Police Arrest Two Escapees
Two youths who escaped from the Albion Street shelter on Thursday have been arrested by police at Taree. Police said the youths, aged 16 and…
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Mystery of the Week the Immaterial Murder Case, by Julian Symons. London: Gollan[?]z. Murder as an art
A RECORD collection of ratbags murder their drunken way through the pages of this confused and…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Police Guard Judge From Angry Crowd
MELBOURNE, Saturday.--When a crowd of between 200 and 300 menaced the judge at Mentone races today, police had to escort him from his stand…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New High Court Judge Likely
FEDERAL Cabinet, at its last meeting, decided to appoint another judge to the High Court. When -- and how -- this will be done is not certain. JUDICIARY Act provides for a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fight Against Shark Father Tells Court
A man's graphic story of a tight with a shark that attacked his daughter in Oatley Bay, near Como, on January 5, was told in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Main in Brown the Thirteenth Instalment of Our Murder Mystery
CON showed interest for a moment in the name. "Abigail Shaw! I heard of her. Devoted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thirty Police Seeking Girl Hunt In Lindfield Scrub Disappearance After School
THIRTY policemen, and the police dog. Zoe, are searching scrub around Lindfield for Kay Lindsay (8), who was last seen after school…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Revel Began in U.s. and Ended in British Court
LONDON.--An American clerk who claimed he started celebrating the New Year in New York with friends and woke up on a ship bound…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Revel Began in U.s. and Ended in British Court
LONDON.--An American clerk who claimed he started celebrating the New Year in New York with friends and woke up on a ship bound…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Revel Began in U.s. and Ended in British Court
LONDON.--An American clerk who claimed he started celebrating the New Year in New York with friends and woke up on a ship bound…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Professor Among The Diplomats K. B. BAILEY -- Australia's Nominee for World Court Master of Approach and Procedure
HIGH renown envelops Kenneth Hamilton Bailey, M.A., B.C.L. (Oxon.), LL.M. (Melb.), Professor of Public Law at Melbourne University, since 1943 special advisor to the Commonwealth Government on constitutional and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Girl's Story Of Assault
TOWNSVILLE, Saturday.—An extraordinary story of a man's attack on a girl in her bedroom has been told police by…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Theft of Petrol Coupons. Money
Thieves who broke into the office of the Nepean Dairying Co., Penrith, yesterday, took a small sum of money and 171 petrol coupons…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Gunman Jitterbugs in Cell After Being Sentenced
TWENTY-YEARS-OLD gunman Clarence Ronald Leslie St. Clair, laborer, who had openly boasted…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Newspaper artist murder mystery
The body of George Simpson, newspaper artist, is found murdered in the offices of the Daily Express. Two more killings follow quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Big Army Pay Theft Unsolved Lae
A RECENT £1900 Australian Army payroll robbery is still a mystery. The money vanished at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Parson Slayer Reads Bible in Gaol Cell
NEW YORK, Saturday.—Reverend Frank E. Siple (53), is finding solace in the Bible as he awaits sentence for the murder of his pretty 17-years-old daughter. Police allege the preacher poisoned…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Police Seeking Masked Bandits
Early this morning police were still seeking the two masked bandits who awakened a Willoughby bookmaker at his home in the small hours…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →S.p. in the Pews at Bathurst Gaol Chapel!
MORE than 100 crystal radio sets tuned into 2BS Bathurst; scores of prisoners crowded into the gaol chapel on Saturday afternoons betting on Sydney and Melbourne races; dozens of card parties on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Police shove back howling crowd
UNIFORMED policemen had to use their weight to prevent a howling crowd from breaking through a gate into the members' enclosure at Mentone yesterday…
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