Forty or fifty passengers on the Bulimba ferry motor launch had a nerve-racking experience on Saturday morning. At least, one ...
Article : 322 wordsA miscellaneous collection of goods, including tobacco, cigarettes, and fruit, and tools alleged to be a burglar's kit are held at Roma Street police station ...
Article : 175 wordsAlan Zackariah Skyring, aged 14½ years, was buried by [?] fall of sand from, the bank of Kedron Brook at Alderley on December 9 and was ...
Article : 150 wordsThe body of a young man was [?] in the river about 5 p.m. on Saturd[?] in an advanced state, of decomposit[?]. The inquest showed that death [?] ...
Article : 76 wordsAfter having been lost in the bush near Langlo Crossing, in the Charleville district, for over 24 hours, Bridget Wessell, who left her home at Box ...
Article : 75 wordsAt the criminal sittings of the Supreme Court Chief Justice Blair on Dec. 9 passed sentence on Harry Young, who on the previous day was found ...
Article : 64 wordsAn accident occurred shortly a[?] midday yesterday, when some [?] were amusing, themselves by firing [?] a target at Lake's Creek. Joseph ...
Article : 227 wordsHurtling along the track at 40 miles an hour, W. J. Simpson, who was taking part in the motor cycle teams race at Woree Speedway on Saturday ...
Article : 99 wordsAt Enfield, near Adelaide, yesterday morning, Alfred Benson (61), a retired butcher, shot his wife, Martha Gare Benson (65). and after twice ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Ambulance Brigade received a call to attend Robert Landesman (18), who was suffering from a bullet wound in the head, believed to have ...
Article : 56 wordsA sensational crash occurred in the final of the sidecar handicap at the Melbourne Motordrome on Saturday night, while the machines were ...
Article : 159 wordsAn attempt was made last night to blow up the premises of Frederick Clarke, a bootmaker and repairer, of Parramatta Road, Concord. The charge ...
Article : 172 wordsThe death has occurred of a well known farmer in the Hawkin's Creek district, Mr. Giovanni Volpi. With neighbouring farmers and a gang the ...
Article : 98 wordsFollowing the case of a farmer [?] the Byron Bay District, who died from poison which a tick had lodged in his ear, comes the report of the death from ...
Article : 131 wordsSix shops at Solomontown, a suburb of Port Pirie, caught fire on Saturday, afternoon. An effort was made to extinguish, the flames ...
Article : 83 wordsDazzled by the headlights of an approaching car on the Point Nepean Road late on Saturday night, Mr. Hawkes, of Maribyrnong Road, ...
Article : 71 wordsYesterday afternoon Grace J Holman (19), a clerk employed at Fitzroy, was held up by a man and robbed of £118 which she had drawn from the bank for ...
Article : 108 wordsJohn Bates (40, married) was delivering mills when his horse fell. On getting out of the cart he found a wire lying across the road, and he ...
Article : 103 wordsA car driven by Leslie J. Galley (32), of Norton Street, Ashfleld, was rounding a sharp curve in Liverpool Road. near Warwick Farm, last night, when ...
Article : 125 wordsWillie Joan Dorothy Reynold, nearly four years old, the daughter of Mr. Edward Reynold, of Bacon Street. Grafton, was playing with two ...
Article : 109 wordsA man who has not yet been identified was killed and a woman terribly injured when a motor cycle collided with a car in Marine Parade, St. ...
Article : 157 wordsA drowning accident occurred shortly before 10.o'clock yesterday morning, at the duckboards leading from the lower end of Victoria Street to the beach. ...
Article : 120 words"For God's sake send for the police. A note in these terms was found in a can by a milkman when he called at the house of William Alexander Foster, ...
Article : 100 wordsA young man, J. H. C. Beckenham (20), who arrived the previous day from Sydney, on transfer to the Mackay branch of the Primary Producers' ...
Article : 190 wordsA plea or insanity was entered on behalf of Sidney Goulter, who gave no evidence to-day when tried for the murder of Constance Oliver in ...
Article : 318 wordsAlthough [?] people [?] [?] tioned for the reprieve of William Haines, he is to be executed on Friday for the murder of Nellie Devina ...
Article : 30 wordsTwo boys, John Dewhurst (3), of Herbert Street, Albert Park, and Bertram Wagstaff (4), of Mills Street, Albert Park, were run down by an ...
Article : 48 wordsNathaniel Swandells, also known as Edward McNeill (22), fell 60 feet from the Milson's Point section of the harbour bridge yesterday afternoon, ...
Article : 68 wordsA woman was killed and her husband and son seriously injured in a collision at Canberra on Sunday between a motor coach and a motor car, ...
Article : 124 wordsPolice reports [?] disclose the story of an extraordinary joy-ride. It is alleged that a party of men stole a motor car at Adelaide and drove it ...
Article : 82 wordsAlexander Zoubkoff, husband of Princess Victoria, sister of the ex-Kaiser, was riding a motor cycle when it went wrong and Zoubkoff violently collided ...
Article : 160 wordsStones which were jammed between the rails at South Geelong Junction almost caused the wreck of the "Geelong Flyer" on Saturday. The engine left the ...
Article : 60 wordsPercy Lyons, a young farmer, was found dead on some land that he was cultivating on the Waterfall Estate at Triholm, near Korumburra. It is ...
Article : 97 wordsSix natives, principals in the Gaubalcana massacre last February, were executed by hanging on Saturday in Tulagi gaol. ...
Article : 43 wordsA guest at a wedding feast in a village near Vilna, Poland, brought a shell which he had found on a nearby battlefield. He started to ...
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The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Fri 16 Dec 1927, Page 17
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