Sunday Pay Issue In Court Shortly
MELBOURNE, Saturday. --Double time for Sunday work, the outstanding issue in various industrial disputes, will come…
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Robbery Confession Alleged Mulley's Mother-In-Law Tells Court Of Hold-Up
Mrs. Violet May Dando said in Central Police Court yesterday that two men "had confessed to her" that they had committed an armed robbery at the home of jockey Athol (George) Mulley…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Liner Katoomba Seized in Us. Sequel To Protest By Passengers £93,750 Court Action Against Greek Firm
NEW YORK, Saturday.--The former Australian liner Katoomba was seized by the United States Marshal's Office yesterday at its berth in New Jersey. This followed the filing by 57 passengers of a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dog-Detective Of The Mounties Nearly Always Gets His Man The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is proud of its ace dog-detective, Chief, because through six tough years of work he has never failed to live up to the highest traditions of his service: he always gets his man. Chief, a German shepherd, specialises in tracking down and sniffing out the hidden stills of back-country moonshiners of which the Canadian Northwest still has its full share. Chief will tackle any job, however, and he has never once disgraced the badge he carries on his collar
HE can act tough when he has a criminal cornered, but the Mounties say such a display is just skilful acting. They swear Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Gaoled For Assault On Bay
"YOU are not fit to be at large," Mr. Ryan. S.M., told Henry Munton (43). at Manly Court last Monday. Munton had…
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LONDON, Saturday. — Former N.S.W. Minister of Justice (Thomas John Ley) sat composedly in the dock at West London Police Court last Thursday, while the prosecution alleged that he was the instigator…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Father Faces Murder Trial
AT the Coroner's Court last week, Frederick William Cooper (65), was committed for trial on a charge of murdering…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Babies in gaol were good for morale
Among the 451 inmates of West Virginia's Alderson Women's Reformatory are seven who have never committed a crime in their…
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AN ounce of gold worth £10, in a tobacco tin, sent Umberto Bono, 41-year-old miner, to gaol for four months today. Bono admitted in the police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Matron's Methods Criticised By Counsel
"I'VE murdered my two children!" These words, allegedly uttered by Mrs. jean Ethel Wright (31 ) Shortland Ave., Strathfield, to a police matron at Western Suburbs Hospital on December 17 provoked a storm of condemnation in the Burwood Coroner's Court last Wednesday, when…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Clue to Sadist's Murder of Girl Los Angeles
A REJECTED suitor who had made threats on her life, is sought as a suspect in the sadistic torture and murder of pretty Elizabeth Short, 22, a movie-struck girl…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crowd Impedes Police; Men, Women in Brawl
A brawl occurred in College Street last night when police questioned two men in charge of a motor car. A large crowd gathered around the car and impeded…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Things Heard (And Unheard) in Court
A HUSBAND in the Divorce Court was telling how he found out his wife was not fond of him. "She told me she was unhappy as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A colored woman got court's sympathy
A HANDSOME colored woman whom a landlady sought to eject from her residential this week said she thought it was her color…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dramatic Court Story Of Mulley Hold-Up
A DRAMATIC story of incidents associated with a visit, on the night of January 7, to the home of jockey Athol George Mulley, by two masked men, who, it is alleged, held up the…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Police Seeking Fiendish Murderer 'The Black Dahlia's' Love Life Probed
LOS ANGELES, Saturday. — The love life of pretty Elizabeth Short (22) is being scrutinised by police seeking a clue to her fiendish murderer. Officers learned she had been…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →real life court dramas He specialised in women's clothing
Colin Lewis McLeod, who had been living under some bushes on a vacant block of land at Elizabeth Bay for the past…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Women Pack Court For Murder Case. BRISBANE
When Reginald Wing-field Spence Brown, 49, accountant was charged in the police court today…
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CHICAGO, Monday.--Another man's confession yesterday cleared William Kiss (30), who twice admitted that he had…
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CHICAGO, Monday.--Another man's confession yesterday cleared William Kiss (30), who twice admitted that he had…
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