Police View Premature Explosion
The official police report simply states:-- "About 8.40 p.m. an explosion occurred in Livingston's paddock…
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The Melting Pot Retort Court-eous
"WELL-BEHAVED citizens, instead of taking the law into their own hands, will call a policeman to deal with the trouble." -- Melbourne magistrate…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Police Have Exciting Chase Suspect Gunman Revolved Seized
"I AM looking for a bloke to settle a debt with him," was the grim reply of an alleged gunman in William Street yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Latitude Nude Bathers Warned If Police Know
"If ever the police discover nude bathing, I will take definite action, very promptly." This warning was given to-day by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Deliberate? Woman's Fatal Fall Police Puzzled Adelaide
Though the police are still mystified as to how Mrs. Lillian Higgs, 26, who was killed by her fall from the big dipper at Luna…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Escape From Gaol. Convict's Amazing Feat. Four Locks Opened. Two High Walls Scaled. Adelaide
After having opened four locks and forced aside the iron bars stretched across the top of a small exercise yard, Ernest Albert Richards, 28, escaped from one of the strongest…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hip Pocket Style Double-barrelled Gun Found by Police
After they had seized a revolver found on a man at King's Cross yesterday, detectives went to his flat, where they found a double-barrelled…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →EXPLOSIVES Seized by Police. House Like an Arsenal. Melbourne
Enough explosives to cause a terrific detonation and great loss of life and damage to property were seized by the police at a house at Footscray early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Women Police More Important Posts Filled by Members of the Force
While the addition of more policewoman to the small groups already formed in most capitals in Australia still continues to be one of the aims that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CHICAGO. Financial Difficulties. Unfavourable Court Decision. New York, Jan. 1
Chicago is again in financial difficulties owing to the refusal of bankers to buy tax warrants, and to the draining of the Civic and School Board Treasuries to give employees half…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Used Home As Arsenal Huge Ammunition Stocks Found by Police in Man's House
MELBOURNE, Friday.--Wireless patrol police found a miniature arsenal at the home of a man they had stopped and questioned in a street at Footscray at 2 a.m. to-day. THE man was carrying a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gandhi's Noise Kept Neighbors In Paris Awake Court Case London
Gandhi, the toothless, impeccable Mahatma, has been involved in a charge of "tapage nocturne" (in plain English,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hint of Sinister Plot Against Farmer Peakhurst Explosion Was It Gelignite or a Fireball? Previous Fire Outbreaks and Theft Two Men Seen Near the Spot
WAS there a sinister motive behind the terrific explosion in the paddock at Peakhurst, which shook the surrounding districts last night? Events that have occurred on the property where the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →King Surf Held His Court New Year Crowds at the Beaches a Perfect Day
From Palm Beach to Cronulla, the glorious beaches were thronged on a never to-be-forgotten New Year's Day, by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Savings Bank Transfer and Its Strange Sequel Transferer Takes Man to Court and Gets Writ for £1000 Bus Driver's Strange Experience
THE singular experience of Ethelbert Nunn, an unemployed 'bus driver, living with relatives in High Street, Willoughby, may be instructive to Government Savings Bank depositors who are considering selling out in response to the numerous invitations that appear…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Courts Asked To Coerce Baddeley In Lucknow Hocus-Pocus Was Bungendore Key Clue Ignored? Sydney Locksmith Gave the Tip But Police Had to Drag in Scotland Yard
SIX weeks after the finding of the incinerated remains of a human being in the ashes of a fire near Bungendore, the detectives have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police and Nude Cult
Referring to recent complaints about nude, bathers on George's River, the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) said yesterday that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sequel to Wild Rumpus In City Wine Bar Magistrate Brought Grounds Down to Earth
HEAVILY-BUILT, half-bald, and with his left eye missing, Alfred Grounds, despite his 53 years of age, looked a pretty tough proposition when he stood in the dock at the Central Police Court last Week. TWO counts brought him before Mr. Williams, S.M.; assaulting Yves…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sterling Man and Diplomat Police Force Mourns Bert Fortescue
"BERT" FORTESCUE, Secretary of the Police Association, has signed off life's beat; the association has lost an unrelenting advocate; the community…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Club Was Used on Native Alleged Victim of Police Boy
DARWIN, Saturday.--A brutally tragic assault was committed last week upon an aged and partially deaf aboriginal, "Cockatoo" Charlie,…
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