10 Years' Gaol for Shooting
SYDNEY, Friday: An Italian market gardener, Dominco Blefarl, 55. was found guilty in the Central Criminal Court today with slaying…
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France Drive by Security Police Nearly 1000 Arrested
PARIS, Monday: Nearly 100 persons have been arrested in France during the past eight days in a drive by Security Police against sabotage, said…
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A RESIDENT of Moonee Ponds (Melbourne), Albert H. Melton, was fined £10 and was automatically disqualified from…
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LONDON, Tuesday: A magistrate fined the member of the House of Commons, Mr. Arthur Lewis, leader of the Savoy Hotel strikers, £50, with £10…
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It was announced at the Council meeting last week that Sgt. Heffernan had suggested to Council that the safety zone in Chelmsford Place…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Billy Sheahan on Police Inquiry at Gundagai "Will Pull No Punches" When He Makes Statement
The information I have gathered and am gathering, will be given to my constituents at the appropriate time, and no punches to investigate any matters relative to the preservation of peace and and order," said Mr. Sheahan. "Equally members of Parliament have a duty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court of Petty Sessions (Yesterday) Before Mr. W. Finlay, S.M. Alleged Insulting Words
The adjourned case in which William Alexander Cheshire, aged 41, was charged with using insulting words to Sgt. Gentle in a room at 121 Parker…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday: A prominent business man and a former member of the Special Investigation Branch has been charged…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: a man who was alleged to have cut the throats of his four children, three of whom died, was today found not guilty…
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STONES, Thursday: Detectives forced their way into a locked loft in a warehouse in Darlinghurst early this morning and uncovered…
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On Tuesday last the Magistrate, Mr. W. Finlay, S.M., gave his finding on a charge brought by Mrs. Eileen May Jenkins against Mrs. Dorothy Mary…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday: The atmosphere of the Melbourne General Cemetery so depressed an employee that…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Legal action will be taken by the Railway Operating Employees' Association against the New South Wales…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: The Supreme Court today upheld the verdict of the award of £20,000 from the estate of the late Sir Joynton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court of Petty Sessions WEDNESDAY, 10th DECEMBER (Before Mr. W. Finlay, S.M.) Alleged Receiving
The part-heard case against William Henry Scanion, who was charged with receiving a bicycle, the property of John Edward Madden, knowing the…
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SYDNEY, Friday: A 19-year-old youth was charged today with stealing nearly 6000 bottles of beer, which police alleged would…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Mr. Justice Sugarman, in the Equity Court to-day, made an interim order restraining the Greyhound Racing…
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SYDNEY, Friday: The Federal Government's order prohibiting the sale and use of cream without a permit except at cheese and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Items of News Laborer Fined at Wagga Court
William Stanley McDermott, 39, laborer, was fined £3, in default six days imprisonment, in the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions…
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Herbert James Pomfrett (33) was charged with on 15th November, at Grong Grong, stealing one suit case, a camera, an overcoat, a gent's suit…
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