Man Given 10 Years at Wagga Court
AT the Wagga Quarter Sessions yesterday Tasman Davies, 24, of Albury, was sentenced to ten years'…
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Man Released on Bond at Wagga Court
Ivan Ronald O'Hara, charged on three counts of breaking and entering at the Forest Hill Air School, was released on bond at…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday: Urgent efforts to influence the Federal Government to clarify the powers of the Arbitration Court in wage-pegging claims were made to-day by the Victorian Premier…
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A National Police College is to be opened in Britain this year. It will offer an opportunity to every constable to fit himself for filling the highest…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: A jury at the Central Criminal Court to-day decided that Mrs. May Richardson, 36, was fit to stand trial…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Seize 1700lb. of Fish in Wagga
Wagga police last night seized 17 100lb cases of fish which, it was alleged, was being distributed. The seizure was made about 8.30…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Open Column Tumut-Canberra Car Service Challenge of "Alleged" Police Report (To the Editor)
SIR.--Please allow me [?] correct an erroneous report, appearing in the last issue of both the "Tumut and Adelong Times" and the "Gundagai Independent."…
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LONDON, Friday: The Australian, William Hunt Scotts, was found guilty on all charges of theft and conversion from Production…
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PERTH, Friday: Between 6.15 p.m. on Thursday and 4 a.m. to-day, thieves smashed a large hole in a plate glass window of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Correspondence (We do not necessarily endorse the views of our correspondents) Theft of Shrubs
Sir,—Some weeks ago a P.O.W. brought back from Sydney, as well as his wife and baby, two ornamental shrubs and spent most of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Record Show Crowd Sweeps Police Aside
SYDNEY, Sunday: More than a quarter of a million people made an all-time attendance record at the Royal Easter Show yesterday and…
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PARIS, Monday: Czech Embassy officials in Paris reject suggestions that the murder of the Czech consul (Gejza Racgejac)' yesterday was…
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MELBOURNE, Monday: An application to the Supreme Court to restrain Stawell Athletic Club from preventing Don Cameron and Des Crowe from competing in the semi-final and final of the Stawell Gift to-day was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Charged with Murder at Enfield
SYDNEY, Tuesday: In the Burwood Court to-day William James Barrett, 34, single, was charged with the murder of William Devin…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court (Monday) Before Mr. Hardwicke, P.M. Found In Truck
Lionel William Peter Wilson, aged 21, pleaded guilty to being found in a railway truck containing goods, and was fined £20 or 40 days…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: William Watson, 42, boiler maker, was to-day committed for trial at Balmain Court on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gundagai Man Finds a Gold Pass Charged Before Court And Fined £5
"No doubt I acted the fool and should have done something about it," said Reginald Rheuben Morton, in the Gundagai Police Court…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Hollywood crooner, Frank Sinatra, was arrested and charged with assaulting Lee Mortimer, film columnist…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Mrs. Ettie Jean Wright 31, or Strathfield, appeared at the Central Criminal Cour today on a charge of murdering he…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rabaul Trials. Tortured and Killed for Stealing Lemons
RABAUL, Wednesday: A Japanese company commander, his lieutenant and two Japanese N.C.O.'s had tortured and killed an Indian…
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