Betting Charge Is Dismissed Money Taken On Non-Starter Police Story
THERE was a sensational climax to a charge against William Goodman, 49, tailor, of being in Elizabeth Street for…
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Suicide in a Car Believed Police Theory Of Explosion Tragedy Man's Death
FOLLOWING exhaustive inquiries, police believe that Jack E. Sabine, 40, poultry farmer, and former well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman's Appeal for Gun Police Refusal Of Licence Is Reversed Money in Home
THE refusal of the police to grant the renewal of a revolver licence was overridden by Mr. Sheridan, S.M., at Redfern…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Olive Branch From L.T.A. INVITES H. Court Players To Compete In Badge Games End Friction
NEGOTIATIONS between the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association and the N.S.W. Hard Court Tennis Association for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Body Exhumed by Torchlight Aboriginal Is Charged with Murder Brisbane
An officer of the Queensland police, accompanied by two native boys, left Townsville for Fantome Island, and by torchlight exhumed the body of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bailiff with a Gun Magistrate's Stem Rebuke
"IF the possession of goods is to be obtained under the muzzles of loaded pistols, and other parties are threatened with death,…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Case Against Constable Seaman's Assault Charge Fails
REMARKING on a considerable conflict of evidence. Mr. Reed. S.M., discharged Constable John Joseph Pearson (No. 3 Station), who appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Two Women Dead Charge Of Wife-Murder
A PATHETIC story was related to the Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark) when he inquired last week into the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Glasses May Be Clue In Murder MELBOURNE
During the next few days the Government Analyst's department will examine nearly 30 articles taken from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sought for Vicarage Murder Man With Anti-Religious Mania
POLICE activities in the Melbourne vicarage murder case are now confined to the search for one man. Officers investigating the brutal slaying of the Rev. H. Laceby Cecil are convinced that their task will near its end…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Desperate Attempt to Break Gaol Man Flourished a Dummy Gun Shooting at Vaucluse
INTO THREE FLEETING MINUTES last Saturday night at the Parramatta Gaol was packed a tense and thrilling drama. Driven by desperation, a life prisoner made a daring…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Shocked Court Asked Officials If They Worked
TOWNSVILLE, Saturday.--Asked if he had anything to say, Victor Hudson (33), one of five "rattler jumpers," in court here, retorted,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Constable Bitten by Man Blood Poisoning; Police Seek Culprit Perth
Plain-clothes Constable Handcock arrested a man on an obscene language charge a week ago. During the process the man bit the constable on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Her Dream Castles Crashed Bogus Young "Doctor Is Exposed Whirlwind Courtship That Ended In Court
TO have cherished hopes of wedded bliss as the wife of a successful medico; to have advanced money to her fiance, whom she believed to be a wealthy man, and then to have her dream castles crumble before a cruel deception, was the experience of a beautiful young Canterbury…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wife's Plea For Permanent Alimony Echo of Walsh Divorce Ladies' Handbag Trade Probed By Court
NOWADAYS a handbag—to tone, as the "social" writers have it—is an indispensable part of every well-dressed woman's attire. It is the vogue. And, incidentally, this vogue makes for a large and…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Man's Outburst in Court Impertinent, Declared Magistrate Townsville
"Has it ever occurred to you people to work for a living?" said Victor Hudson, 33, who, with four men, appeared on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Second Break From Gaol Police Guard Over Steamer Darwin
Robert Stewart, who was serving a sentence for breaking and entering, escaped from Fanny Bay Gaol late yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"A Whipping" Magistrate's Censure Cruelty Charge
"I can't understand anyone with any human feelings doing a thing like that; the proper thing to do would be to give you a whipping,"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prisoner's Escape From Darwin Gaol. DARWIN
Darwin police are endeavouring to find Clive Robert Stewart, a prisoner, who escaped from the Fanny Bay Gaol on Friday afternoon. They are being assisted by gaol warders…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Courts. Shoplifting
At the Central Police Court on Saturday. Lily Munro, 35, and Mabel Jones, 24, domestics, for stealing goods to the value of £1/13/2. the property of Woolworths, Ltd., were each…
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