Assault Charge Fails
Hamilton Gibb 26. was acquitted in the Quarter Sessions yesterday of a charge of basing assaulted Clifford John Richaids, an ex-professional taxer and occasioned him…
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Man Arrested and Charged
J. T. Patten, of the Aborigines' Progressive Association, who gave evidence before the recent Parliamentary Select Committee into the conditions of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deserters Hear Mates Sentenced WOLLONGONG
Three British deserters from the steamer Dalfram, who have been in hiding since last Wednesday, walked into Court…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Court Sidelights
SERGEANT MILLS (at Newtown Court, reading allegations against man charged with having driven a car with glaring headlights): At 50 yards the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police "Cracked the Jackpot"
Destruction of a poker machine at the New Charlton Club, Dalwood Arcade, Pitt Street, City, was ordered yesterday by Mr. Sutherland, S.M…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Warbling in Court
A warbling call--"a sort of Red Indian noise," he called it-- was given in the Central Court by Constable Blackwood today…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Murder Charge. Death of Man at Tumut
Detective-sergeant Allmond, of the Criminal Investigation Branch at Sydney, and Detective-sergeant Humphries of Cootamundra, who have been investigating the death of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Dalfram Firemen Sentenced. Absent Without Leave. Released Pending Appeal Wollongong
Two Lascar firemen from the steamer Dalfram, Ameer Ahmid and Kief Khan, were to-day sentenced to seven days' imprisonment, and were ordered to forfeit two days'…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police Take Woman From Gap
A middle-aged woman who had written a farewell note was taken in charge by the police at The Gap, Watson's Bay,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Italian Baron in Court
Said to be an Italian baron with the title of Marchese, Nicola Truda, 30, merchant, appeared on three charges at Central Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder Charge. Tenterfield Tragedy. Mechanic Remanded. Tenterfield
John Trevor Kelly, 24, motor mechanic, was charged to-night with having murdered Marjorie Constance Sommerlad, 33, at Hillcrest, near…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Took His Girl On Police Job
Constable John Graham had a job to do at a dance. So he took his fiancee along. The job was to get evidence of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wireless Agents Fined for Assault Nothing More Than Hired Ruffians, Declares S.m
Three men who had gone to a house to repossess a wireless set were fined yesterday at Parramatta Court on charges of having assaulted a husband and wife. Addressing them, Mr. Hardwick,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Question Patient Foundling Hospital Fire Mystery
MELBOURNE, Monday.--Investigating the outbreak of fire at Broadmeadows Foundling Hospital last Saturday night, detectives to-day questioned a young…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cantor's Critics Unions and Federal Court
VIGOROUS opposition is voiced by the trade unions against the reported intention of the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Will Test Potato Ban in Court
LAUNCESTON, Monday.--The Premier of Tasmania, Mr. Ogilvie, K.C., in a letter to the Premier of Victoria, Mr. Dunstan, has indicated that he will test the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dog Obeys Radio. Police Tests. Value in Detection
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. W. J. MacKay, and the Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police Mr. T. J. Lynch, watched the famous white Alsatian…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Link in £2000 Bank Robbery Oxygen Cylinders Found By Police
Oxygen and acetylene, used by the cracksmen who robbed the Bank of N.S.W., St. Peters, of £2000 on January 29. were delivered by a carrier to a shop next to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Quarter Sessions. (Before Judge Barton.) Senior Crown Prosecutor, Mr. L. J. McKcan, K.C. Acquitted of Assault
Hamilton Gibb, 20, ice cream cone-maker, was acquitted of a charge of having on December 31, at Vaucluse, assaulted Clifford John Richards, occasioning actual bodily harm…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Four Boys’ Lives Nick of Time Rescue; Police Callous HILLSTON, N.S.W.
In saving four boys’ lives a Hillston, N.S.W., farmer got a new angle on the life of the underdog…
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