Pine Creek Riot Attack on Police Station Canberra
The Communistic section of the unemployed is blamed for the attack on the Pine Creek police station, in the Northern Territory, according to official reports…
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Courts & crime, 1932
1,471 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 74
On Xmas Eve Seasonal Revelry? Nipped in the Bud Police Activity at Grafton
A series of prosecutions under the Liquor Act was heard before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday following a visit by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Charged £20,000 Defalcations Alleged. Adelaide
Herbert Miller Haines appeared before the police court on three charges of larceny, the amounts totalling £5400, from Fischer and Copley, stock and station…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maintenance Arrears Four Men Sent to Gaol. Townsville
Drastic penalties were imposed by[?] local court to-day in four cases for[?] recovery of maintenance arrears.[?] sums involved totalled £492, and the[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder Trial West Australian Case Views of Counsel and Judge. Perth
When the trial of Richard Graham Chappell on a charge of having murdered Linton Lethlean was resumed at the Criminal Court to-day, accused's counsel,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Local and General Charge of Dog Stealing
Before Mr. J. Tarn, J.P., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday, William Clarence Winberg, 31, was charged With having stolen a collie dog, of the value of £66,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It Didn't Work Prisoner's Request to Magistrate. Newcastle
When Jack Morrison, 26, was charged at Newcastle Court with having broken and entered a house at Hamilton and stolen jewellery and clothing valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Not Guilty W.A. Murder Trial. Perth
The case in which Richard Graham Chappell was charged with having wilfully murdered Linton Lethlean was concluded. The jury returned a verdict of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Find Gunpowder, Bullets, Guns Garage As Ammunition Dump Sydney
Sydney detectives arrested a man last Monday, on an alleged breaking and entering charge. Subsequently they searched an old…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Double Murder American Woman and Maid Police Looking for Negro. New York
A murder which has aroused nationwide attention occurred at Middleburg (Virginia), America's most fashionable hunting country, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bank Clerks in Trouble Alleged Theft of £2770. MELBOURNE
A charge involving a theft of £2770 belonging to the Commercial Bank of Australia was preferred against two tellers employed by the bank, Frank Watkin and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tas. Co. Three Directors Charged £360,720 Missing. Hobart
The hearing of charges of conspiracy against George Llewellyn Meredith, Reginald Askew Sutton and Richard William, arising out of the flotation of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lismore Murder Inquest Opened and Adjourned. Lismore
An inquest was opened to–day into the death of Rham Chund, 50, who died at North Lismore last Sunday from terrible wounds inflicted with an axe…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Owed Wife £600 What Police Inquiries Revealed
When the police at Young arrested a man on a vagrancy charge before the holidays he was detained pending inquiries as to his record…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder and Plunder on Steamer Passengers' Terrible Ordeal Shanghai
Piracy, murder, and violence, culminating in the deaths of three Chinese passengers and the wounding of a score of others, marked the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Desert Interlude Tramp Keeps Police Busy Adelaide
A young German tramp, Max Brunner, naked, and dying from thirst, was found in the desert many miles from Port Augusta, after being tracked for 12 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fierce Defence Madman and Canadian Mounted Police. Vancouver
A message from Edmonton says when attempting to arrest Albert Johnson, a demented trapper, in his barricaded Arctic cabin, after he had shot and seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Raids Sydney And Melb. Offices Arrests in Two Cities Sale of Foreign Lottery Tickets. Sydney
After inquiries lasting several months, the police visited an office in City Tattersall's Chambers, Pitt street, this afternoon, and arrested a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tellers Charged Theft of £2770 Admissions Alleged
It was alleged in the District Court. Melbourne, on Thursday that two tellers, who had been, employed tor about 25 years by the Commercial Bank of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol Explosions Hobart Prison Incidents. Hob Art
The second explosion within two months occurred at the Hobart gaol to-day. Fortunately no damage was done. An explosive was placed in a tin and…
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