Murder On The North Shore On the list of unsolved murder mysteries on New South Wales police files is the brutal killing in a North Shore train of Francis Cecil Kemmins, popular manager of the Hornsby branch of the Government Savings Bank. The mystery is recalled in this article by James Taylor
The Sunday Herald · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 2
ON the night of January 7, 1922. Kemmins was hit on the head and robbed on a North Shore train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Say New "Raffles" Stole Jewels In American Film World From Our Staff Correspondent
The Sunday Herald · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 3
NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Police in Cleveland (Ohio) have arrested a man whom they describe as "a great lover and a great robber."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Comic Court Hits Top, But in Doubt for Sydney Cup Carbon Copy visit certain
The Sun · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 15
COMIC COURT, who beat Carbon Copy in the Gisborne Handicap at Moonee Valley yesterday, still is a doubtful Sydney Cup starter even if he visits…
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The Sunday Herald · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 16
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—With successes at Moonee Valley to-day by St. Comedy and Comic Court, the Lee family, of Adelaide, has now won about £15,000 from the progeny of Powerscourt and Witty Maid…
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Truth · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 17
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Carbon Copy hung crepe on his St. Leger and Sydney Cup admirers when he failed to down Comic Court in the Gisborne Handicap at Moonee Valley today…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 6
STANLEY SHEPHERD (40), laborer, pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions today to a charge of theft and was…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 2
STANLEY SHEPHERD (40), laborer, pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions today to a charge of theft and was…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 6
STANLEY SHEPHERD (40), laborer, pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions today to a charge of theft and was…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 1
In the ravine (above) French police recently found the body of M. Thelier, stuffed into a wicker basket. Thelier, wealthy businessman, of Sables D'Olonne (Western France), had been murdered. Investigations by detectives led to the arrest…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 1
In the ravine (above) French police recently found the body of M. Thelier, stuffed into a wicker basket. Thelier, wealthy businessman, of Sables D'Olonne (Western France), had been murdered. Investigations by detectives led to the arrest…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 1
Police (above) examine a wicket basket in which the body of M. Thelier, wealthy businessman, was concealed after he had been murdered at Sables D'Olonne (Western France). Andre Farre (top left), an employee of the…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 1
In the ravine (above) French police recently found the body of M. Thelier, stuffed into a wicker basket. Thelier, wealthy businessman, of Sables D'Olonne (Western France), had been murdered. Investigations by detectives led to the arrest…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 1
In the ravine (above) French police recently found the body of M. Thelier, stuffed into a wicker basket. Thelier, wealthy businessman, of Sables D'Olonne (Western France), had been murdered. Investigations by detectives led to the arrest…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 1
In the ravine (above) French police recently found the body of M. Thelier, stuffed into a wicker basket. Thelier, wealthy businessman, of Sables D'Olonne (Western France), had been murdered, investigations by detectives led to the arrest…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 14
STANLEY SHEPHERD (40), laborer, pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions today to a charge of theft and was…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 1
Police (above) examine a wicket basket in which the body of M. Thelier, wealthy businessman, was concealed after he had been murdered at Sables D'Olonne (Western France). Andre Farre (top left), an employee of the…
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The Sun · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 5
Two women, one the mother of seven children and the other the mother of nine, were threatened with gaol today for shoplifting…
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The Sun · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 5
Former well-known boxer, Peter Spagnola, 42, was sentenced today in Central Court, to three months gaol by Mr…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 2
FORMER well-known boxer Peter Spagnola (42); was sentenced at Central Court today to three months' gaol o[?]…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 5
A man about 60 years old smashed the plate glass window of a boot shop in Miller Street, North Sydney, yesterday…
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