Silence in the Court
DEFENDANT (to complainant in Small Debts Court): The last time I was arrested I told the policeman…
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6,510 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 250
Police Court
The following matters were dealt with by Mr C. Pickup, at Penrith Police Court on Monday: Unlicensed Driver…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gaol for Singing Anti-german Songs London
The Belgian headmistress of a private school at Antwerp has been sentenced to 5½ years' imprisonment for teaching her pupils anti-German…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Lost Child Search Puzzle For Police
Police are at a loss where to search next for Desmond Clarke, 2 years 5 months, who has been lost in wild country between Coonabarabran and…
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SOLDIER witness (in Central Court): Somebody suggested a toast to Hitler. Solicitor: What…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Signal Box Murder Thief Kills Porter Hobart
Taking over the night shift at Moonah railway station for the first time last night, Eric Ross…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.--The body of William Brown, an employee of the Government Printing Office, was found in Duck's Creek. Bribie Island, on New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Sweep on Bardia Artillery Naval, Aerial Bombardment in Fierce Final Assault LONDON
The British are reported to have begun the final assault oh Bardia, Libyan coastal garrison near the Egyptian border, after 15 days of preparation. An intense preparatory barrage by field artillery, naval guns…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Husband's Right To Slap Wife Upheld By Court LONDON
When charged by his wife with having assaulted her, Charles Edward Jay successfully pleaded the old common law right of a husband to "correct" his wife. Jay denied having punched his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court Told of Engineers' Dispute Ban on Overtime to Be Considered Men Resent New Taxation
The partial stoppage of work in the engineering trade over the holiday pay dispute which affects munitions production, has been reported to the Deputy Industrial Registrar and Conciliation Commissioner…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Summary. Oversea News. Assault on Bardia
Australian forces, supported by tanks, penetrated a section of the defences of Bardia, the Italian stronghold in the Western Desert, just before dawn…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Get Some Democracy
N.S.W. police must be wonder[?] what is the real meaning of democracy, and questioning the [?] of the war slogan. Early in…
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SOLICITOR (at Central Police Court): Does your husband drink? Witness: That is the only…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →51 "Drunks" in Court
Fifty-one "drunks," collected from city streets and the parks during yesterday and last night, faced the magistrate (Mr. Sweeney) at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Jehovah's" in the Lowest! Murder In U.S.A.
FEELING against "Jehovah's Witnesses" in America is running high. Almost daily there are riots provoked by "Witnesses" preaching sedition, the downfall of England…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Hunt for Aboriginal Leper Perth
Police are searching for a full- blooded native leper who escaped from Wooroloo lazaret. So far they have been unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farndale Loss Findings of Court of Inquiry
An inquiry has been held by the Seccondee Divisional Court into the circumstances of the loss by fire of the British steamer Farndale at Takoradi in March last. The Court was presided over by Mr. Justice Doorly, assisted by Mr. D. D…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A.I.F. Smashes Way Into Bardia Captures 8000 In Brilliant Assault Dramatic Report From Spender "Casualties Few" Says Minister
The A.I.F. in Libya covered itself with glory to-day when it set the Australian flag flying within the Italian stronghold of Bardia. So successful and rapid was the final assault that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australians Launch Attack on Bardia. Tanks Support Advance. Section of Defences Penetrated in Dawn Assault. Germany Sending Help to Italy. From Our Own Correspondent and A.A.P. LONDON, January 3
Australian forces, supported by tanks, penetrated a section of the defences of Bardia just before dawn this morning, states a communique from British G.H.Q. in Cairo. There is no indication in London whether this is the start of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Queensland Gaol-break Rockhampton
Noel Patrick Maher, 21, escaped from Rockhampton gaol to-day. He forced several palings from a fence and escaped into a neighboring yard…
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