Excellent Work Of Police Dogs
SYDNEY, Monday.—So successful has the training of police dogs become in this State that the Police Department is now considering…
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Courts & crime, 1938
652 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 33
Assault On Showgirl By Man Alleged
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Audrey Foley, 20-year-old dancer in the Marcua show at the Princess Theatre, who alleged that she was assaulted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Demsey Murder Inquest Crowds Clamor For Admission Much Evidence on Shooting Melbourne
LONG before 9 a.m. a crowd ot spectator's began to gather outside the morgue in the hope of gaining admission to the building to witness proceedings in the Demsey truck murder inquest. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cameras In Court Drama
A scene which could never take place in an English court. Press photographers crowding the courtroom to photograph Mme. Schmeder (right), the French airwoman, who was tried for the murder of her lover, Pierre re Lallemant, while they were flying in her aeroplane. Also in the picture is Mme. Schmeder's lawyer, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →2 Men Held For Murder On High Seas Los Angeles, January 4
ROBERT Horne, a passenger, and George Spernak, one of the crew of the schooner Aafje, whose passengers suffered a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mystery Run Of Truck Demsey Murder Inquest Story "Bang Heard Quarter Of Mile Away' MELBOURNE
SO that he might inspect all the localities mentioned in the inquest on John Thomas Demsey (39), transport driver, the Coroner (Mr. Tingate, P.M.) adjourned proceedings at 1 p.m. and set out half an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Light On Newcastle Murder Paper Boy Tells His Story Goods Found Near School Newcastle
HOW he had pointed out to a gardener, Leonard Roberts, a handbag, gloves, handkerchief, and bangle when he went to deliver a paper to the Broughton School on November 28 was recalled by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tried to Bribe Police Officers Bootmaker Gaoled for Unlawful Possession Adelaide
WHEN detectives discovered £1 notes and coins totalling £14/8/5½ in tins and matchboxes in the pockets of George Murphy (67), [?]ootmaker, of W hitmore-square, he told them that a man in Ifould-street, California, had given him the money…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Witness Warned In Murder Inquest Severe Questioning Of Houseman About Movements Keen Interest at Newcastle Newcastle
LEONARD William Roberts, houseman at Broughton School, denied in evidence to-day at the resumption of the Newcastle inquest that he had asked Dorothy May Everett to go out with him. He…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Happenings At Footscray Hotel Demsey Murder Inquest Evidence Heard About Orange Drink MELBOURNE
HAPPENINGS during a visit to a Footscray hotel by McFarlane, O'Keefe. Reeve and Grahame, who are in custody on a charge of murder, were detailed to-day to the Coroner (Mr. Tingate, P.M.) by a witness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Publie Out of Court Newcastle Murder Inquest NEWCASTLE
FURTHER questioned by Mr. Wheeler (for Roberts) at the inquest into the death of Dorothy May Everett, a denial that the night she went to Roberts room she had arranged to see him for five minutes before she and…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—At the inquest on Arthur Kingsley Taplin, of Sydney, who was fatally shot in an affray in an hotel bar on December…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Murder Villa" Secrets Mother Love Plea PARIS, January 7
A mother's love was the excuse that Madame Colette Tricot gave to the examining magistrate (M. Berry), at Versailles for not revealing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Arbitration Court Judge Appointed
MELBOURNE, Saturday.— Mr. Harold Bayard Piper, barrister, of Adelaide, has been appointed as the fourth judge of the Arbitration…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Police for Border. Checking Disease SYDNEY
At the police barracks, Redfern, 100 young men who have passed the probationary poriod as members of the New South Wales. police force,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Seeking Lorry Driver
The driver of the wood lorry which is alleged to have been an indirect cause for an accident on the Stephens Creek road on Thursday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Stabbing in Oxide-St. Court Story
EVIDENCE of how he had allegedly been stabbed in an affray in Oxide-street was given by Richard Boulus (22) in the Police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Amazing Story by Detective in Newcastle Case What "Miss X" Told Police NEWCASTLE
DECLARING that Miss X, the girl whose name had been suppressed, had told him that she was satisfied that Leonard William Roberts, houseman at Broughton School, had killed Dorothy May…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Finding of Demsey Truck Graphic Story by Police Grave In The Scrub MELBOURNE
POLICE witnesses graphically related to the Coroner at the-Demsey truck inquest to-day how an organised search of the area in which, the truck was found, had led to the discovery of Demsey's body…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trail Of Blood Stains Followed Police Seeking Wounded Man Shooting Drama in Farmhouse Melbourne
WOUNDED in the stomach, without food, and clad only in trousers and coat, a man who was found shot in a farmhouse at Gembrook on Friday afternoon is believed to be wandering in the dense…
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