New Car Theft Ruse
The N.R.M.A. last night warned motorists that car thieves had adopted a new ruse for stealing cars — placing a handful of small stones inside hub-caps. A spokesman for the…
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Men Charged With Threat To Witness
MELBOURNE, Saturday.— A man charged with stealing and three other men allegedly threatened a police witness last…
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JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 21 (A.A.P.).—Police have flashed radio messages to Leopoldville (Belgian Congo) asking officials…
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PARIS, Saturday.—Three daring and desperate French bandits, armed with tommy-guns, are trying to break out of a nation-wide police net, carrying with them £200,000 worth of jewellery and gems stolen from the…
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FURTHER evidence concerning the police raid on the B.B. Club. Darling-hurst. on December 2 will be…
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Last month a mild-looking, bespectacled professor of St. Paul, Minnesota, predicted that a killer who slashed a girl to death two years ago, would soon repeat his crime. This week St. Paul police…
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LONDON, Jan. 21 (A.A.P.).—A doctor re-enacted at the Old Bailey yesterday the five stabs that killed Stanley Setty, a car dealer last October…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Divorce Court Criticism Of Wife Beater
"It is difficult to believe that a man could beat his wife, who in this case is only a small woman, so…
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TOKYO, Jan. 21 (A.A.P.-Reuter).—The Japanese police will not co-operate with Australian investigators in tracking down suspected war criminals for trial at Manus Island, according to reliable reports here to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police rush escaped boy to doctor Life in danger without injection
After recapturing a 13-year-old escapee late yesterday police rushed him to Child Welfare doctors for injections to save his life. The boy escaped from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Pressure" By Department Charged Council Accommodation "Scandal" As U.K. Election Issue P.M.'s Sister, Labour M.P.s, NAMED From Our Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.
LONDON, Jan. 21.—A local government housing "scandal" involving the 74-year-old sister of the Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, and three Labour members of the House of…
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MARSEILLES, Monday.--Lindsay Watson, 51-years-old retired French army colonel, of Scottish descent, was formally charged yesterday with complicity in the theft of jewels…
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MARSEILLES, Jan. 22 (A.A.P.).—French police this morning charged Lindsay Watson, 51-year-old retired…
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LONDON, Sun. (A.A.P.).--French police investigating the Aga Khan jewel robbery have arrested a man who claims to…
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ADELAIDE, Monday. -- William Henry Rogers (41), laborer, St John St., Renown Park, was charged this afternoon with the murder of Elva Eugenie Stewart (33). a…
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ADELAIDE, Monday. -- William Henry Rogers (41), laborer, St. John St., Renown Park, was charged this afternoon with the murder of Elva Eugenie Stewart (33), a…
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ADELAIDE, Monday. -- William Henry Rogers (41), laborer, Sh John St., Renown Park, was charged this afternoon with the murder of Elva Eugenie Stewart (33), a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Laborer Faces Murder Charge
ADELAIDE, Monday.--William Henry Rogers (41), laborer, St. John St., Renown Park, was charged this afternoon with the murder of Elva Eugenie Stewart (33), a…
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ADELAIDE, Monday. -- William Henry Rogers (41), laborer, St. John St., Renown Park, was charged this afternoon with the murder of Elva Eugenie Stewart (33), a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mara Fined For Theft Of Club Poker Machine
Claiming that a poker machine was not. paying out correctly, a man had carried it from Sydney…
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