Man Burned to Death on Links Police Suspect Arson
Sydney detectives are investigating the death of an old man who was incinerated by a fire -which…
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High Court Chief’s Stand Attack On Soviet Union
MELBOURNE.—The Chief Justice of the High Court, Sir John Latham, made a slanderous political attack on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics at a recent luncheon of the Victorian Branch of the Royal Empire Society. “LIBERAL” Party defenders of High Court Judges…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Royal Court Surprises at Moorefield Peter Moore H'cap Upset
Starting at 257, lightweight Royal Court gave bookmakers a "skinner" when she beat Lady Marie (707) by a head and .Laudus (87) in the Peter Moore Handicap…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Royal Court Surprises at Moorefield Peter Moore H'cap Upset
Starting at 251, lightweight Royal Court gave bookmakers a "skinner" when she beat Lady Made (101) by a head and Loudus (81) in the Peter Moore Handicap…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Royal Court Surprises at Moorefield Peter Moore H'cap Upset
Starting at 251, lightweight Royal Court gave bookmakers a "skinner" when she beat Lady Marie (101) by a head and Laudus (81) in the Peter Moore Handicap…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Pampered Boy Kills Parents Accused Of Rifling Father's Pocket Police End Elopement
NEW YORK, Saturday.--The parents of Tommy Lee Phillips (16) pampered him because he was their only child, and he repaid their misplaced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Charged with Murder
ARTHUR ANDREW BEACH (47), steward, charged at Central Court on Tuesday with the murder of a woman at the Burlington Hotel, Hay St., Sydney, on December 29,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Court Story of Bowralattack On Charges Of Assault
THE tiny public gallery in Bowral Court was packed to overflowing on Tuesday when two young local plumbers appeared before Mr. Isles, S.M., on charges of having…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Alleged Gaol Break Plot
BRISBANE, Saturday.—Two men will be brought before the visiting magistrate as a result of an alleged discovery of a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boy Charged with Truancy
A 13-years-old boy who was charged with truancy, kicked and struggled and finally had to be held by…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Story of Theft During Wedding
A REMARKABLE story in which it was alleged that a bride's wedding presents were stolen from her home at the very time she was being wed at St. Andrew's Church, Summer Hill, on December 6, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Blind-Maker Remanded On Theft Charge
ALLEGATIONS that Lawrie Greene (64), blind-maker, Burton St., Darlinghurst, had been fleecing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Attempted Murder Charge Remand
CHARGED with having wounded Thomas Keating. 25, wheeler, at Minmi on Christmas Day, with intent to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →real life court dramas Police story of a body in a trunk
SHORT, stocky Arthur Andrew Beach, 47-year-old ship's steward, leaned on the rail of Central Court dock, wringing a handkerchief in his hands…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Charge of intent to murder
Police yesterday charged a 31-year-old postman at Gosford Court with having wounded William Joseph Relph,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Youth charged with shooting father on farm BRISBANE
A 15-YEARS-OLD youth was charged at Landsborough Court tonight with having attempted to kill his father at Conondale today. The father Ernest Edward Portch, 52, a farmer, survived a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Theft Charge Sequel to Marton Hall Night Naval Man's Story
A REQUEST for a cigarette in Hyde Park on the evening of December 23, and its sequel at fashionable Marton Hall Flats, Margaret St., were described at Central Court on Tuesday when an 18-years-old…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Trustees In Court Fight
IN the Equity Court next month, two executors of the £300,000 estate of the late Sir Joynton Smith…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Goodwill Tour Led to Court
A NEW YEAR'S Eve goodwill tour by Francis John Allard (31), wharf laborer, to wish his feminine friends…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Police hit at leniency for sex offenders
BONDS and short prison terms do not deter sex fiends, Police Metropolitan Superintendent McCarthy said yesterday. He said police searched 10 years for a…
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