSTABLE C. P. Quinn Leaves for Yass Gundagai Says Farewell To Popular Police Officer
To-day Constable C. P. Quinn, with his wife and family, bid adieu to Gundagai, the officer of the law having been transfered to Yass…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldier Charged with Theft of Car
SYDNEY, Thursday: Shortly after steamer a car at Wa[?]'s Bay yesterday a soldier was [?] in an ass[?] in the city, it was [?]ed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Canadian M.P. Sentenced
MONTREAL, Wed. (A.A.P.): Justice Lezure to-day sentenced Fred Rose, the Communist M.P., to six years' imprisonment on charges in…
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