A Mexican Socialite's Practical Joke Ended In A Murder Charge New Mexico's police force is handling its craxiest case. With concrete proof that the man now held in the city's gaol is a murderer, the Department of Justice is trying its hardest to fight a conviction against him. The prisoner is Victor Manuel Galvez, son of a local socialite and victim of a practical joke that should have caused roars of laughter, but has brought nothing but sorrow and tragedy
The World's News · Saturday 1 February 1947 · page 4
JAVIER SANMARTIN TORRES, a Mexican lawyer, not so long ago met a friend of his, Victor Manuel Galvez, on the streets of…
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Truth · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 36
FOR four years there had not been a brawl at Marie Winton's Old Time Dance and Supper Club, so Mrs. Marie McNamara said at Central Police Court last Wednesday. But, last Christmas Eve. things…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Sentence for Shop Theft
Truth · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 42
STATED to be the mother of five children, a woman was sentenced to one month's hard labor by Mr. Oram, S.M., at Central…
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Truth · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 22
AN alleged criminal assault on a 12-years-old child on January 24 was mentioned at Parramatta Court last week,…
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The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 31
NEW YORK, Sat. -- Charles Chaplin promised yesterday that the public would see his Monsieur Verdoux in March…
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Truth · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 31
MELBOURNE, Saturday. — Early tonight detectives who have searched ceaselessly for the gunmen who shot Yeung Shing,…
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Truth · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 23
THREE months' involuntary stay in Melbourne led Chinese bosun Yeung Shing of the British steamer Fort…
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The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 3
A 31-year-old Chinese has been charged with the murder of a Chinese seaman and the wounding of a…
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Truth · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 51
Mystery shrouds the sudden disappearance of Harry Lionel Wilson, a former Commonwealth civil servant, from the Royal Hotel, Gosford, on…
Continued on Trove, page 51 →Police end 'stay-in' pub strike
The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 1
FOUR men staged a "stay-in strike" until ejected by police at the Palace Hotel, Tennyson-road, Mortlake,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Seek Family of Dead Man
The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 7
Police wish to contact relatives of John Hobbs, 56, who died in a bathroom of the Windsor private hotel on Friday afternoon…
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Truth · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 39
How two plain-clothes policemen, who went to the rescue of a woman who was allegedly being assaulted in Cascade St., Paddingtbn, on December 24, were attacked, was told at Paddington Court last Thursday, when Theodore Percival Meurant (24) and Albert Lloyd Meurant…
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Truth · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 34
WHEN a Concord resident returned to her home from a holiday early in the New Year she found that a female intruder had bathed and had…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →...real life court dramas Letters in a hat-box put the lid on
The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 29
A Waverley painter who suspected his wife of infidelity found some letters in her hat-box when he was searching for…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 16
MELBOURNE, Monday.--Chan Kwan (32), stall holder, Gore St., Fitzroy, was charged in the City Court this morning…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 16
MELBOURNE, Monday.--Chan Kwan (32), stall holder, Gore St., Fitzroy, was charged in the City Court this morning…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 16
MELBOURNE, Monday.--Chan Kwan (32), stall holder, Gore St., Fitzroy, was charged in the City Court this morning…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 11
A man who was estimated to have obtained more than 30,000 petrol tickets from the Liquid Fuel Board by false pretences…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 11
A man who was estimated to have obtained more than 30,000 petrol tickets from the Liquid Fuel Board by false pretences…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 11
A man who was estimated to have obtained more than 30,000 petrol tickets from the Liquid Fuel Board by false pretences…
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