Police Bullet Wounds Man. Condition Critical
A bullet which ricochetted 200 'yards from a police pistol, critically wounded Mr. William Thomas, 73, when he was leaning out of a first-floor window of…
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"Correct Place" Lidcombe Wants Court
"I say very definitely, just as a former Minister for Justice said, that Lidcombe is geographically the correct place for a court." So said Alderman Wyatt last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cannon Ball Costs £69 Damages Described As Trap Comment By Magistrate Woman Hurt
DAMAGES, totalling more than £69, were awarded the two plaintiffs in what has become known as "the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rowing. Police Regatta. Mosman Wins Senior Fours
Mosman, by winning the senior fours at the Police Rowing Club's regatta, on the Lane Cove River on Saturday, increased its lead in the championship pennant competition, and placed the club in an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Law Notices. Monday, February 22. Federal Bankruptcy Court
Before his Honor Mr. Justice Lukin, Federal Judge in Bankruptcy, 7th floor, Commonwealth Bank Building, 112 Pitt-street.—At 10.30 a.m.—Hearing of creditors' petitions: Re Allan Christle, ex…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rich Man Held to Know of Murder Millionaire and Union Leader New York
SAMUEL ROSOFF, multimillionaire subway-builder, has been arrested as a material witness in the case of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fruitless Search for Lost 'Plane Hopes Rapidly Fading Sea Crash Is View of Experts Propeller Blade May Have Killed Pilots, One Theory 100 Police Out
HOPES of finding alive the seven occupants of the missing Brisbane-Sydney airliner, which disappeared last Friday, have now faded. Hundreds of square miles of thickly timbered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Liverpool Police Court. Liverpool
George Packham pleaded guilty at the Liverpool Court on Monday to having occupied a building in Smithfield-street, which had been declared by the Fairfield Council…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Supreme Court. Full Court
(Before the Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Jordan, Mr. Justice Halse Rogers, and Mr. Justice Bavin.) NEW GUINEA ACT…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Assault Charge Fails Incident at Coogee Beach
At the Quarter Sessions yesterday James Morgan, 27, laborer, was acquitted on a charge of assaulting Charles Harold Jessop and robbing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Arrest of Two Men Indecent Photographs Charged
Unusual charges were lodged last night at Central Police Station against a middle-aged man and a young man concerning allegedly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court Sidelights
WOMAN witness in Quarter Sessions: My friend and I intended to keep in the shelter of the verandah, but I changed our minds…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Woman on Murder Charge. Bulli
At a special court at the Bulli Hospital today, the Chamber Magistrate, Mr. R. Stapleton, remanded Euphemia Atkinson, 31, married woman, of Woonona, until March 8 on a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Murder Charge. Young Maori Arrested. AUCKLAND
Toko Whakala. 70. a well-known Maori settler, was fatally shot in his wha[?] (hut) at Patumahoe. 40 miles from Auckland, and his daughter, Mrs. Etc Toko. 30. was severely…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Horrible Murder of Girl New York
ONE of the most shocking crimes in the history of Pennsylvania was revealed by the finding of the body of Helen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Faces Additional Charges Solicitor Is Brought From Gaol CESSNOCK
Brought back from Long Eay Gaol, where he is serving a sentence of 12 years, Arthur Vincent Cunningham (30), former solicitor of Cessnock,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police Courts. Drugs in Possession
William Robert Sproule, 27, motor driver, was charged in the Central Police Court yesterday with having a drug, morphine sulphate, in his possession on February 19…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tragedy in Maori Whare Son on Charge of Murder Auckland
"I'VE shot the old man and killed my sister." This confession is alleged to have, been made by a Maori, John…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Took 4- in the £ Police Story of Raid
A VISIT by the police to a refreshment room and licensed billiard saloon on the first floor of an Elizabeth Street building on February 12…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mine Shaft Murder Victim. Identity Believed to be Known. MELBOURNE
Detectives believe that the victim of the Wedderburn mine shaft murder was David Proudfoot, a Scotsman, who came to Australia after a period of service in the British…
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