Two Prominent Week-enders Charged with Conspiracy
Sunday Times · Sunday 13 February 1927 · page 2
Sydney Madden, Managing-Director of the Week-Ender Publishing Coy., which publishes the "Week-Ender," and James Victor Turner, secretary to the company, will assuredly go the way of most of those whoso weak-end is the dominating factor in life— the brain— if what the police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Ascension Prisoner's Painting in Bathurst Gaol Fortune Behind Bars
The Sun · Sunday 13 February 1927 · page 24
The Governor of Bathurst Gaol (Mr. George Smith), with the concurrence of the Minister for Justice (Mr. McKell), and the Comptroller-General of Prisons (Mr. Steele)--whose term, by the way, has just been extended beyond the retiring age--…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Revolt Over All Leaders Caught Doorstep Murder London
The Sun · Sunday 13 February 1927 · page 1
The Portuguese Revolution is now over, and all revoluntary leaders have been arrested with the exception of Commander Carvalho, who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →He Played False with Friend and Got 12 Months' Gaol Wollongong
Sunday Times · Sunday 13 February 1927 · page 1
For stealing a suit case containing clothes and a sum of money from a man who had befriended him, Harry Frith was sentenced to 12 months' hard labor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jugo-slav Police Find New Trade Sofia
Sunday Times · Sunday 13 February 1927 · page 5
The Jugo-Slav police have uncovered an International organisation engaged in the white slave traffic at Scopie. Macedonia. Documents seized by the police reveal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Police War on Art Magazines New York
Sunday Times · Sunday 13 February 1927 · page 5
The Atlanta police department has declared war on so-called "art" magazines, and hundreds of those have been confiscated from the news stands and burned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Double Murder Dreadful Discovery in Fremantle Hotel Mother and Son Killed Grim End to Pretty Woman's Gay Life
Truth · Sunday 13 February 1927 · page 6
The discovery in a bedroom of a Fremantle hotel of the dead bodies of a young woman of 24 and her four-years-old son has brought to light one of the most fiendish acts of murder in the criminal annals of the State—and West Australia has a grim record. The history of the murdered Woman provides a sad, but sordid story, and the dreadful slaughter of the little…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Adelaide Mystery Jeweller Robbed and Murdered Was a Sydney Man Strange Aspects of Grim Grime Puzzle Police
Truth · Sunday 13 February 1927 · page 17
ADELAIDE has had four tragedies in four months, but the latest—the strange murder of Caption John Hindmarsh—bids fair to outdo all the mysteries of popular detective fiction. The police profess to have clues which they are sanguine will…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Salesman Sentenced
The Sun · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 9
Sentence of six months hard labor was passed at the Central Police Court today on Frank Shiel (32) a salesman. He was charged with…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 12
Ada Goodin, aged 38, has reported to the police that while she was proceeding to her home in illawarra-road, Marrickville, shortly after 6 o'clock on Saturday night she was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →By Whose Hand? Hindmarsh Murder Police Still Baffled Adelaide
The Labor Daily · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 1
No development has occurred during the week-end relative to the Hindmarsh murder case. The police arc still keeping under…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Convicts Save Gaol Bathurst
The Sun · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 10
When a fire broke out on the Bathurst golf links yesterday, the governor of the gaol sent out 20 prisoners to fight the flames, which came within 100…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Robbed Gas Meter Dealer Sent to Gaol
Evening News · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 8
ACCORDING to evidence at the Central Court to-day, Elsie Hanshaw, of Ultimo-road, Ultimo, heard a noise in her front room on February 2…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Missing Boy Police Searching
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 11
The Baimain police are looking for Frederick George Behrmann (8), whose parents deside at 153 Bowntree Street, Balmain, and who has been missing…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sequel to Murder. Suspect Found Dead. PERTH
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 11
Dead from a bullet wound in the head, the body of Jack Thomas was found late on Saturday afternoon lying among rushes growing along the South Perth foreshore…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Lives in Peril Through Theft of Gear Surf Club Suffers Bondi Reel Stolen
Evening News · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 8
THE Bondi Life-Saving Club has once again suffered through a dastardly theft. This time a reel, line, and belt has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →From Gaol Cell Mayor Will Govern Popular Rum-runner Edgewater (New Jersey)
Evening News · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 1
ARRANGEMENTS are being made to enable Mayor Wishel, who has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment for rum-running, to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bayonet Wound in Domestic Row Husband in Hospital' Wife Is Charged Melbourne
Evening News · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 7
LILLIAN M'MURTRIE, wife of Thomas M'Murtrie, a partner in a Flinders-lane firm, was charged at the City Court to-day with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Grass Court Teams v Hard Courts
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 15
The match between teams representing the New Smith Wales Lawn Tennis Association and the Combined Hard Court Association was played on Saturday at Rushcatter Bay, and resided to a win for the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Nudes Draped Police Raid Spicy Shows Play for Jury New York
The Sun · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 8
Night clubs have begun to drape their nudes since the police have started raiding tho spicy shows. Max Steuer, the attorney for sex…
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