Drivers "Under the Influence" Cases at Penrith Court
TWO more charges of driving vehicles while under th influence of intoxicating liquor came before Penrith…
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How Mrs. Holmes Solved a Murder The way she trapped the killer with a cup of coffee was a credit to the Holmes tradition. Ellery Queen's Crime File
THIS is the story of a detective named Holmes, who operated not in the gaslit fog of 19th-century London's Baker St. but from a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Hijacking Is Big Business Truck robberies have hit the big time in America. Unless they can be nipped in the bud here it will become top crime in Australia, too In America, there is a major hijacking crime, involving murder, every four minutes of the day and night
TRUCK cargo thieves, better known as hijackers, are becoming the new "big shots" of the United States underworld…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Fine, No Gaol Car Driver "Under Influence"
THE S.M. adjourned a case in which a car driver pleaded guilty to a charge of driving a car while under the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fraudulently Omitting to Account Three-and-a-half Years' Gaol
AT Parramatta Quarter Sessions on March 18 Harry Place of Railway Parade, Warrimoo, was sentenced to 3½…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seventy Charges Against Lads Influenced by Bad Literature Gaol Terms 3½ Years
About seventy charges of breaking, entering, and stealing, taking and using cars, etc., were preferred against three lads at last Parramatta Quarter Sessions, some of the offences being committed in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Youmy Blooa There was a murder victim, but the two self-confessed murderers did not know him
WHEN the ship left Naples for Marseilles, Johnson took to his cabin…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The Battling Prophet Part Eight The police were knocking at the door—but Bonaparte was busy. He bad three dead men on his hands
THE afternoon passed without incident. No voices up top disturbed Bony as he scanned…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Court's wage decisions won't comfort workers
THOUSANDS of non-trades men will find little comfort in some recent decisions on margins given by the NSW…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Plane Crew Confirms Murder Charges
CHINESE charges that American and Chiang Kai-shek murderers had caused the crash of the Air India aircraft carrying Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Proposed Hotel for Guildford Court Rejects Brewery's Appeal
The [?]un High Court last week refused to order the Parramatta City Council to approve of plans for a £100,000 hotell at Guildford…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MURDER at the WEDDING
THIS is a tale that is told in barrack rooms and bivouacs in Casablanca, Port Lyautey, Meknes, Fez. Marrakeshâwherever soldiers of…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →15 MINUTES At first the doctor was not sure why Milton had made suicide look like murder
"I WONDER," said Dr. Joseph, "you didn't call the police right away. Or didn't you…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Bits o'Rubber Rubber hot-wafer bottles — they caused mutiny and murder and brought a man halfway across the world to find them
SPRAWLING in a chair on the veranda of his palmthatched bungalow, Carton watched the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Plane crash was murder
PEKING.--The International Organisation of Journalists and the International Broadcasting Organisation have sent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unions will look at Court's margins decision
As well as debating the Court's refusal to double all margins, the Federal Unions Conference on May 10 will have to look at some of the Court's reasons for its refusal…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →WHOLESALE MURDER-and the kindly nurse a True Crime Story
AMONG murderesses, one of the most famous is Lizzie Borden, who chopped up her mother and father with an axe back before the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →From Chorus Girl to COUNTESS Her father-in-law tried hard to blacken Belle Briton's name in court, but failed dismally
FEW English divorces in the last century have aroused the furore created by that in which the young Viscount Dunlo sought to be rid of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →World protest on murder
THE murder of eight journalists flying to the Bandung Conference recently has aroused a storm of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Control on Parking
Parking in Church Street, Parramatta, was discussed recently between local traffic authorities and City…
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