Blue Eyed Girl Free of Murder Charge Freed by Magistrate Who Refused to Accept Alleged Amazing Confession "Contains Several Statements Which Police Believe to Be, and Probably Are, False," Says Bench Sobs and Kisses When Girl Is Acquitted Leslie A. SKILBECK
Truth · Sunday 18 January 1931 · page 11
THROUGH the centuries the administration of Justice has left its wake of unique legend. Oft it has stripped fiction barren of thrill; left it void and empty with real life illustrations of those weird twists that sometimes force the human mind to the perpetration of extraordinary deeds .... Strange and unaccountable have been many of these incidents in the calendar of crime, but search as you will, from the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Suicide's Mother and His 14-Year-old Girl Friend Did Not Speak Petty Theft That Led to Dastardly Murder and a Coward's Death Epilogue of Grim Drummoyne Drama
Truth · Sunday 18 January 1931 · page 17
LAST scenes of a drama in which both the principal actors met death by violence were played at the Coroner's Court last week, when a double inquest on the bodies of a very old woman and a very young and misguided man was held by the City Coroner, Mr. E. A. May…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Search Ends Girl Murder Clue Arrest Soon Melbourne
The Sun · Sunday 18 January 1931 · page 5
An arrest in the Hazel Wilson murder case is likely within 48 hours. The police expect soon to establish the identity of the young man…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Arrest Within 48 Hours Move Expected in Ormond Murder
Daily Pictorial · Sunday 18 January 1931 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Saturday.--An arrest in the Hazel Wilson murder case is likely in the next 48 hours. THE police to-day definitely…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →She Didn't Hear Little Edna and Three Months' Gaol Smiles; Screams
Truth · Sunday 18 January 1931 · page 10
EDNA'S a nice girl—but she's terribly deaf. No whispering sweet nothings in Edna's shell-shaped ear on the gas box. Love Edna and all the world…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At Bay Shots in Empty House Police Rush 'Had Gun and Stiletto'
The Sun · Sunday 18 January 1931 · page 1
Police rushed into an empty house in Warne-street, Surry Hills, last night, and overpowered a man sitting at the top of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne's Third Girl-murder Latest Ormond Outrage Baffles Victoria's Criminal Authorities Father Sees Strange Spectacle From Window
Truth · Sunday 18 January 1931 · page 13
SO murder in its foulest form stalks abroad in Melbourne once again. Superstitious people said…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Hospital Case After Rush for Beer Blood Flows When Police Come On Scene
Daily Pictorial · Sunday 18 January 1931 · page 3
A rush for beer at an hotel near Central Railway Station yesterday afternoon caused such congestion that a brawl broke out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Caught On Barbed Wire in Raid "Over the Top'' in Chinese Gardens
Daily Pictorial · Sunday 18 January 1931 · page 3
LIKE a war-time sortie was a police, raid last night on Chinese gardens at Botany. Sergeant Hungerford and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Burst Into House With Sledge-hammer Police Arrest 22 Alleged "Two-up" Players
Daily Pictorial · Sunday 18 January 1931 · page 3
BURSTING in the door with a sledge-hammer, police at midnight captured 22 alleged "two-up" players in a Randwick bungalow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When Killing Is Not Murder "To Protect His Mother" Balmain Boy Inadvertently Slays Fighting Fireman "Justifiable Homicide," Says Coroner
Truth · Sunday 18 January 1931 · page 18
HOW far can one human being go, in defence of another, and still remain unscathed of the law? IS it justifiable for a son to kill in order to protect his mother? DOES our law correspond with nature's, which ordains that child and parent are entitled to slay in defence of…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Chaining Up Kings in our Savage [?]Nheim Land with the Police Patrols in the Sun-scorched North
The Sun · Sunday 18 January 1931 · page 19
CITY mounted constables of procession day, riding a charger up and down the barriers and waving back the populace with white gloves, are…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →"Truth" Gets in Hot Water for Defending Confidence Reluctance to Give Name of Informant in Bank Robbery Case Causes S.M. to Quote Law Dramatic Moments at Court Hearing
Truth · Sunday 18 January 1931 · page 18
THE dramatic interruption of a big city bank robbery during the Christmas week-end due to information conveyed to "Truth," and passed on by this paper to the police, marked the commencement of a series of incidents almost without parallel in the history of crime detection in Australia, and also in the annals of journalism…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 8
Queeu's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Sharp v Booth, O'Gradey v Moore, same v S. P Bray. Ltd., same v Ashley (4 cases), same v White (3…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Leave the Court!" Nodding at Witness Magistrate Saw It
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 1
Caught nodding and shaking his head while his daughter was giving evidence, James Ernest Roberts, complainant in a tenancy case, was ordered out of the court…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fruit Stealing Youthful Offenders
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 1
Three boys, whose ages rouged from 11 to 14, were charged at Ryde Police Court with stealing fruit from the garden of the Home for Incurables at Ryde…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Theft of Shirts. Lithgow
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 12
At Lithgow Police Court yesterday John Christopher Rose was fined £2, in default 14 days' imprisonment, on a charge of stealing six shirts, the property of Leo Karp…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Alleged Theft From Employer. Perth
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 17
Agnes Clarke, 21, domestic, was arrested yesterday on a charge of having stolen £100, the property of Mrs. Margaret Lyons, of Belmont, by whom she had been employed…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Petty Fraud Man Sent to Gaol
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 1
Stating that he wanted to ring up his employer in connection with a quantity of Iron—he said he hid received the wrong kind—James Frank Flaherty obtained 2/-…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Constable Faces Charges in Police Court "Drunkenness : Bad Language" Case Adjourned
Evening News · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 1
CONSTABLE Arthur Wenham Edmund 28, described on the police sheet as a laborer, was charged at Central Court…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →