VlC. Govt Calls Chief of Police
MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- The Premier (Mr. Holloway), who called an emergency meeting of State Cabinet today to discuss intervention on the tram strike, summoned…
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Sons Save Father From Four Thugs Running Fight In Surry Hills Epidemic of Car Stealing
MENACED by four young hoodlums in Adelaide St., Surry Hills, at 4 a.m. today, a man was saved by the arrival of his two sons…
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MENACED by four young hoodlums in Adelaide St., Surry Hills, at 4 a.m. today, a man was saved by the arrival of his two sons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sons Save Father From Four Thugs Running Fight In Surry Hills Epidemic of Car Stealing
MENACED by four young hoodlums in Adelaide St., Surry Hills, at 4 a.m. today, a man was saved by the arrival of his two sons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sons Save Father From Four Thugs Running Fight In Surry Hills Epidemic of Car Stealing
MENAGED by four young hoodlums in Adelaide St., Surry Hills, at 4 a.m. today, a man was saved by the arrival of his two sons…
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MENACED by four young hoodlums in Adelaide St., Surry Hills, at 4 a.m. today, a man was saved by the arrival of his two sons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Underworld Raids Black-market Hoards £15,000 Theft From Car Tyre An £11000 Double-Cross
Australia's underworld has turned viciously on the black-marketer, tracking him down and looting the caches where he has hidden hundreds of thousands in "scared money," which cannot…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gaol Escapee Barnes Gives Himself Up Long Bay Escapee Manacled "I'm Glad It's All Over
CROFTON EDWARD BARNES (26), who made a sensational escape from Long Bay Gaol on New Year's Day, gave himself up to police today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drug Case "Deeply Mysterious" Girl Peddler Before Court
Mr Debenham, S.M., in Parramatta Children's Court yesterday, described as "deeply mysterious and sinister" the case of a girl, said to be 15, who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mystery of the Week Murder mingled with merriment Swan Song, by Edmund Crispin, London: Gollancz
"IF you will pardon my impertinence, sir--" "I always do, Moriarty."…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Handcuffed escapee on way to gaol Escapee Twice Near Police, Hid in Train
CROFTON EDWARD BARNES, 26, who broke out of Long Bay gaol on New Year's Day, had two narrow escapes from the police during his 10 days of hiding. Once he stood next to two policemen in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ex-Army Man On Theft Charge
HOW an ex-Army officer had failed to hand in donations collected by him for a children's Christmas party promoted by the Marrickville Returned…
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A MINIMUM gaol sentence of three years for blackmarketing was suggested last…
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ARTHUR ANDREW tA BEACH (47). ship's steward, who has been charged with the murder of…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Gaolbreaker Barnes Goes to Police 10-Days' Liberty Gaol Escapee In His A.I.F. Uniform
After former war hero Crofton Edward Barnes (26), the Long Bay Gaol escapee, had surrendered himself at the C.I.B. yesterday, his heart-broken…
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Two of Sydney's 36 women police will appear on the streets in uniform next Wednesday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Allegation In Shooting Case
POLICE alleged at Central Court this week that a postman had shot the husband of a woman he had been found kissing after o party. Robert John Murray (31)…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Court Kiss for Bulldog
A MAN kissed a bulldog at Central Court this week to prove it was docile and would not have bitten…
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A 19-YEARS-OLD clerk, Milne McDonald, was alleged by police at Central Court on Wednesday to have obtained, by illicit…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police, council move against city vice dens
Police and Sydney City Council are seeking stricter control over city, residentials to stop some being used for…
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