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  2. 'I CONFESSED TO THE PRIEST!'

    "MY conscience troubled me. I went to see a priest, and he advised me to make a dean breast of die whole matter to a solicitor. This I did." SUCH was the statement credited to Hector Francis McDonald in the Police Court at Brisbane last week, wherein a young man stood under the charge of arson and ...

    Article : 1,650 words
  3. THE HOSE OF DEATH

    WHAT the police believe to have been a deliberate attempt on the life of the pretty , daughter of Mr. Morrie Levy, of Arcadia-street, off Arden-street, Coogee, was made under the cloak of darkness in the early hours of Thursday morning. DETECTIVES are searching for a man who connected a 40ft. garden hose with the gas ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 837 words
  4. "SHE BEGGED ME TO TAKE HER AWAY"

    ALTHOUGH he explains that he ran away in 1923 with Violet Barry, a young ward of the State, only because she had been threatened with a flogging by his wife, who was the child's foster-mother, Albert Peardon admits that the girl ...

    Article : 1,305 words
  5. NO LOVE LOST BETWEEN THIS MARRIED PAIR

    WEARING a skirt that was some inches above her knees, a smart hat, and a very black eye, Mrs. Florence Henrietta Douglas, a 17-years-old wife and mother, told a painful story of a fight that she said she had ...

    Article : 761 words
  6. HER SONS WERE

    "MY sons suffer from shell shock, and when they hear a procession of motor cycles with, their exhausts open, racing past ...

    Article : 492 words
  7. TOO MUCH POWER

    WHILST admitting that he had no jurisdiction to deal with the matter in question, Mr. Justice Long-Innes enunciated the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 318 words
  8. HE'S A PEST

    ANOTHER picture show pest met his just deserts when he came before Mr. Perry, S.M., at the Paddington Police Court last ...

    Article : 208 words
  9. GAOL FOR CHRISTMAS

    CAR owners will be pleased to learn that three pests who make it a practice to take free rides in other men's cars, got all that was coming to them when they appeared at Newtown Police Court last week. ...

    Article : 444 words
  10. OLD ORDER

    THE rolling pin has been the wife's legendry meant of defence and offence against her husband for centuries, but at ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 287 words
  11. IS ISSY BELL A BIGAMIST?

    THAT he had married twice—on the second occasion bigamously and had deserted both wives and families was the allegation made ...

    Article : 221 words
  12. Under the Hat

    DIOGENES, with all his wisdom, has been outdone. A defendant at the Central Court last week would not ...

    Article : 79 words
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