Assault, damage, riot -- sailors' "fun fight"
Charged with having behaved riotously, assaulted the police, and damaged Government property, two seamen told Central Police Court yesterday:…
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Hair-dos, Cosmetics At Long Bay Gaol
I spent yesterday in Long Bay gaol! I wanted to see how the women live there, and to investigate those rumors of padded cells, shaven heads, and bread and water diet which the uninformed associate with prison…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Women Rush Police Jobs; Ages 14 To 50, Eager To Face Tests
AN ambitious girl of 14, just leaving school, and several women of more than 50, are among the applicants…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →An Old Man and His Wealth Court Story Of £10,000 Worth
THE aged are inclined to look back on the good old days with approval, and last week grey-haired, moustached, 81-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Man Slain in Never Never: Body Burned Court Story Told of Gruesome Crime "You Think I Killed Him"
STRETCHING from near Cunnamulla to the South Australian border is the vast pastoral holding of Boorara, more than one million acres in area. On a station miles from anywhere is a small camp, until recently occupied by two bore-drillers. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →N.Z. Pilot on Burglary Charge Colon (Panama Zone)
A New Zealand pilot, Bernard Edmund Cox, was arrested at Cristobal and charged with breaking into the Hamburg-America Line office…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →National Security Offence. German Sentenced to Hard Labour
At the Cential Police Court on Saturday, Guewter Falkenstein, 24, manufacturer, of German nationality, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour, on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Say Will a Forgery
Conspiracy over a forged will relating to a £34,500 estate was alleged against four men charged at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pyjama Girl Claim Rejected By Police
A woman is claiming that the body of the "Pyjama Girl," who was murdered near Albury in September, 1934, is that of her daughter. The police say the woman is mistaken…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →3 Fined for Paper Theft
Three men were fined £2 each at North Sydney Court yesterday for having stolen newspapers. They are Herbert George Nicholls,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Law Report. in Bankruptcy. (Before Mr. Justice Lukin.) Bankrupt Drapers Sentenced
Robert Bert Hooker and Reginald Ernest Griffin, bankrupt drapers, formerly trading as Quality Stores, Auburn, were committed to four months' imprisonment on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Silence in the Court
POLICE Prosecutor, Constable Kirk (to complainant at Central): Now what about this assault?…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →TOOTH & Claw Fight Alleged by Police Newcastle
A constable said today that he had to bite the hand of a soldier to avoid being choked in a street fight. He said he was also struck on the head with a brick and kicked…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Many Deaths by Drowning. Police Search for Bodies
Three deaths by drowning were reported yesterday, four other people had narrow escapes, and three air trainees, who are missing, are believed to have…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →N.Z. Police Seek Spy Clues. Auckland
Most of the passengers and crew of the Holmwood, and two women from the Rangitane, which were both sunk by an enemy raider, have arrived in Auckland…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Pyjama Girl Mystery. Body Claimed by Woman. Court Case Likely
A woman living in a country town in New South Wales claims that the Albury "Pyjama Girl," who was found murdered six years ago, was her…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →General Soddu Resigns. Italian Commander In Albania. A.I.F. Nearing Tobruk. Preparations for Assault. LONDON, January 13. (A.A.P.)
Italy's troubles show no sign of coming to an end. General Soddu, who assumed command of the Italian forces in Albania early in November after the first Greek victories, has resigned. The official reason given in Rome for the resignation is the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Australian Guns Shelling Tobruk Hour Of Infantry Assault Near Rome Says 'Hard Nut to Crack' Praises British Grit, Sees Perils Ahead LONDON
Australian artillery has joined in the bombardment of Tobruk, Italian coastal base in Libya which is now in its sixth day of siege. The gunfire is kept up fairly heavily all day, but slackens at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Goal for Stealing
Charged with having stolen lead at Granville, Harold Leslie Horton (21) and Colin George Johnston (18) were each sentenced at the Parramatta Police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To Gaol for Bag-snatching
A cyclist bagsnatcher was sent to gaol for six months on two charges at the Parramatta Police Court on Monday. He was Leslie Clarence Cutting (20),…
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