ON McFARLANE BRIDGE Alleged Negligent Driving Case at Maclean Police Court
Daily Examiner · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 2
At the Maclean Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. N. L. Sheridan, P.M., the police proceeded against Arthur Alex Ridding on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Found Dead Member Of A.I.F. Police Suspect Suicide. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 5
Harry Broad, 24, a member of the A.I.F., was found dead on the roof of a block of flats in Coogee this morning. A bullet wound was in his head, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Officers Dismissed Laxity At Farm Home Sequel to Home Burglary. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 January 1940 · page 5
Grave laxity in certain sections of the administration of the Mittagong Farm Home for Boys has been found by the Public Service Board, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mannerheim Line Assault Critical Stage For Finns Passed Lapps Fighting Russians in North Germany "Maintains Neutrality In Conflict" LONDON
Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 January 1940 · page 5
The Russian plans to envelop the Mannerheim line by breaking through worth-east of Lake Ladoga seem doomed to failure. The invaders' general offensive has made minimum progress in the past five days. Though pressure against the Finnrh lines is maintained the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Counterfeit Notes Fivers Circulated Police Warning 13 Arrests. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Monday 29 January 1940 · page 5
The Sydney police have issued a warning to all other States against the circulation of counterfeiter £5 notes. More than 200 of these notes were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scaled Wall Prisoner Breaks Gaol. Brisbane
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 5
Police unsuccessfully searched to-day for Arthur Halliday, 30, who escaped from Brisbane gaol during a religious service yesterday afternoon by means…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Forged Notes 12 Persons Charged Including One Woman Remands at Sydney Curt Sydney
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 4
Arising out of the distribution of forged £5 Commonwealth Bank [?]tes in the metropolitan area on Saturday 11 men and on woman were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Patrol Attempt At Theft Two Young Men Charged. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 2
According to evidence at the Central Police Court to-day Thomas Sydney McAlister (18) and Ernest Robertson (18) attempted last Saturday to steal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Assault Boats for Australian Army. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 5
The Minister for Supply and Development, Sir F. Stewart, announced today that Chapman Engineering Pty., Ltl., had been given a contract for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fine and Gaol An Automatic Pistol "Very Dangerous Man." Sydney
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 1
In addition to being fined £50, Daniel Kerry (25) was at the Central Police Court to-day sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for having carried an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£10,000 Fire Police Investigating. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 1
Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed a hotel and eight shops at Nanango last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Missing Man Found by Police. Darwin
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 1
Tramping for miles through flooded country, a party of constables and blacktrackers found Henry Cameron, 47, exhausted, starving and suffering…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FORGED £5 Notes Two Men at Kogarah Court. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 5
Charged at the Kogarah Police Court to-day with having uttered a forged £5 note at a hotel at Kogarah on Saturday Allan Stanley Clayton (21) and Joseph…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About a Dog Man Charged With Theft
Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 2
A small white woolly dog was a central figure in Coffs Harbour Police Court this morning, obviously quite oblivious of the fact…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clash at Inquest Police And Coroner Inspector's Resentment Leaving with Soiled Hands. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 5
There is a strong possibility that the police will make application to the Supreme Court for the reopening of the inquest on the death of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Marked Improvement In Prison Life at Grafton Gaol
Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 February 1940 · page 4
Conditions during the past twelve months have transformed this place of detention from a comparative "Old Men's Home" to a very busy, institution…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Theft of Dog At Coff's Harbor Man Fined
Daily Examiner · Monday 5 February 1940 · page 2
At Coff's Harbor Police Court on Friday, Oswald Kenny (48), of Tyndale, an unemployed fireman, was charged with having stolen a smal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Inquests May Be Reopened Police Chief's Application Sydney
Daily Examiner · Monday 5 February 1940 · page 4
It is now considered certain that the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mackay, will apply to the Supreme Court for an order to have two inquests…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers Sentenced Stole Military Clothes. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 February 1940 · page 5
Kenneth Frederick Tunbridge and William Lauder Carruthers, both members of the A.I.F., were sentenced to one month's gaol by the Magistrate,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Riot Sequel Two on Assault Charges. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 February 1940 · page 5
Arising out of the disturbance between soldier's and civilians in the Haymarket on Saturday night Ronald Scott, 22, and John Patrick Small, 19…
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