Unusual Wagga Court Case Interfered with funeral
A Wagga taxi-driver was fined £3, with 12/ Court costs, at yesterday's Court of Petty Sessions, for interfering with a funeral procession in Baylis Street…
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Charged with murder of wife
SYDNEY, Wednesday: John Edward Turner 62, machinist, of Browning Street, Campsie, was committed for trial today on a charge of murdering his de facto wife…
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At the Cootamundra Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday, Gordon Harold Greig, 32, of Junee Road, Cootamundra, was…
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In Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, Thomas R. Byrt, R.A.A.F., was fined £3 for carrying a pillion passenger when unlicensed to do so. Harold Cornelson, Yarrangobilly, was fined £3 for a…
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BRISBANE, Wed.: A man charged with murder had said be thought sharks would eat the body of a…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: A Russian Prince admitted in the Divorce Court today that an unfinished letter in which he had written of his great joy in becoming engaged to his landlady, Mrs. Lilian Wilkie Smith, was in his handwriting…
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SYDNEY, Thursday—An official at the Central Criminal Court stated today that, after examining the facts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Told of 10,000 Forbes Company Shares
SYDNEY, Wednesday: One of John Woolcott Forbes' companies bought 10,000 shares for £1 each and transferred them to Forbes' wife for 6/ each, Major-General Herbert William Lloyd admitted in the Bankruptcy Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court of Petty Sessions THURSDAY, 6th DECEMBER (Before Mr. F. J. Hale, J.P.)
Thomas William Cummings (62), and Louis Mepserd (63) were charged with being found drunk in East Street…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: A 19-year-old girl said in Central Court today she had prayed aloud t[?] induce a sailor to…
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MELBOURNE, Friday—"I am satisfied that the unfortunate man was done to death by you in circumstances of great…
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The High Court on Monday confirmed a murder conviction for which a 37-year-old Hungarian was sentenced to death at…
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Presence of mind and exceptional agility for a man of his years were responsible for saving Mr. Herb. Williams…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: William James Hatch, a director of Capital Investments Corporation Ltd. admitted in the Bankruptcy Court today that evidence had given previously was false. Batch, of Bishops Avenue,…
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After being shot in the thigh by a ricocheting bullet which was fired at a rabbit but struck a stone Ronald William Sutton,…
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Fifteen people from Garner's guest house in Cooma Street, Yass, are being treated for poisoning, some at the guest house and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Trap Man in Botany Cemetery Big Hunt Followed Brutal Bashing
SYDNEY, Friday—Fifty police trapped a man behind a tombstone at Botany cemetery early this morning following a brutal bashing nearby of a woman and her five-year-old son last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Letters to the Edit[?] (We do not necessarily endorse the views of our correspondents.) That Court Hour clock again
Sir: I have been in W[?] four weeks and it is a lo[?] place for a holiday. But why does not som[?]…
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LONDON, Friday (AAP): Christopher Craig, 16, was jailed yesterday "during the Queen's pleasure"…
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ADELAIDE. Friday: In the Criminal Court, Mr. Justice Ligertwood sentenced a sex offender, Louis Waldemar…
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