Design for Murder
THE cell is still and silent as the grave. They will be taking me out very soon now, and I'm frightened. That is why I am…
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Murder Trial Ends Abruptly
NEW YORK, Saturday. -- Hearing of the case against wealthy attorney John Noxon, who is charged with the…
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NEW YORK, Saturday. -- Hearing of the case against wealthy attorney John Noxon, who is charged with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aided Britons; Sentenced to Death by Nazis
I WAS in Cherche-Midi prison when the Gestapo sentenced me to death, but they changed the sentence to one of three years at hard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nazi Police Chief Shot
LONDON, Saturday.--The German newsagency announces that the Brussels deputy-police chief was shot in the street yesterday. His attacker…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Escapees "Treed" by Police
WAGGA, Friday.—Holbrook and Y[?]rong Creek police and military provosts to-day captured two brothers who escaped from Lockhart lock-up…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →So We Put Survivors in Gaol Shameful Treatment Of British Seamen
NO case in this war involving the liberty of the subject has attracted quite so much attention in Australia as the cases of British seamen who have been gaoled without trial during the last month or two. Now Brian Fitzpatrick, who as general…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Week of Sensations in Pyama Girl Mystery Police Claim Identification: Man Charged With Murder
NEVER, possibly, in the history of Australia has public imagination been gripped as by the sensational mystery death of the beautiful peroxide "A I bury Pyjama Girl" and the equally sensational arrest the other day of Antonio…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Vichy Man Sentenced to Death London
FORMER Vichy Minister for the Interior, Pierre Pucheux, was entenced to death in Algiers for treason…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man on Murder Charge
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Alleged to have been hit over the head with a broom at a house in Claude Street, Northcote, tonight, David Orchard…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Gaol for "Gingerers" Two Who Robbed Seamen Called "Harpies"
HARPIES preying on men ashore from seas studded with mines and bristling with constant peril, and pests and parasites who robbed men Wednesday by the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. Rooney). The prosecutor directed his remarks to "ginger" girls generally, but…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →High Court's Rap On Army Brasshat Grab
IN the Full High Court in Melbourne on Friday, the Federal Government took a sharp rap because of its reluctance to pay just compensation for a Sydney car-parking area taken over by the Army…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →French Patriots Sentenced
LONDON, March 12 (A.A.P.).—The War Tribunal at Rheims has sentenced to death Count Robert de Vogue, proprietor of the champagne…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charged With Killing Brother
Charged with the manslaughter of his brother, Jack Sealdy (27), woolcomber, today at Redfern Court was remanded until…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Assault on Hotel Licensee Alleged
HERBERT JOSEPH ELLIOTT (60), shopkeeper, was charged at Central Court today with having assaulted Herbert James Kortum at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Assault on Hotel Licensee Alleged
HERBERT JOSEPH ELLIOTT (60), shopkeeper, was charged at Central Court today with having assaulted Herbert James Kortum at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Assault on Hotel Licensee Alleged
HERBERT JOSEPH ELLIOTT (60), shopkeeper, was charged at Central Court today with having assaulted Herbert James Kortum at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Assault on Hotel Licensee Alleged
HERBERT JOSEPH ELLIOTT (60), shopkeeper, was charged at Central Court today with having assaulted Herbert James Kortum at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Assault Oh Hotel Licensee Alleged
HERBERT JOSEPH ELLIOTT (60), shopkeeper, was charged at Central Court today with having assaulted Herbert James Kortum at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Assault on Hotel Licensee Alleged
HERBERT JOSEPH ELLIOTT (60), shopkeeper, was charged at Central Court today with having assaulted Herbert James Kortum at the…
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