Missing Police Constable Arrested
BRISBANE, Wednesday—A former NSW police constable, Reginald Moulden Green (29), was charged at Bundaberg…
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Judge praises police force
MAITLAND, Tues.: Freedom from crime was due primarily to the sense of law and order of citizens, and secondly to the efficiency of the police force, Mr…
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MAITLAND, Wednesday— Freedom from crime was due primarily to the sense of law and order of citizens, and…
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Junee police have been called in to investigate the poisoning of certain town street trees…
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ALBURY, Tuesday: Three witnesses told the Supreme Court here today that a man who had fallen into a creek on the Tumborumba Showground in March…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday—A Supreme Court jury yesterday awarded £28,12 to a crippled Orange motor-cyclist. The cyclist, Kenneth Alla Roach, Racecourse road,…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday—James Robert Walker, the murderer who begged the Government to carry out the death sentence passed on him, shot himself through the mouth with a smuggled…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Thieves last night stole £30,000 from a mailbag consigned by train to the Commonwealth Bank, Sydney, from Katoomba. Detectives from the C.I.B…
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SYDNEY, Thursday—A criminal with a grudge against the police may have been responsible for throwing a bomb…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Detectives investigating the £30,000 mail bag robbery are now certain the theft occurred at Katoomba…
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A Hanwood carrier, Guilo Cunial, was charged at the Griffith Police Court on Friday morning last with…
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MELBOURNE. Thursday: A Criminal Court Jury to-day found Kilmore wood carter of aboriginal descent…
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A plea of guilty was entered by Octavius Clarke, of Betbungra, in the Cootamundra Court when he…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Did Young Man Cause Bush Fire? Arrived in court in Cowboy Clothes
It was on Monday, 21st. December, a hot and windy day, that a grass fire broke out on the Alston Estate,…
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SYDNEY, Friday: A 38-years-old man was today sentenced to 12 years' gaol on three charges of having…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Police inquiries, are being made into allegations in a Sydney morning newspaper that a "phoney" raid was made on Sydney's biggest two-up…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: Homicide detectives are intensifying their search for Francis O'Keefe, alias Patrick John…
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Junee police will be cooperating in the State-wide campaign to reduce the toll of accidents on the road…
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SYDNEY, Monday— A 24-year-old laborer appeared in the Central criminal court today oh a charge, of having murdered…
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A husband's right to use force on his wife—even firing a few bullets into the furniture to emphasise his arguments—…
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