Court Dismisses Dawson Charge
A Customs charge against David Stewart Dawson, 24, company director, was dismissed at the Special Federal Court yesterday…
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200 Indians Hurt in Police Charge
LAHORE, Saturday.--Nearly 200 Moslem League demonstrators were injured in a police baton charge in front of the Charing Cross police station in Lahore yesterday…
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BOMBAY, Saturday.-- Police and military reinforcements have been moved into Lahore, capital of Punjab, where demonstrations followed the arrest of eight Moslem League…
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LAHORE, Saturday.--Nearly 200 Moslem League demonstrators were injured in a police baton charge in front of the Charing Cross police station in Lahore yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Allege Man Shot at Son
A father who was charged at Paddington Court yesterday with having shot at his son with intent to do grievous bodily harm said "he had no intention of hurting his boy."…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Man Springs At Police With Dagger, Pistol
MELBOURNE, Saturday.- Brandishing a dagger and a revolver, a man sprang from behind a bush towards four policemen at Parkville (Melbourne) early today and ordered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police In 60 M.P.H Chase After Car
A constable on a motor-cycle chased a car at 60 miles-an-hour along Parramatta Road last night before he forced the driver to stop…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Special Court Grants U.K. Union 44-Hour Week
LONDON, Jan. 24 (A.A.P.).—A Special Court inquiring into the claims of the road haulage workers, whose strike this month…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →200 Injured in Indian Clash Moslems' Demonstration In Lahore Angry Women Defy Police
LAHORE, Saturday. --Nearly 200 Moslem League demonstrators were injured in a police baton charge in Lahore yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →500 Missing Women a Year Police Official Tells Why They Leave Home And What Happens
EVERY now and again a strange case of a girl vanishing completely from home and friends stirs popular excitement. But less unusual cases occur without a ripple of interest regarding them. Over Australia, more than 500 girls disappear every year, and police never cease searching…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australia's Ace Cop Is the Police Taboratory The Sherlock Holmes of Australian crime, the all-seeing eye from which the murderer, the thief, the gunman or the forger has less and less chance of escaping every year, is the police laboratory. In the last few years science has assisted police to clear up murders that would have remained forever unsolved, had they been committed even 10 years earlier. Today, the murderer has little chance of planning and successfully carrying-out the perfect crime. If he succeeds, it is probable that success came only because luck was on his side, and stacked against the law
ON Boxing Day, 1933, a body was found floating in the Murrumbidgee River. It was badly decomposed, and experts estimated it had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder in the White Pit
John Barrington's gripping detective story, published in a limited Australian edition at 66 by the Shakespeare Head Press, takes the…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Police Ban Speedsters
Police at the Sports Arena last night prevented the management from staging its star item—a speedway contest between five riders…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →"Double" confesses to murder Twice-condemned man may escape
LONDON, Sat.--Walter Graham Rowland, 38, twice sentenced to death for murder, may be freed soon because another man has confessed to the murder for which Rowland was…
Continued on Trove, page 46 →Swiss Romance Ends In Court
STORY of a marriage that began in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1926 and went on the rocks years later in Sydney when the wife to Mr. Acting Justice Kirby in the Divorce Court last Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Police raid at dogs 14 Consorting Bookings
MEMBERS of the CIB Consorting Squad made a surprise raid on Wollongong dog races…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dagger, pistol, menace to police MELBOURNE
Brandishing a dagger and a revolver, a man spring from behind a bush towards four policemen, at Parkville…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stop Press Police Search Fob "Man in White"
Squads of police and patrol cars ere searching for a mysterious "man in white" who attempted to climb the fence of Newtown…
Continued on Trove, page 48 →Court suit finds buyer--not McKell
This week Mr. James Lawler, a Castlereagh Street secondhand dealer, sold a Court suit for £20--but not to Mr. McKell. He wanted 20 guineas for the suit, but accepted £1 less…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman Tells Court of Life with Ex-minister
LONDON, Saturday,—A frail, white-haired woman of 66 told West London Police Court last Thursday that Thomas John Ley (67), a former N.S.W. Minister of Justice, had accused her of being intimate with her son-in-law and a man who was later murdered…
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