Two Escape From Court Cells Melbourne
George Edwards, 23, and Leonard Bown, 30, who pleaded guilty to having entered a store at Bright, escaped from the cells of the police…
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Police Were Mightier Than Pen and Bullets Paris
A CORSICAN author, Horace Carduccia, offended at an article by a newspaperman, Henri Danjou, challenged him to a duel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Use Batons Savage Riot Follows Procession AUCKLAND
[?] flying bricks, police used thier before to quell a serious disturbance out de post office to-day. Two police sergeants were severely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Law Notices. Tuesday, February 10. Commonwealth Arbitration Court
At No. 2 High Court, Darlinghurst.—Before his Honor Judge Beeby-At 10.30 a.m.: In the matter of an industrial dispute between the Master Butchers and Allied Trades' Federation of A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →General Butler. Court-martial Cancelled. New York, Feb. 8
A report from Washington says that the Navy Department has withdrawn the courtmartial charges against Major-General Smedley Butler in connection with his attack on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Trial for 'Quake Hero Court Martial For Sloop Stranding!
AUCKLAND, Monday.--The hero of the earthquake, Commander Morgan, of H.M. sloop; Veronica, will be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blew Half His Head Off Grim Suicide Gelignite, Fuse, and Detonator Police Find
Employing a st[?]ct g[?]nite fuse and detonator, a man made certain of death in the scrub at La Perouse yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SEEKS £400 From City Doctor Skeleton Will Grin at Court To-day
Widespread interest in the medical profession has been aroused by a claim for £400, to be heard in the District Court to-day, against a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gaol-Born Twins Save Woman From Gallows Reprieve for Desperate Mother Who Murdered New Life in Death's Shadow Matrons' Verdict Was Saviour LONDON
The birth in prison of twins --a boy and a girl--was the symbol of reprieve from the scaffold for Mrs. Olive Wise,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Must Be Ready to Go On" C.S.M.'s Warning To Police Third Remand
IN granting a remand at the Central Court to-day to February 19, in a case that had previously been remanded on two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District Court. (Before Judge Edwards and Jury.) a Randwick Property. Maher v Clift
This was a claim by Ernest Albert Maher, of Vale-street, Clovelly, land and estate agent, to recover £131/15/ from Albert Clift, of Barry-street, Randwick, builder and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bullets Splinter Stolen Car In Death-Speed City Race Cool Thief's Mad Dash From Police Crashes Into Footpath At 50 Miles An Hour And Says, "Here I Am" Constable's Good Memory
Ignoring bullets which ripped through the bodywork of a stolen car, the driver raced it at breakneck speed through Redfern streets last night in a futile attempt to escape police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court
Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.—For hearing: O'Connor v Mullholland: Tinning v Automatic Bread Baking Co., Ltd. (3 cases); Phillips v Lce Sing;…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Pursue Clue To Murder MELBOURNE
Unsigned letters and anonymous phone calls continue to be sent to police headquarters by people who claim to have knowledge relating to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Plain Murder"
Here Is a crime story quite out of the ordinary. It is a striking study in suspense and terror. There is even more excitement in it than in the average detective story, although the reader…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Murder of Jeweller. Crime Reconstructed by Police. LONDON, Feb. 10
Paris police staged a dramatic reconstruction of the "jewel murder." When Georges Gauchot appenred an angry crowd greeted him with erics of "Death to the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →"Too Tired" to Go to Police Court Coonamble
[?] by Singer for fading in appear at the local court on a chance of drunkenness. He sent a proxy to court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gaol for Fraud NEWCASTLE
At Newcastle Court to-day, Arthur Wilfred Neve, 39, contractor, was sentenced to six months' gaol on each of four charges of false pretences, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Well-to-do Shoplifter. Magistrate's Comments
Emmie Thomas, or Palmer, 50, was fined £5, in default 10 days, at Glebe Police Court, yesterday, for shoplifting at Grace Bros: on February 6…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Forgers' Gaol Invention Anti-forgery Device
AN expert accountant and Inventor of a machine to prevent cheque forgeries has been sent to prison, in America, on a charge of forgery…
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