Wife Set Fire To Him, Man Says
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 March 1950 · page 3
A husband said in the Divorce Court today that, just because he was tired and dozed off in a chair one evening when his wife wanted him to go out, she threw methylated spirit on him and put a match to it. "I went up in flames," he said…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 March 1950 · page 14
A fire in a ventilation duct at the Sun newspaper office in Elizabeth Street yesterday afternoon…
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The Broadcaster · Wednesday 29 March 1950 · page 3
Existing facilities for the giving of a direct alarm to the Fire Brigade, from the area adjacent to tilt comer of Barcorn Street and Fowler Road,…
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Construction · Wednesday 29 March 1950 · page 4
As a change from firing broadsides at the A. L.P. Executive, the Premier, Mr. McGirr, on Saturday last, March 25th, fired a blast of dynamite at the Illarwill quarry, Woodford Island, to mark…
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The Sun · Wednesday 29 March 1950 · page 19
A warning that treating pine-cones with certain chemicals for burning in domestic fires to produce "colored fire"…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 March 1950 · page 4
Sparks from oxy-welding gear set alight paper dust and a film of printer's ink in an air duct in the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 March 1950 · page 2
LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.).--A sketch of a Russian atomic rocket-launching battleship appeared today in the London Daily Telegraph…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 March 1950 · page 5
The Leader of the State Opposition, Mr. V. H. Treatt, and the Liberal M.L.A. for Lane Cove, Mr. K. McCaw, were charged yesterday with instigating the bribery Commission for…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 March 1950 · page 3
PHILADELPHIA, March 30 (A.A.P.).—Nine men mental patients, five of them, chained to concrete slabs, died in a blaze in a private sanatorium here last night. Heroic attendants freed…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 31 March 1950 · page 3
PHILADELPHIA, Friday.--A convicted arsonist, and mental patient, Nicholas Verna (26) has confessed that he parted the tragic fire in the fashionable Belle Vista panatorium in which nine patients were killed yesterday…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 31 March 1950 · page 3
PHILADELPHIA, Friday. -- A convicted arsonist and mental patient, Nicholas Verna (26) has confessed that he started the tragic fire in the fashionable Belle Vista sanatorium in which nine patients were killed yesterday…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 31 March 1950 · page 3
PHILADELPHIA, Friday. -- A convicted arsonist and mental patient, Nicholas Verna (26) has confessed that he started the tragic fire in the fashionable Belle Vista sanatorium in which nine patients were killed yesterday…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 31 March 1950 · page 3
PHILADELPHIA,Friday. -- A convicted arsonist and mental patient, Nicholas Verna (26) has confessed that he started the tragic fire in the fashionable Belle Vista sanatorium in which nine patients were killed yesterday…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 31 March 1950 · page 3
PHILADELPHIA, Friday. -- A convicted arsonist and mental patient, Nicholas Verna (26) has confessed that he started the tragic fire in the fashionable Belle Vista sanatorium in which nine patients were killed yesterday…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 31 March 1950 · page 2
PHILADELPHIA, Friday.--Nicholas Verna (26), ex-soldier patient, has admitted that he started the fire which killed nine mental patients in a private sanatorium on Wednesday night…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 March 1950 · page 2
NEW YORK, Thurs. (A.A.P.). -- Nine mental patients, five of them chained…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 31 March 1950 · page 2
PHILADELPHIA, Friday.--Nicholas Verna (26), ex-soldier patient, has admitted that he started the fire which killed nine mental patients in a private sanatorium on Wednesday night…
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The Sun · Friday 31 March 1950 · page 1
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday.--A patient admitted today that he started the fire that killed nine inmates of the Belle Vista Sanatorium last night. Police said Nicholas Verna…
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Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 April 1950 · page 5
Aye, the place is big all right, but then, the McGravys were always like…
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Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 April 1950 · page 5
Aye, the place is big all right, but then, the McGravys were always like…
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