Payroll Theft Arrests Two Boys Detained Geelong
Police investigating a £70 military pay roll theft at Terang on July 6, last night arrested two boys, aged 14½ and 15, on the Western District express…
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Magistrate Applies Verbal Lash to Youths "Nobody's Lives or Property Sacred" Sydney
"Nobody's lives or property are sacred with boys of your type, who adopt 'go as you please' methods of living," said Mr. Hardwick, S.M., at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Escapee Remanded Broke Away From Police Escort Melbourne
Charged with having escaped from lawful custody, Leonard Jackson, aged 23, was to-day remanded until August 18 by (the City Court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Charged with Murder Sydney
At the Central Court to-day, Robert Branch, alias Jackson, and George Allen, alias Cave, labourers, were charged with the murder of Guide…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court Tuesday, August 8, 1939 (Before Mr. I. Beavers, P.M.)
F. W. Kernaghan, charged with falling to return an expired driver's licence. pleaded guilty and was fined 46, with 56 costs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To Be Hanged for Murder
John Trevon Kelly, aged 24, motor mechanic, who was found guilty of the murder of Miss Marjorle Constance Sommerlad at Tentefield in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Allege Assault Man on Two Charges Arrested at Coreen
At the Corowa Police Court on Tuesday morning, Hetherington Martin Eddy 19, of Mulwala appeared before the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lost Dutch Souvenirs at Police Station
Some interesting souvenirs, evidently from a pen-friend in Holland, have been found and handed to the Albury police. They comprise a letter,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Men Remanded on Charge of Murder Sydney
Robert Branch, aged 31, laborer, and George Allen, aged 34, laborer, were charged at the Central Police Court to-day with murdering Guido…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Provision of Legal Aid Court's important Judgment Verdict for Woman Set Aside Sydney
An impotent ruling was given by the Chief Justice (Sir Frederick Jordan) in the Full Court to-day when Legal Aid Office had been assigned a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Company Directors Vanish Allegation Made in Court Important Documents Said to Have Been Destroyed Sydney
Allegations that a liquidator and some members of the board of directors of a company had disappeared, and that certain documents…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gaol for Two Girls Short Sentences As Punishment for "Pilfering" Melbourne
Despite strong pleas by their counsel for the imposition of fines, or suspended sentences two young women at the City Court to-day were sentenced…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Reservists to Begin Training Sydney
Two thousand police reservists will begin training next week, in ordinary police duties plus air raid and first aid Knowledge. They will not be…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Boy Leaves Hospital; Police Searching for Him Sydney
A boy who had been an inmate of Prince Henry Hospital for five weeks left without permission to-day a few hours before he was to be discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tried to Collect Account After He Had Been Dismissed Allegation Against Man in Albury Court
For having allegedly attempted to collect accounts after he had been dismissed from the service of his employer a man was fined £1 in the Albury…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Believed Youth Innocent Judge and Jury Differ Higher Court Refuses to Set Verdict Aside Sydney
"I believe the accused was innocent and should not be convicted." This portion of a report by Judge Markell who presided at the trial of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Baby's Death Woman Charged-with Murder Tamworth
A single women, aged 30, living at Attunga, near Tamworth, was arrested on Saturday night. Later she was charged at Tamworth police station…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Smash and Grab" Raid; Theft From Music Shop Melbourne
Breaking the window with a hammer, "smash and grab" thieves stole a piano accordeon valued at £22 from the music shop of William Mawson of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police—"push" Clash Batons Drawn in Fracas Two Arrests Made Melbourne
Four police constables charged a [?]chmond "push," numbering about 12, with drawn batons in the foyer of Hoyts Cinema Theatre, situated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Inspector Drowned Came From Wagga Launch Overtuned at Bar Two Companions Rescued Sydney
Police Inspector M[?] was drowned and two companions, Archibald Fowler, of kat[?]ba, and Leslie Roy Whatley, of Woy…
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