Youth Charged With Shooting At Father
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Victoria's seventh violent crime since Christmas Eve occurred today when 60-years-old Sydney Harry Maggs, of Brunswick, was shot in the shoulder at his home…
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12,389 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250
Car Hits Pole, Two Hurt, Man Charged
A car crashed in to a pole in Victoria Street, Rozelle, last night, damaging a shop awning. The front of the car was…
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LOS ANGELES, Saturday.—Fred Stroble (67) refused to look at any of the 15 gruesome photographs…
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COMMONWEALTH investigators have discovered a gold-smuggling ring operating between Australia and the East. Blackmarket prices are up…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grim Story of Death in Flat He crawled round and kissed his dying mother on the face. Now he is charged with her murder
BALDING, heavily-built, florid-faced Harold William Plummer (57), of 50 Hunger St., Lewisham, looked somewhat out of place on Thursday, as he sat between two burly policemen in the tiny, drab City Coroner's…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The "Witchraft" Murder Mystery An old man lay murdered. His injuries were hideous. Was it a witchcraft murder?
ANYBODY can become a witch. All you do is recite an ancient spell that conjures…
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THE fun was fast and furious for a while up near the Cross on the night of December 30, when, according to police evidence, three young ladies took it on themselves to…
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A rough and bumpy court yesterday helped to eliminate George Worthington from the Manly singles final with John Bromwich. Bromwich won 6-2,…
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The number of murders in New South Wales and in Victoria in 1949 was the lowest for many years, although Melbourne had four in the last week of the year…
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The Fahy murder has provided detectives with one of the greatest mysteries in Australian crime history. Every member of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →TODAY: Presenting... ...real life court dramas "I did it because I am Satan"
THERE has been no more poignant story for a decade than that told to the Acting City Coroner during the week when he had to decide how gentle, elderly Mary Ann…
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NEWARK (New Jersey). --Thieves took 1500 false teeth, in 250 sets of six teeth each, from a New York laboratory…
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NEWARK (New Jersey). -- Thieves took 1500 false teeth, in 250 sets of six teeth each, from a New York laboratory…
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A 33-year-old fitter who was sentenced to three months' gaol for driving a car while under the influence…
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A 25- years -old laborer put his foot through a plate- glass window while attempting to kick a…
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A 25 -years -old laborer put his foot through a plate- glass window while attempting to kick a…
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A MAN who pleaded guilty at Central Court today to driving his car in George St., City, on Saturday, while under the influence of intoxicating…
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A MAN who pleaded guilty at Central Court today to driving' his car in George St., City, on Saturday, while under the influence of intoxicating…
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MAN who pleaded! guilty cat Central Court today to driving his car in George St., City, on Saturday, while under the influence of intoxicating…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Driver Called Menace; Three Months' Gaol
A MAN who pleaded .guilty at Central Court today to driving his 'car in George St., City, on Saturday, while under the influence of intoxicating…
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