EXPLOSIVES Stolen By Children Police Radio Warnings. Sydney
Following six mysterious explosions at Concord on Saturday night, Burwood Brickworks, Ltd., to-day notified the police that 99 sticks of gelignite…
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Courts & crime, 1939
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Stolen Payroll Police Recover £479 Money Buried Near Fence. Melbourne
The whole of the Mildura electric supply staff's payroll of £479, which was stolen from Eric Allan, clerk, as he was taking it from the bank to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Laurieton Hold- Up Accused Before Court Remanded to June 7. KEMPSEY
At Kempsey Police Court this morning, Alan Roy Brown was charged that on May 27 at Laurieton, while armed with a revolver, he did assault…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mother Charged Murder Of Baby Comment by Coroner. Adelaide
After finding that she had murdered her baby boy, aged nine months, on May 20, the Coroner committed Evelyn Merle Meynell, 21, married, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Priest's Dream Prevented Theft
A dream which woke the administrator of St. Stephen's Cathedral (Dr. English) early on Monday morning prevented 3 burglary at the horns of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Six Months' Gaol S.P. Betting In Hotel Defendant's Second Offence. Sydney
Sentence of six months' imprisonment with hard labor was imposed on Robert Francis O'Connor, alias Drummond, 53, at Kogarah Police Court,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gas Masks Burned In Belfast Police Disperse Republicans. London
Within an hour of a pirate radio station somewhere in Ireland announcing that a thousand gas masks would be burned in Belfast streets as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£1000 THEFT Gold At Kalgoorlie Taken by Armed Bandits. Kalgoorlie
Masked and armed bandits secured £1000 worth of gold from Hannan's North mine early this morning Carrying revolvers, and with their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →S.P. BETTING Gaol Without Option for Second Offence. Sydney
In an effort to suppress illegal betting, the police intend in all future arrests for this class of offence to lay a charge under the section of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Narromine Case Unprecedented Action Double Murder Charge But No Dead Bodies Dubbo
In a case that is unperceived in New South Wales, Albert Andrew Moss, 61, laborer, was charged to-day with having committed two murders…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →N.U. Railwaymen Registration Upheld by Court Melbourne
The decision by the Industrial. Registrar, Mr. Murray Stewart, granting registration to the National Union of Railwaymen, was upheld by Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Theft Charge Dead Man's Money Constable and Another Acquitted. Wentworth
Cecil Roy Kirk and Constable John Theodore Rowland were acquitted today on a charge of having stolen £40 the property of the Public Trustee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Police Super. Visits Grafton Yesterday
Superintendent J. H. Aspery, newly appointed officer in charge of the northern police administrative district with headquarters at Tamworth, visited…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →458 WOMEN Tried For Murder Native Hacked to Death
In the Bible, Samson was brought low by one wily woman. It took 458 women to undo mighty Sampson Nkbinde of Verulam, South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bomb in Theatre Police Detain Man. London
A tear gas bomb exploded in the cloakroom at the Victoria cinema. A man has been detained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder Charge Shooting at Cabaret Dead Man's Depositions Door Smashed in Sydney
The shooting of Stanley James Leonard,25, at The Pirates Cave Cabaret, East Sydney, on March 15, was recalled to-day, when, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Dog Clue Narromine Mystery Moss Ex-Mental Patient Evidence in Murder Charge Dubbo
Albert Andrew Moss, 61, who has been charged with two murders, was a patient in the Orange Mental Hospital until late last year, according to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder Gangs Active in Jerusalem Police Patrol Wiped Out Unprecedented Sabotage Jerusalem
For Arabs were killed, and 20 wounded, when a bomb was thrown among buses at the Jaffa Gate. Three more bombs were thrown in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wilson Acquitted "Pirates' Gave" Murder Charge "Fired Only to Frighten." Sydney
Leslie Cornelius Wilson, 29, was acquitted at the Criminal Court to-day on a charge of having murdered Stanley James Leonard, 25, at the Pirates' Cave…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"I Killed Him" Alleged Confession Murder Charge At Dubbo "Put the Body in a Tree" Dubbo
"After I killed Robinson I put his body in a broken tree, about 20 feet up from the ground, on the reserve near Oaks Bridge."…
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