Silence in the Court
SOLDIER (giving evidence in Central Court): I identified the stolen 2- pieces as mine because of…
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6,510 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 250
Quarter Sessions. (Before Judge Marken.) (Mr. W. McMinn, Crown Prosecutor.) Sentenced to 18 MONTHS
George Francis Hamilton, 20, rubber worker, pleaded not guilty to a charge of housebreaking, in Sydney, and stealing quantities of whisky, gin, and rum,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Benghazi Falls to Nile Army Final Assault In Blinding Sandstorm After Air Pounding LONDON
Benghazi, Italy's second largest naval base in Africa, has fallen to the Imperial Army of the Nile. A modern town of 33,700 people,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Supreme Court Judge. Mr. Herron, K.C., Appointed
The Attorney-General, Sir Henry Manning, announced yesterday that Mr. L. J. Herron, K.C., had been appointed to the Supreme Court from…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Rise in Basic Wage Refused Arbitration Court Judges Explain Decision MELBOURNE
The Full Arbitration Court today unanimously decided against an immediate increase in the basic wage. Application for the increase, made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Charged with Violence
CAPETOWN, Saturday (A.A.P.). -- At Johannesburg 15 policemen were remanded yesterday on charges of public violence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Doctors Charged New York
GROUP medical practice had been in existence for many years, said Dr. Hugh Cabot, of Boston, leader of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Smart Looking, to Face Theft Charges
Leonard Washington Brennan, a smart-looking man, and described as a salesman, pleaded not guilty at the Bathurst Quarter Sessions the other day…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Body in Mine Shaft: Queer Bush Murder
WHAT was George Lloyd Davidson doing beside the Charles Henry Davis haystack after dark one night in February, 1939? Twenty-year-old Davidson disappeared immediately afterward in mysterious…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Police Dog To Drive Car
Zoe, famous police dog, will drive her own car on Sydney Sports Ground next Saturday at the N.S.W. Police Annual Carnival…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →500 Police Freed for Carnival
Five hundred police will be released from duty on Saturday to attend the New South Wales Police Carnival at Sydney Sports Ground…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wages and the Court
AN amazing situation has developed in regard to the Commonwealth Arbitration Court presided over by Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Spy Film Court Case
LYA LYS, Berlin-born film actress, who played the part of Erica Wolf in the U.S. film, "Confessions of a Nazi Spy," which has resulted in a damages claim. MRS. KATE BUSCH, also known as Miss Kate Moog,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Said Police Bashed Him at Station
NOTHING but horror and terror were crammed into some hours he spent in Darlinghurst Police Station one night in October last year, according to some startling allegations made by Reginald Stopp before Judge…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →More Daylight Raids Over Invasion Ports R.A.F. in New Assault London
Recent R.A.F. daylight sweeps of what are known as the invasion ports of France and Belgium…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court to Hear Fish Story 50 Years Old
AUCKLAND, Saturday. -- Compton Smith, surveyor, has been called before a native land court to testify that some mullet jumped into his boat in 1887…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wed, Not for "Keeps" Pair In Strange Life Drama at Court
ONE bright day in February last year, fairhaired, sharp-featured railway employee, John Ernest Price accompanied Ethel May Johnston, daughter of a Wellington grazier, to…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Police Defeat of Dictator Mackay! Forced to Climb Down on Edict for Leave for the Force
THE spectacle of Police Commissioner MacKay eating humble pie, and not liking it, greeted the public last week. The Dictator was forced to climb down and go back on his edict issued on leave for the Force. Mr. MacKay grudgingly restored to metropolitan policemen one of the rest…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Police Call To Hospital
Five police had to be called to the casualty ward at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday to subdue two women and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Search for 13-Year-old Boy
Newtown police are searching for Bernard James Hall, 13. who has been missing from his home in Little Fotheringham Street, Marrickville, since…
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