Topics The High Court Appointments
THE news that Sir Frank Gavan Duffy, the Senior Judge of the High Court of Australia, had been appointed Chief Justice in succession to Sir Isaacs Isaacs…
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Sensational Are Expected To-day Dean Murder Inquest Melbourne
Sensational evidence is expected at to-morrow's inquest into the death of Mary Dean the Elwood school teacher who was murdered on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Rioters Shot Dead by Police Calcutta
WHEN a mob of 10,000 charged at Begusarai, North Monghyr, the police were forced to fire. The crowd dispersed after five were…
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Charges of drunkenness and indecent language against Constable Arthur Wenham Edmunds, (28), were dismissed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Law Notices. Thursday, January 29. Supreme Court
In Chambers.—Before Mr. Justice Stephen, in the Causes Court, Queen's-square.—At 10 a.m.: Jessop v Jessop, stated case; Stephenson v Stephenson, stated case; Dwyer v Chief Clothing Co.,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Years in Dug-out Hides to Evade Police
A story of a man living for two years in a dug-out, in order to avoid arrest, was told at Portsmouth, when Sidney Charles Warner (33), of Walsingham-street,…
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ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--With the exception of the Commissioner, the salary of every member of the South Australian police force will be cut by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ormond Murder. Writer of Anonymous Letter. Offers to Reveal Wanted Man. Melbourne
The police attach importance to two anonymous letters they have received concerning the death of Adeline Hazel Wilson, 16, which occurred at Ormond on January 10. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Father and Son Family Friction Leads To Court
Friction between a father and his family was ventilated at the Central Summons Court to-day. when Robert Young Garrood, tram driver, charged…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In Maid's Room Cabin Trunk of Goods in Police Haul
IT took two big cabin trunks, five suit cases, and a number of brown paper parcels to remove the goods found, in the bedroom of Edith…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Darwin Communists. Clash with the Police. Red Flag Hauled Down. Darwin
The red flag which was hoisted on the verandah of the Government offices yesterday, was hauled down this afternoon, after the police had made a baton charge on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Strikers Try to Wreck Train Loyalists and Police Get Volley of Stones
BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Sensational developments marked the passage of a special tram taking loyalist shearers from Emerald to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Cases Against Constable Charges Withdrawn In Court Dept. to Hear
THERE was an unexpected denouement at the Central Court to-day, when Constable Arthur Wenham…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crying Girl at 12.30 a.m. Night of Elwood Murder St. Kilda Scenes Man and Two Women on Station Inquest Stories Melbourne
HARRY COLE, boardinghouse keeper of St. Kilda, said at the Elwood inquest to-day that he was on the railway station on the night of November 20 and saw a woman aged about 40 or 50, similar in age to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Poison Mystery. Man Charged with Attempted Murder. MILTON
A man has been arrested in connection with the attempt to poison a family at Yadboro, near Milton. About three weeks ago John J. Rixon, his…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Find Poison Attempted Murder Charge After Family Illness
The discovery yesterday of a bottle of poison hidden in the butt of an old tree led to the arrest. on a charge of attempted murder, of James…
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Francis Gregory O'sullivan, 25, a clerk in the Government Savings Bank of New South Wales, was charged at the Central Police Court yesterday with embezzling £ 420/9/ from…
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John Brown Tennent, 38, company manager, charged at Central Court yesterday with having stolen £10,000, the property of Leopold Rosengarten…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Darwin Communists. Remanded by Magistrate. DARWIN
Following the affray with pollco on the verandah of the Government offices yesterday, a number of Communists were brought before the magistrate to-day and remanded in custody…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Kogarah Police Court. Tuesday, January 27, 1931. (Before Mr. Scobie, S.M.)
Edward George Lupper was fined 10/- with 5/6 costs, for cutting the dome at Bay Street, Brighton-le-Sands, while driving a motor car on…
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