The history of highway robbery in the Commonwealth has hitherto chiefly bean made outside of South Australia; but on Thursday Port Adelaide supplied a case ...
Article : 754 wordsThe news of the robbery was first communicated to the Port Adelaide police by telephone from the Block 14 smelting works. This was at five minutes past 2 ...
Article : 577 wordsMr. Winter was perfectly satisfied that the police had secured one of the men and is ready to swear to Lawson's identity with the rider who shot his pony. ...
Article : 196 wordsWhile the crowd in front of the police station was at its thickest Detective Byrne, of the Port police, detained a man upon whom suspicion had been cast through his ...
Article : 156 wordsThe supposition that more than two men were engaged in the robbery has been confirmed. The Commissoner of Police has received information to the effect that ...
Article : 200 wordsAlbert William Noblet, labourer, working at Block 14 Smelting Works, said on Thursday afternoon he was discharging trucks near the works. He saw Messrs. Greenway ...
Article : 484 wordsSubsequently the police arrested in Adelaide three men, who were taken to the watchhouse for the night. They will be conveyed to Port Adelaide this morning, ...
Article : 47 wordsOne of these men who was captured by Detective Mitchell caused the officer considerable trouble. Mitchell came upon him in Light square, and he made a bolt for it. ...
Article : 103 wordsThe police on Friday succeeded in effecting the arrest of a man who they consider has been proved conclusively to be one of the two highwaymen concerned in the ...
Article : 295 wordsNo trace has yet been discovered of the robbers' haul, and it is believed to have been buried. Every effort is being made by the police to recover it. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe greatest interest was displayed during Friday in the efforts of the police to capture the freebooters who so successfully planned and carried out the daring ...
Article : 371 wordsAlfred Lawson, who was arrested in Adelaide on Friday, was-brought up at the Port Adelaide Police Court on Saturday morning. Public excitement ran high, and ...
Article : 235 wordsMr. Winter's story, told to a representative of "The Observer" was as follows: —"The affair occurred shortly before 2 o'clock, just at the bend of the Ocean ...
Article : 471 wordsLawson, in charge of Detectives Edwards and Northridge, was escorted to Port Adelaide by the 2.35 p.m. train from Adelaide, and on arrival he was at once taken to the ...
Article : 229 wordsAt 5 o'clock on Satu[?]day afternoon Myles Flynn was brought before Messrs. W. Johnstone, S.M., S. Malin, and H. J. Pudney, and charged—"That on January 23, at Port ...
Article : 154 wordsMr. J. Winter, assistant manager of the Block 14 Smelting Company, was the first wi[?]ness called. He stated that as manager he had been in the habit of drawing money ...
Article : 707 wordsOn Saturday morning the employes at Block 14 Smelting Works received their wages. The money was taken to the works under police escort. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe first man called to prove identification was Mr. A. E. Ginn, landlord of the Colac Hotel, who had informed the police that one of the two men had called at his ...
Article : 302 wordsAt 8 o'clock on Friday morning Mr. W. Anderson gave information at the Adelaide Watchhouse that he saw a man abandon his horse at about 3 o'clock the previous ...
Article : 536 wordsA statement has been repeatedly made during the last day or two in Port Adelaide that law son is a native of Port Adelaide. It is said that he was recognised ...
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Advertising : 53 wordsMr. Green way, when seen by a representative of "The Register" in the casualty hospital, was still suffering from shock and A few slight bruises caused by his ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 1 Feb 1902, Page 34
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