Theft Hinders Fire Brigade Dorrigo
FIRE destroyed a cottage in the centre of the town last night. The outbreak was discovered when flames were bursting through the walls, and it had…
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Strange Theft. Five Tons of Metal
A big stack of waste metal and discarded metal parts at White Bay, belonging to the Railway Department, has been slowly dissolving into a smaller stack…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Charged with Joy-riding. Dubbo
There was great excitement last night following several burglaries in private houses when a motor car, the property of Alderman J. B. Macdonald, piesident of the Local…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Murder Mystery Toy As Solution
ALBERT Milsom and Henry Fowler, two "ticket-of-leave" men, lately released from an English prison, became suddenly very affluent. As they had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wife's Theft Husband Stood Near S.m. Caustic
WHY didn't you do the stealing and take the penalty instead of letting your wife do it," asked Mr. Camphin S.M., at the Central Court,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Daring Theft at Melb. Bandits in Office Melbourne
DISPLAYING great daring, two masked bandits entered from a back passage office of W. Train and Co., marble merchants, of Sturt Street…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Band Reporter Not for Gaol No Further Action London
THE Government has decided not to proceed further in the case of the "Rand Daily Mail" reporter, Mr. Louw, who was sentenced to six…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In Cellar Police Make an Arrest
The story of an attempted burglary at Woollahra was told at the Central Court to-day when Jacob Benkovitz, aged 33, a tailor, was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Single Man Told He Had a Wife Wrongly Charged, But Words Failed Him
PERTH, Friday.--Edward King licked his lips, but the words wouldn't come when asked to-day how he pleaded to a charge of having failed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Conference Report Again Read in Court
MELBOURNE, Friday.--Two hours were occupied at the hearing of the coal case to-day, in the High Court, in reading the report of a conference…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →May Get Married Court Gives Consent
There was an unusual incident at the Hove Police Court, in the south of England recently when a girl of 19 years applied for permission to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Changing Color of Car Three Men Interrupted by Police
MELBOURNE, Friday.--Some hours after a motor car had disappeared from the city to-day, three men were seen taking the bumper bars from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →High Court. Beeby Award. History of the Trouble. MELBOURNE
A cool change had come over Melbourne during Thursday night and there was some discussion whether the Pull High Court should return to its own new building to continue the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Premier Picks It "Communists Again" Praises the Police What of Wibberley Raid?
THE Premier said yesterday that Cabinet had held a meeting during the day, and serious consideration had been given to police reports…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motors and Motoring Stolen Cars Owner's Cunning Ruse to Trick the Police
The police records show an amazing increase during 1929 in the number of motor vehicles stolen or illegally "borrowed." A total of 2626 motor vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →£100 Fur Coat That Just Vanished Police Still Seek to Solve Vaucluse Mystery
A £100 fur coat, thrown in the scrub off Vaucluse Road, Vaucluse, early in December, is still missing,, The coat, with other goods, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Paper Seller Who Never Swore Made a Good Impression on the Court
Magistrate, court officials, and public sat up when Robert Allen Curry, a news vendor, at Central Police Court yesterday, charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Assaulted by Police Punched on Jaw Grave Charge Man Complains of Inspector "Savage Blow" Cessnock
Apparently humiliated at being out-manoeuvred by the miners, Insptr. Mackay is in a very truculent and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Commercials Stampeded "News" Did It "No Parking" Ban "Help the Police and All Will Be O.k."
WHEN alleged complaints of commercial travellers, sponsored by a scaremongering section of the Press, were referred yesterday to the Acting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Violence on the Coal Fields. Men Brutally Assaulted. March by Thousands of Pickets. Ruse to Mislead Police at Rothbury
Making a surprise descent on Ashtonfields Colliery, near Maitland, yesterday morning, a strong body of pickets from the Newcastle field intercepted a number of miners on their way to work and grossly assaulted them…
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