Court Jesters of the Past
Mr. Justice Page was a hanging judge. When he was getting very old, counsel for an accused asked after his…
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To Fix Rents Labor Wants Court
"DEMAND for the re-introduction of a Fair Rents Court is a feature of the Labor Party's policy," Mr. C…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclist's Leg Torn Off. Police Search for Motorist
Police are searching for the driver of a motor vehicle which struck a motor cycle and sidecar on the Port Kembla Road, near Port Kembla, last night, and, it is alleged, did not…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Police Carnival. Display at Sports Ground To-night
The annual police night carnival, which was postponed from last Saturday because of wet weather, is to be held at the Sports Ground to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Court-martial in Iraq. Former Premier Included
BAGDAD, March 10 (A.A.P.). King Ghazi of Iraq has decieed that Hikmat Suliaman, the former Premier, three army officers, and five civilians should be tried by…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Grave Found Empty. Man Charged. N.Z. Bones Mystery. Dramatic Turn. Auckland (N.z.)
Police, investigating the mystery of the human bones found in the ruins of a shack destroyed by fire at Piha, to-day opened a grave in the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A Partnership For Murder: Jones, Jones, and Elbery A Tale Of Early Sydney
MURDERERS generally fall into two classes. Also they…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Nancy Bird at Court: Queen's Smile London
The "Daily Sketch" devotes its front page picture to the Australian airwoman. Miss Nancy Bird, who is shown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shimmering Beauty Of Court Frocks LONDON, March 9
Swathed in fur coats arid wraps against the chill of evening, debutantes for the first Court, which is unusually early…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Ordered to Pay £500 DAMAGES Divorce Court Jury's Verdict
Louis Catts, a Wealthy manufacturer, of Gymen Bay, was ordered to pay £500 damages to Stanley Edward Miller, by a jury in the Divorce Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bones Not McKAY'S Police Say Talbot Remanded, On £400 Bail AUCKLAND
"The police now allege that the remains found in the debris of the fire at the Piha shack are those of Patrick Henry Shine." This statement was made in the police court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Official Ban Evaded. Vessel Taken to Sea. Court Claims. Brisbane
After a warning had been given by the Deputy Director of Navigation that the vessel Gippsland (159 tons) was not to be taken out of Sydney Harbour until it complied with…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Supreme Court. in Divorce. (Before the Judge in Divorce, Mr. Justice Boyce, and a jury.) IRELAND v IRELAND
A report of this suit, which is part heard, appears in another column. (Before Mr. Justice Roper.) GATES v GATES…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bones Case: Court Reference K.C. Questions Co-respondent About McKAY Admission Of Love For Other Man's Wife
Reference to Gordon Robert McKay, chief figure in the New Zealand bones mystery, was made by Mr. Dovey, K.C., during yesterday's hearing of the Ireland…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →DISASTER That HALVED a Town's Population Horrors of the Messina Earthquake Thirty years ago, two days after the Christmas celebrations, the gay and fashionable town of Messina was shattered by an earthquake. The horrors that followed provided one of the most startling examples in European history of the collapse of morale by police, army and civilians
HALF dead with shock and fatigue, their clothing torn and their bodies splashed with blood, two men stumbled up the steps of the little telegraph office of Gerace Marina, in Southern Italy…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Nine Months' Gaol For Former Postmaster
WEST WYALONG, Saturday. Sentence of nine months' imprisonment was passed on William Henry Mahony, former…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →An Attractive Women's Gaol London
Women prisoners at Holloway Gaol will be removed to the country to an estate consisting of 150 acres, near London, where they will live in 40…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Police Ire Is Raised by Gollan
"Unless grievances are remedied the day must come when the police will be forced into a political camp to obtain justice," declared the secretary of the Police Association, Mr. Cosgrove, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Piha Mystery Police Say Bones Came From Grave Auckland
Portions of a human body found in debris of the burnt shack at Piha are definitely stated by the police to be parts of a body removed from a Waikumete cemetery grave which, when opened yesterday morning, disclosed an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Denham Court Handicap Chronic Lameness Does Not Mar Creditor's Pace Munro's Vigor Was Big Factor In Sprint Win
Randwick trainer Stan Lamond believes that not even the infallible Mr. Moto could solve the mystery of Creditor, a three-year-old which put more thousands into the pockets of big Sydney punters by winning the Denham Court…
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