Divorce Followed by Murder Vienna, November 25
Anton Cillo, a well-to-do business man of Trieste, shot his former wife in one of the chief streets of the city during a dispute about their six-year-old child…
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Daring Escape of Convicts. Arms Procured and Prison Guards Bound. Gaol Looted. Vladimir, November 27
Thirty-five convicts in the prison to-day seized and tied up the governor, his two subordinates, and all the Inspectors, and escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Murder Re-enacted. Hysterical Prisoner Kills an Imaginary Victim. Vienna, November 26
Francisca Klein, who was sentenced to penal servitude for life last April far the murder of Johann Sokora, a wealthy old man, has, in a fit of madness, re-enacted…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Week's Miscellany: a Compilation of the News of the World. Murder and Execution for 3d. Chinese Gambling Dispute
The execution of a Chinaman turned Look Kow for murder at Townsville, took place in the Brisbane Gaol on Monday morning. The murder was committed early on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →St. Petersburg Tragedy The Murder of the Prefect the Victim's Coat of Mail London, Saturday, 6.40 a.m
Later details of the assassination or general von der Launitz, Prefect of St. Petersburg, who was shot during the consecration of a new building, show that at the time of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Zealous Police at Tamworth
Complaints are being made at Tamworth of overzealousness on the part of some of the members of the police force stationed there, says our correspondent. The cells were pretty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Litvinoff's Murder. Caucasian Vengeance. for Horrible Crimes
LONDON, Sunday Evening.—The three assassins of M. Litvinoff, Governor of Akmolinsk, Central Asia, who was killed outside the administrative office at Omsk, were…
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James Drummond of Devon-street Plattaburg coal miner, Mr. L.T. Lloyd, official assignee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →St. Petersburg Murder. Victim's Coat of Mail. London, Jan. 5
General von der Launitz, Prefect of St. Petersburg, who was assassinated on Thursday, wore a coat of mall. He was shot in the head and the neck…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Mosman Sensation. Bomb Under a House. Police Hate a Clue
A somewhat sensational discovery was made by two children of a Mosman resident on Friday evening. While they were playing, the youngsters, aged 6 and 10 respectively, got…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sutherland' Sentenced
James Sutherland, commercial traveller, will on Monday, at the Water Police Court, pleads guilty to stealing a quantity of boots from the firm of Messrs. E. E. Sayer and Company, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stealing a Purse
At the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M., Arthur Riley, 43, labourer, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for stealing a purse and the sum of 30s, the property of William…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stealing From Empty Houses
Thomas Horton, 22, labourer, was yesterday, at the Piddington Police Court, charged with stealing a copper boiler from an unoccupied house at Windsor-street. Paddington, on December 19. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Unprovoked Assault on a Constable
A young fellow named John M'Carthy, otherwise Thomas Williams, was charged at the Water Police Court this morning with unlawfully assaulting Constable Bruce…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hotelkeeper Assaulted Labourer Sent to Gaol
John Donnelly, a labouring man, was charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having assaulted Victor Van[?] and breaking a mirror, four glasses, and two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Who Stoned the Constable? Magistrate Says Mistaken Identity
At Glebe Police Court this morning, a young man named Lennox Nesbitt, bootmaker, residing at 135 Campbell-street, Glebe, was proceeded against by summons on a charge that he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girl Charged with Housebreaking. Father Prosecutes His Daughter
At the Redfern Police Court this morning a rather prepossessing girl named Eva Hore, 18, married, was charged with breaking and entering the dwelling house of Oscar Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Parramatta Licensing Court
At the Parramatta Licensing Court on Monday, before Mr. W. Clarke, D.S.M., and Messrs. C. J. Byrnes and W. A. M'Donald, Js.P., Licensing Magistrates, Marian Hodgson applied for the renewal of the publican's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Courts. Committed for Trial
At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. S[?]thers, S.M. George Brown, alias John O'Kieffe, James Smith, or John O'Brien, 28, fitter, was committed for trial on a charge of breaking and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Burglary on a Mailboat Robbers Miss 1000 Pounds But Get Away with Surgical Instruments
An unsuccessful but daring attempt to rob the safe in the purser's offi[?] the American mall steamer Sierra has just been reported to the police. Although gaining an…
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