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AFTER strange depths of human sorrow had been plumbed, John Elgar Thomas Cottell, one-legged fuel merchant, at Brisbane Police Court last week, was committed for trial on a charge of murdering the wife he madly loved, and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A CLEAR brain, dauntless courage, an infinite capacity for taking pains, and organising ability above the average, enabled Hilton Barkley, one of the most desperate criminals of the day, to cut his way out of a Black Maria about three weeks ago, and escape from that prison van, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Apart altogether from its merits, the case of "The Prisoner of the Tower of London," is causing world-wide interest. Daily, sightseers have been morbidly interested in being allowed to watch Lieut. Normal Baillie- Stewart, Seaforth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Detective Baxter, Detective-sergeant Sherringham, and Detective McGill have been investigating several reports that consignors of goods at a country railway station had…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Four hours after a man was reported to have "milked" a car of its petrol in Darlinghurst and driven away in another car the Eastern…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →John Malcolm Hayes reported to the police that he was assaulted while travelling in a train between Cabramatta and Liverpool on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →There has been many cases of wheat stealing in the surrounding districts, and several farmers have been victimised. In one case 10 bags of wheat were stolen from a waggon…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"As the Devil Commands," which heads the Haymarket's new bill, has Alan Dinchart cast as a crafty murderer, and Neil…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →John Joseph Arnaut, 73, a Syrian, known as Jack Josephs, appeared in the Townsville Police Court yesterday charged with having unlawfully attempted to kill Francis R…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →So successful was Saturday's police sports that it seems certain that the event will be an annual one. "It was a credit to the organisers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Jewellery valued at £1000 was stolen early yesterday morning from Harry Landis' pawnshop in Elizabeth Street…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Throughout the week-end detectives worked unceasingly in an endeavour to elucidate the mysterious circumstances of the death of Florence May Matthews, 21, of Cheltenham,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Constable Higgs said to-day that he had been too surprised to think what he was going to do with the money. He was not, however, going to leave…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In 1912 the first police and firemen's carnival was organised at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show Ground. Later the two services separated and individual gatherings were promoted. These…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE risk of death from starvation in the desert or a term of imprisonment for travelling on trains without paying their fore, is the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TERM LIST.--Banco Court, 10.--Criminal appeal: R. V. Grierson (part heard). Not before noon.--Motions generally, Motions: In re a solicitor, ex parte the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Becoming violently ill yesterday morning after eating a lolly, Mary O'Leary, aged 10, of Flora Street, Erskineville, died…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stepping out of the northern train with a pretty 14-year-old girl at Central Railway Station yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Badly burned on the upper part of his body when his clothes caught alight at his home…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Keen resentment was expressed at the Federal Arbitration Court's decision not to hear a general application for the restoration of the…
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