Wagga Court Items
A NEW Australian, Charles Maho, was fined £3 with 10/ costs for smoking in the kitchen of Romano's Hotel…
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Man on Charge of Murder of Girls Defended
SYDNEY, Tuesday: A Toukley timber merchant told the Central Criminal Court today he had known 25-years-old fisherman, William Birtle for two years, and he was the "last person in the world" he would…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Police Commissioner (Mr. Scott) made confidential police files available to counsel at the sitting of the Greyhound Racing Royal Commission today…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Fire at Car in 80 M.p.h. Chase
MELBOURNE, Tuesday: In an 80 m.p.h. chase early today, police fired at three men in a stolen car and wounded the driver in…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: A company manager had misappropriated the funds of a fishermen's co-operative society by forming a…
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PORTLAND, Wednesday: A finding of murder was recorded by the Coroner (Mr. Frew) today at the inquest into the death of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: William Birtle, 25, fisherman of Toukley, had made footprints similar to those found near the battered bodies of two English girls, it was alleged at the Central Criminal Court today…
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FLUSHING MEADOW, Wednesday: The U.N. General Assembly has approved the establishment of an International…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Men Shot in Police Chase
A Melbourne constable shot the driver of a suspected stolen car in the head in an 80-mile-an-hour chase through the suburbs at 3 a.m. on Tuesday. When the pursued car stopped, one of two other men in it ran, but was shot in the leg. Above…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Claim Arrest of Boys' Terror Gang
MELBOURNE, Wed.: Police have arrested five boys who they allege have been terrorising seamen near the Port Melbourne…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: The validity of the N.S.W. Hide and Leather Industries Act was challenged on behalf of Field's Wholesale Meat Pty. Ltd., in a writ issued out of the High Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Deaths in Bertha Hertoch Riots Rise to 14 Police Take Off Socks; Raid Mosque
SINGAPORE, Wednesday ( A.A.P.-Reuter): Police today removed their boots and socks before raiding the huge Sultan Mosque, which Moslem rioters had been using as their headquarters…
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SYDNEY, Friday — Police are completely baffled by the murder of a wealthy widow, Mrs. Edith Hill, 70, who was battered to death in her palatial apartment at The Astor, Macquarie street, City,…
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At the sittings of the District Court held at Leeton yesterday, before his Honour Judge Lamaro, Henry Myer Hart, of Farm 1285,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Police Appreciate Aid In River Search
Acting Inspector L. L. Caine, of the Wagga Police, last night thanked all who had rendered assistance in the search for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Beach Dangers Wagga Police Aid in Forming Rescue Club
A BODY of police officers and civilians last night formed the Wagga Rescue Club, designed to assist in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coroner Conducts Inquest Railway Fettler's Death Worried Over Court Proceedings
The District Coroner (Mr. T. Henderson), conducted an inquest at the Court House yesterday, into the death of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court of Petty Sessions Monday, December 11 . (Before Mr. W. H. Hall, J.P.)
George Joseph Stevens (25) was charged with drunkenness at Matong. Defendant was fined 10/, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local Items Wheat Stealing Charge
Wagga police yesterday arrested two men and charged them with stealing, at Coolamon, wheat to the value of £5. The…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Detectives investigating the brutal murder yesterday of wealthy Mrs. Edith Hill, aged 70, believe that valuable jewellery has been stolen from the flat…
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