Daring Bank Bandits Daylight Robbery £9000 Stolen Police Next Door
The most extracrdinary cerise of daring bank robberies have been reperted from various parts of the United States…
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N.Z. Court Impartiality Challenged Wellington (N.z.)
The Alliance Labor Conference carried a resolution of protest against the Arbitration Court's stated refusal to afford the workers' representatives an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tracking Down a Ghost. Royal Spectres at Hampton Court
There are strange ghosts reputed to be haunting Hampton Court Palace. Twenty years ago two of the most reputable ladies having suites of rooms saw a…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →About a Dog. Lidcombe Residents in Court. "Bring the Horse in Too."
A stranger to Parranatta on Thursday might have been excused for mistaking the local Court House for a sale yard. Within the presidents of the Temple of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An Order for Goods in Another's Name. Young Married Woman Before the Court
Jesse Isabel Page, a young married woman, 10 years of age, appeared at Penrith Court on Monday morning, before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.M., on a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jewels Vanish from Rose Bay Hat-Box Italian Houseman Charged With Stealing £4000 Swag from Wealthy Compatriots. Chase to Melbourne
The Avanzos have been out from Italy for 12 months. That they are people of considerable me ans is evidenced by the fact that the lady's jewellery, to the value of over £4000, was recently stolen. Although understood to be a lady of title with ample estates in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Almost a Habit Man Sentenced for Bigamy HOBART
A self-confessed bigamist, Parker Brown, a middle-aged man, will for the next two years have time for reflection in Hobart Gaol, to which he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Finger-prints on the Door-pane Burglary Charge at Newtown. Boulton Committed
I have had over 17 years' experience in finger prints, and I am solely employed in classifying and comparing finger prints; and I find…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Seven Years' Gaol Girl Who Stole Ring HOBART
Una May Wills, aged 23, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Crisp to seven years' imprisonment for the theft of a diamond ring, valued at £60, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Enjoyed Bottomley Boy Wants to go to Gaol LONDON
A youth was charged at Ramsgate with stealing his mother's, cashbo[?] and who had previously abscond[?] four times from a training school,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Month's Gaol Driver Convicted on Charge of Cruelty to Horse
"One horse is in a terrible state: one sore has been there for months. the collar has never been attended to or cleaned. The sore on the horse's…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Crime As a Learned Profession Chat with Berlin Police Chief How Shopkeepers Work in Gangs—Animals Are Trained to Assist in Theft (Part Ii.)
Even more daring than house burglary, and equally well organised, and just as dependent upon skill and ingenuity, is modern shop-lifting. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Four in a Bed Two Unsophisticated Young Men Seek Excitement and Find It—Gladys Paul Charged with Stealing Wallet of Notes—Shrewd Bushie Plants Wealth in His Boots But it Vanishes. Gay Time at Palmer Street Dwelling
Cunning overmatched cunning with very profitable results on the night of December 28, or the early morning of December 29. Two ladies whose views on mortality are, apparently not puritanical so to speak—and two brothers in search of excitement, comprised the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →False Teeth Vanish Lads, in Bath Raises Hue and Cry. Belgian Picture Proprietor Charged at Burwood
When Richard the Lion-Hearted returned from hie crusades, he found all sorts of troubles awaiting to meet him on his arrival in…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →King Richard's Law Invoked Rosebery Pony Owner Charged with Breaking and Entering Own Property. Tenant-Trainer's Complaint
A most unusual story of a horse-training dispute between two former friends in the racing world engaged the attention of Mr. Le Brun Brown, D.S.M., at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wanted to Buy Fags Husband Sued for Maintenance Pays 2/6 Weekly for T.P. Furniture, But 6/- for Smokes. Magistrate's Query
ASTONISHMENT was expressed by the Bench at the South Melbourne Court recently, when a young man, who was being sued for the maintenance of his wife and child, said that he paid half-a-crown a weak on time-payment furniture and six shillings a week for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Bluffing the Eternal Sea." Friend of Empress Life at Russian Court New Stories of Czar's Family
MME. ANNA VIROUBOVA, the intimate friend of the Tsarina, and once depicted as a monster of depravity, in her "Memories of the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →China's Secret Societies Hongkong Police Chief Chats About Brigands, Blackmailers and Murderers Smuggled Automatic Revolvers Are Superseding Knife As Weapon of Attack
"I have never been a better country than China. I have seen many not so good. The East is the place to live. I could give you a headache with figures about its progress. What a great chance there is for your people to send a live business man to Hongkong…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court
Queen'ssquare.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate. —At. 10 a.m.: For hearing—N.S.W. Railway and Tramway Ofllcers' Association V Shields, same V Lipscomb, same v Young, same v McDonnell, same v…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Glenferrie Murder Echo Arrest Outside Gaol Angus Murray Mentioned Melbourne
Albert Edward Arms, a well-dressed, young chauffeur, appeared at the City Court to-day charged with loitering in a public place with, intent to commit…
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