IN the close little police office doing service for a courthouse at Dwellingup on Saturday, the dramatic story of the shooting of Charles Ibbott was brought to a close in the flickering light of an oil lamp. The story was told, and the sixteen-year-old boy, Thomas Lindsay Smith held in custody on a charge of murdering Ibbort, sat waiting the coroner’s verdict. At ten minutes past seven p.m. the coroner made his decision. He said: “I find that Charles Ibbott came to his death by ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 550 wordsSAMMY GRIGG IS TO BE PLACED IN AN INSTITUTION WHERE HE will received skilled and scientific treatment. But eleven years old, thereis still a chance that much may be done to stimulate the arrested development of Sammy’s mentality. His body is strong and ...
Article : 320 words“I DESIRE TO ADD,” SAID MR. J. J. LLOYD, J .P., IN THE CORONOR’S Court this week, after giving a verdict in the enquiry into the death of Oliver Hodgson, who was drowned in Freshwater Bay on October 6, or accidental death with no blame attachable to anyone, “that deceased’s ...
Article : 323 words[?] Even when he discarded the -oar he was unable to reduce much the distance between himself and the boat, for the wind had caught it amidships ...
Article : 343 words[?] used to have in the old days when they lived ln the country, first on the Groups and later at Greenbushes. “He doesn’t talk very well,” said Mr. ...
Article : 385 wordsALFRED HORDERN, IS ONE OF THE HORDERNS WHO NUMBERED amongst them Libius Hordern—the story of whose extraordinary suicide was recently published in “Truth.” He was a visitor from California, he told the Bench in the Traffic Court last week, when he ...
Article : 253 wordsFOUR DEAD AND ONE OLD BLIND INVALID ON THE POINT OF death with, two bullets in his ab domen. That is the toll of life taken by a man who ran amok at St. Elmo, Harrow-road, Rockdale, between 1 and 2 p.m. on Thursday. The dead were: Mrs. Edith Phoebe ...
Article : 363 wordsA store of a nature altogether unique is to be opened in Hay-street shortly. This is Woolworth‘s (W.A.) Ltd., arid will be the fifth of this firm’s ...
Article : 160 words[?]ssisting at that job,” said Smith. “Altogether, I helped to steal twelve or thirteen animals for Ibbott, and one of them I know belonged to Mr. ...
Article : 660 wordsOn getting back to Ibbot’s farm, witness found that a neighbour had removed the dog and he was able to examine the body of John Charles ...
Article : 983 words[?] as soon as lie mentioned Moore’s name Ibbott. rushed at him and said that he would kill him. He said, “Ibbort caught hold of me. ...
Article : 840 wordsTWO WELL KNOWN MOTOR cycle dirt track riders returned home with the Morton Bay, which passed through Fremantle ...
Article : 101 words[?] 2 o’clock to take Mrs. Claude Palmer shopping in her car. Receiving no response when she knocked at the front door, she saw old Mr. Palmer ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 515 wordsJAMES BALFOUR IS NOT A POLItician, but a shopkeeper in Market-street, Fremantle. Had he kept to politcs a la Balfour, he ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 216 wordsABOUT 4 A.M. ON TUESDAY last George Mulvay, orchardist, of Maddington, heard suspicious noises amongst his oranges and ...
Article : 180 wordsA drab housing for a dramatic story. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Truth (Perth, WA : 1903 - 1931), Sun 4 Nov 1928, Page 9
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