Police Defended. by Chief Secretary. Unfair to Condemn Force
Speaking at the annual dinner of the N.S. Wales Police Association, Commissioner Mackay urged members of the force to ignore attacks,…
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Courts & crime, 1937
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Police View Licensing S.P. Shops Motion Defeated Sydney
A motion that the Government be asked to licence S.P. betting shops was defeated at the New South Wales Police Association conference to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attacks on Police Force Mr Chaffey Describes Them As Cowardly
Speaking at the annual banquet of the Police Association of New South Wales on Wednesday night, the Chief Secretary, Mr F.A. Chaffey, referred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clark Cable Appears in Court Woman on Extortion Charge
A message from Los Angeles states that Clark Gable, the actor, appeared in Court on Tuesday, when the trial began of Mrs Vivian Norton, who is charged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sales Tax On Second-Hand Goods Court to Decide Sydney
The High Court will shortly be asked to decide the right to refunds of persons who pay sales tax in New South Wales on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Plea for Shorter Week Court Advocate Views Work As a Curse
Addressing the Common wealth Public Service Arbitrator (Mr J. C. Westhoven) in Melbourne on Wednesday during the hearing of a claim for a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dangerous Theft Detonators Stolen SYDNEY
[?]in sydney are [?]to trace 8000 dolonation which have been [?]from a magazine in Greenwich,it was found that the door of…
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Arthur Semple, aged 28, who escaped from the Emu Plains Prison Farm on March Band later surrendered to the farm authorities, has been released…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →High Treason in Germany American Jew Sentenced to Death
It is now disclosed that the Jew, Helmut Hirsel, aged 21, who was sentenced to death on March 8 on a charge of high treason or bringing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Missing Sydney Launch Wrecked Police Searching Sydney. Saturday
The shares on the ocean side of Kurnoll are being combed by police and evidence in the region where it is believed three men were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Californian Strike Fight 50 Wounded When Police Open Fire
At least 50 persons were wounded, several critically, in a battle between union strikers non-union workers, and State police at a canning factory at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr and Mrs Lyons Attend Venice Military Display Police Escort on Trains
The Australian Prime Minister (Mr J. A. Lyons) and Mrs Lyons left Venice on Thursday morning a few minutes before the arrival of Signor Mussolini…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jury Guilty of Contempt of Court Went on a Week-end Spree
Judge Epstein, in the Criminal Court at Chicago, found an entire jury guilty of contempt of Court. He sentenced 11 jurors to imprisonment, and fined…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Muswellbrook Police Court. Alleged Bird Stealing
On the 22nd instant Harry Somery Smith (25) was charged before the local court with stealing three turkeys, of the value of £7, the property…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Sent to Gaol. Could Not Explain Possession of Gold
In a raid of a five-head battery at Kurnalpi (Kalgoorlie) on April 11, members of the gold-stealing detection staff found 400lb. of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dead Men Found. Double Murder Suspected. Hobart
Two men, whose bodies were found on the road near Ulverstone this afternoon, are believed to have been, murdered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Double Murder Tasmanian Crime Police Hunt Launceston
Police who are investigating the murder of Gordon Francombe and Harry Lawson, whose bodies were found near Ulverstone with bullet…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Men Found Dead Police Suspect Foul Play
Lying on the roadway with bullet wounds in the head, the bodies of Henry Lawson and Gordon Francombe were found near Ulverstone (Tas.) on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →House Ablaze at Marrickville Sick Woman Saved by Police
Breaking into a burning house in Silver-street, Marrickville, on Monday night, police officers rescued Mrs Eva Dawes, an elderly woman who was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Italian Sentenced. Melbourne
Antonio Barbara, 35, an Italian quarryman, was sentenced in the Criminal Court to five years' imprisonment for the [?] of…
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