Fired Rifle In Street; Man To Pay £15/5/ Magistrate Takes Serious View
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 3
TELLING 22-year-old Malcolm Claude Patrick Shepley that it was by a fortunate occurrence that he had not appeared on a more serious charge, Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., in the Police Court today imposed fines and costs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Criticism Of Police Did Not Warn Accused Brisbane
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 1
DURING the hearing of the trial of conrad Edgar Gruber (17). who was acquitted of a charge of having murdered his father, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Attempted Theft From Church
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 8
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—While a verger and his son were in the vestry of the Anglican Cathedral at Newcastle yesterday they noticed a man…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Youth Acquitted of Murder Charge
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 8
BRISBANE, Tuesday.— Conrad Edgar Gruber (17) was acquitted and discharged at the Ipswich Circuit Court yesterday on a count of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Defied; Man Yields To Priest New York, April 3
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 8
A desperate gunman, besieged for hours in a crowded apartment house by 70 heavily armed police, was finally induced to surrender by a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Picturesque Film Of French Court
Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 6
ONE of the most picturesque and romantic fellows ever to strut across the pages of history. Francois Villon, forms the central…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Round the Shows "Slate Police" Attracts At Johnson's
Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 2
Bob Hope and Shirley Ross are costarred in "Thanks for the Memory," which will conclude at Johnson's Theatre tonight. The cast includes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Stop Boxing Contest
Barrier Miner · Saturday 8 April 1939 · page 8
BRISBANE, Saturday.— Alan Westbury (10.6[?]) defeated Horrie Bennell (10.3) on a, technical, knockout in the 12th and last round at the Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stop Press Local Men Before Adelaide Court
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 April 1939 · page 1
ADELAIDE.— For having received money from a minor for the purpose of betting at Oakbank yesterday, Herbert Aldridge…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →10 Years' Gaol For Aboriginal
Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 2
DARWIN, Thursday.— Found guilty of manslaughter, an aboriginal boy, Victor, aged 19 years, formerly a police tracker, who was arrested…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hut Murder Mystery Search For Cab Passenger MELBOURNE
Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 6
DETECTIVES investigating the mulder of the unidentified man whose partly clad body was discovered in a chaff bag in a dam at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murder 4t Dubbo Of Two Men Feared SYDNEY
Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 3
A MESSAGE from Dubbo states that police and civilians are engaged in an intensive search for the bodies of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fears for Two Men Police Suspect Foul Play SYDNEY
Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 6
Grave fears are held for two men who have disappeared between Cubbo and Narromine and who the police believe may be the victims of foul play,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Manager Ordered Gaol Term ADELAIDE
Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 April 1939 · page 6
HAROLD Frederick Saunders (52), who had been manager of Sir Walter Duncan's Gum Creek Station for 26 years, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Anonymous Letters Received by Police
Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 April 1939 · page 7
SYDNEY, Saturday— Police have received two anonymous letters which they believe may prove ot considerable assistance in clearing up the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →N.S.W. Auxiliary Police SYDNEY
Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 April 1939 · page 2
When details are completed it is expected that about 7000 men will, be sworn in as auxiliary members of the New South Wales, police foree, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Detectives Have Clue to Murder? Cyclist Being Sought MELBOURNE
Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 April 1939 · page 6
DETECTIVES have discovered a probable link with the cyclist who is thought to be the unidentified victim of the Dumosa hut murder, and for whom a State-wide search has been made for two weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Hopeless Ivagrant" Six Months' GaolOrdered
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 April 1939 · page 1
WITH over 40 convictions in four States since 1924 a man described as a "hopeless vagrant" was sentenced to six…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Theft of Sleepers Man To Pay £3 Fine
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 April 1939 · page 1
THE removal of seven sleepers from the Sydney railway line about 11 miles from Bioken Hill cost a young man £3 when he anpeaied before Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sequel to Car Collision Court Proceedings Against Two
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 April 1939 · page 3
A RISING out of a collision between two motor cars at the intersection of Jamieson and Central streets or the night of February 1, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →