Three Gaoled for Life Queensland Murder Case
BRISBANE, Monday — Mrs. Sylvia Joyce Ferguson, her lover, and another man have been sentenced to life imprisonment…
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Tumblong Girl Causes Police Search Changed Trains Here
While Wagga police were searching for a 17-year-old girl who "disappeared" in Wagga on Friday night, she was sitting in…
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SYDNEY, Monday — Mr. Justice Francis Aloysius Dwyer, puisne judge or the Supreme Court, died lost night, aged 51…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court of Petty Sessions (Before Mr. Keith Smith, S.m.) Friday, 13th NOVEMBER Insufficient Means of Support
Henry Augustus Wilkinson (44) and Kevin Horsley (35) were charged with having insufficient lawful means of support…
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SYDNEY, Monday: A detective told Central Court today that when he had suggested to a suspect that about £10,000 worth of goods had been stolen from a store, the man replied: "More like…
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IN the Gundagai Court of Petty Sessions this morning a young car thief was sentenced to six monthsâ hard labor. A stranger to Gundagai, the young fellow was…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: Supreme Court Judge, Mr. Justice Francis Aloysius Dwyer, died early this morning, aged 51…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Former Leichhardt Mayor in Court
SYDNEY, Monday: Edward Charles Erwin, former Mayor of Leichhardt, had received £200 for having helped to secure a rescission by council of a decision to refuse an application to build garage premises, Mr. A. Larkins, barrister, told Central…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Drunk at Time of Fatal Crash, Court Told
MELBOURNE, Monday: A 46-yeor-old storeman charged with the manslaughter of an elderly woman his car struck, allegedly told police he had no recollection of events after leaving a hotel half an hour earlier…
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ROCKHAMPTON, Tuesday: A 14-year-old Boy Scout was found guilt by a Supreme Court jury today of having…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: The death sentence was passed on a 24-year-old miner in Central Criminal Court today after he…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday: A 28-year-old prisoner escaped from the Healesville Police Station today by squeezing…
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Mr. A. V. Quiggin, S.M., in yesterday's Wagga Court of Petty Sessions dismissed a charge of negligent driving against George K. Barnewell, Pearson Street, The Rock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Witness was approached, say police
SYDNEY, Tuesday: A police prosecutor in Central Police Court today alleged a witness in a robbery case had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gun Discharged During Coroner's Court Sitting
At the Coroner's Court the deputy-Coroner, Mr. G. A. Goodwin, was given a demonstration of how easily a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drovers sent to gaol
MELBOURNE, Wed.: Two Foung Wentworth (N.S.W.) drovers were sent to gaol for three months in Mlldura…
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DIGNE (Southern France). Wed. A.A.P.-Reuter): Seventy-seven-years-old Gaston Dominld held in a…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday: A 46-year-old car driver, convicted in the Criminal Court today of the manslaughter of…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday: A taxi-driver who was a prison-of-war for 3½ years said today that even the Emperor of Japan would have "Buckley's chance" of hiring his cab…
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One of the landholders against whom the Gundagai P.P. Board have taken out a prosecution for alleged…
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