Murder And Romance In Phillpotts' Thriller
A FINE careless rapture does not distinguish the work of Eden phillpotts, nor does he attempt to illumine his mysteries with a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Courts & crime, 1941
6,510 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 250
Big smash in police chase
MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Six persons had remarkable escapes from injury when an allegedly stolen truck was involved in an accident with a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Assault On Free French Envoy In Public Gardens Injuries to Arm and Eye
Commandant Edmond Mansard, former Governor of Tahiti and Its dependencies in French…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Association's Secretary in Reply to "Truth
THE secretary of the N.S.W. Police Association, Mr. C. J. Cosgrove, has written the following…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →What a murder Rules Verne found in 10 years Under the Earth
THE book which impressed and fascinated me more than any other was Jules Verne's "Journey To The Centre Of The Earth," says Norbert Casteret in a foreword to the book he has written. Casteret's readers will…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Believe Missing Child Taken By Hawk BUGALDIE
SERIOUS consideration is now being given to the theory that 2½-year-old Desmond Clark, who disappeared from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Year Murder
RAIL PORTER. Eric Ross Robinson, 26, who was murdered at Moonah Railway Station, Tasmania, at midnight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gaol Escapee. Recaptured after Few Hours' Liberty. BRISBANE
After only 24 hours' liberty. Noel Patrick Maher, 21, who escaped from Rockhampton Gaol at 4.30 p.m. yesterday, was captured at Emu Park to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Heavy Rain Holds Up Witnesses. Murder Trial May Adjourn. BRISBANE
Inches of rain which have flooded the parched far west, may prevent three witnesses reaching Cunnamulla on Tuesday for the opening of the hearing of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Nurse Charged With £542 Theft
Mrs. Alice Thompson, of Guthrie Street, Cremorne, was committed for trial at Central Police Court yesterday on a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Magistrate Halves Soldier's Fine
Raymond Athol Judd, 38, of the A.I.F., was yesterday fined 10 in the Licensing Court for having carried away liquor from the Forest Lodge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Charged with Church Breaking
Roy Mortimer Griffiths. 26[?] painter, appeared before Mr. Atkinson. S.M., at the Central Court to-day, on charges of breaking and entering…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Soldiers Make Good Pal's Theft Bathurst
Soldiers of Bathurst camp, by guaranteeing to make good a deficiency involved in an embezzlement charge against one of their comrades, to-day persuaded a magistrate to release the offender on bond…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Silence in the Court
DEFENDANT (to his landlady, at Central Police Court): When I left your house didn't I leave…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dug Bonds in Yard Police Say
Discovery of £4500 worth of bonds and debentures, which had been buried in a fowlyard of a house near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Loss of Cardross. Court's Decision Next Week
The inquiry into the collision off Sydney Heads on December 15 between the steamers Fiona and Cardross was concluded yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Liquor Law Anomaly. Hotelkeepers in Doubt. Cabinet and Police
Although the Cabinet has directed the police to enforce the law covering the trading hours of hotels more strictly, no effect appears to have…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →N.S.W. Battalions Chosen for Assault. From Our War Correspondent with the A.I.F. SOLLUM, Jan. 6
To take Bardia, Australian infantry brigades, supported by British tanks, broke through a fortified line comparable in strength with the Hindenburg…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Will Not Fight." Jehovah's Witness in Court. Would Rather Die. NEWCASTLE
Gordon Stewart Edwards, a Jehovah's Witness, said in the Newcastle Police Court to-day tnat he would not fight if Australia was attacked, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lost Jewels. Ex-policeman's Distress. Man Charged With Theft
While Edwin Goulder, 81, a retired police superintendent, was giving evidence in the Kogarah Police Court yesterday about the loss of jewellery…
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