First Big Blaze of New Year Metter's Building Wiped Out Damage May Exceed £150,000 Flying Embers Cause Other Outbreaks Police and Firemen Make Many Good Rescues
The Labor Daily · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 1
TODAY METTER'S six-storey building in Elizabeth Street, home of stoves and heating appliances, is a blackened shell, with its walls pointing starkly to the sky, as the result of a great fire which broke out there Yesterday afternoon and swept almost…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Racecourse Theft
The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 10
At Randwick races on Saturday Mr. Frank Gahan, of Tattersall's Club, was robbed of a pair of field glasses worth £10,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Murder Charge Darlinghurst Tragedy Mousset in Court
The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 9
With head slightly bowed. Pierre Altrien Mousset aged 32, on a cook appeared before Mr. M. J. McMahon. S.M. at the Central Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court Procedure. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 10
Sir,—As a countryman I wish to protest against the actions of magistrates in city and suburban police courts suspending charges against defendants conditionally on their…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Shot Dead in Street Tragedy at Darlinghurst Frenchman Charged with Murder Man Who Was Called "Froggy"
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 1
During an argument between four boys and a Frenchman in a side street at Darlinghurst yesterday afternoon, a revolver was produced and one of the lads, George Dunne (15), of 263 Crown Street, City, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stole Poppy Dat Money Society Woman Sentenced
The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 3
MRS. EMILY CHALLENGER (69). of independent means, of Goodhawk Road. shepherd's Bush, pleaded guilty at West London police Court to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prisoners Escape. From Bega Gaol. Bega
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 11
Two prisoners, Algenon Frederick Pilkington and Frank Wallace, escaped from the Bega Gaol last night by breaking through the iron bars of their cell and scaling the wall. They…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Alleged Attempted Murder. Adelaide
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 13
A charge of attempted murder was preferred against Edward Villiers in the Adelaide Police Court to-day. He was accused of having shot Harold Henry Hollard, part…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Alleged Assault Writ Against Ex-m.l.a
The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 9
A sequel to an alleged brawl at Parliament House on Christmas Eve occurred to-day, when Mr. W. M. Niland, acting on behalf of John Walter…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Three Months' Gaol Stole Hospital Cabbages Albury
The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 3
Robert Guidy, who was at the Albury Court charged with having stolen two cabbages, worth one shilling, from the garden of the Albury District…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Escape From Gaol Two Men at Large BEGA
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 2
Two prisoners, Pilkington and Wallace, escaped from Bega gaol on Sunday night, by breaking through the fro[?] bars of their cell, and scaling a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Typhoid in Gaol Another Prisoner in Hospital Goulburn Outbreak Goulburn
The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 5
A NOTHER prisoner from Goulburn Gaol has been removed to the District Hospital, This man developed a temperature…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Suspicious Fire. In Bathurst Street. Police Investigation
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 11
The top floor of Oakes Building, a three floored structure at 18-20 Bathurst-street, city, was severely damaged by fire shortly before midnight last night. Firemen from…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Murder Charge. Man Shot Dead. Quarrel Between Italians Perth
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 11
The Coroner at Trayning committed Angelo Delguzzi for trial on a charge of having murdered Sabatino Fattore at North Yelbeni on Christmas Eve…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Seeking Bathurst-road Smash Where Is Motorist?
The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 10
So far the Katoomba police have not been successful in tracking down the motorist who, on the Bathurst-road, near Mount Victoria, on Sunday,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Law Notices Tuesday, January 4, 1927. District Court
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 11
(Before the Deputy Registrar.) At 10.30 a.m., Rule and anor. ats. Automobile Suppliers Associated, Ltd.; at 10.45 a.m.. Baker v. Flana[?]: at 11.5 a.m., Gasco[?]gne v. Newland: at…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"I'm Shot!" Chinese Cook Wounded Man Arrested Attempted Murder Charge Rockhampton
The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 10
Aramac in the Central West, was the scene of a serious shooting affair about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It appears that an employee at the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At the Gap Police Seize Woman, "Going to End It"
Evening News · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 11
ANOTHER woman who contemplated jumping over the Gap, was saved by Constables Gore and Post, of the Vaucluse…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Chef Held on Murder Charge Boy Is Shot Dead Bullet Pierces Heart Alleged Self-defence
The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 1
A fracas between four boys and a man in East Sydney yesterday resulted in the man being charged with murder one of the lads,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Darlinghurst Tragedy Murder Charge Against French Chef Story of Shooting Bail Fixed at £500
Evening News · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 8
PIERRE Titrien Mousset, 32, a French chef, was charged at the Central Court to-day with having murdered George Dunne…
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