Unusual Circumstances in Suicide Murder Indicated at First Sydney
Unusual circumstances seemed at first to indicate murder, when the body of Henry Hastings Tilbrook, 51 widower, of Murwillumbah, was found on…
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Middlesex Cricketers Join Police Australian Rugby Players English Girl Farmers Hitler Inspects Defences
Top Left: Middlesex cricketers have joined the London police reserve. They are in their service equipment. Left to right: W. Wignall, G. Hart, W. Harrington, A. W. Martin (groundsman), D. Compton, T. Smith (staff),…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Sentenced to 15 Years’ Gaol to be Released Greek Club Bombing Melbourne
An order has been made under special authority by the Attorney-General (Mr. Bailey) for the release from Pen[?]ridge of Alexander Mclver, aged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Former Inspector Employed at Wangaratta Sentenced WANGARATTA
At the Wangaratta General Sessions to-day, before Judge Poster, Keith .R. Robertson, a former inspector for the Borough of Wangaratta, was found…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Pensioners Recalled Will Take Up Former Duties Melbourne
Under regulations approved yesterday by the State Executive Council about 50 police pensioners of a rank not above sergeant will be called up…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Reservists to Be Appointed in N.S.W. SYDNEY
A bill to provide for the appointment of police reservists to act as an auxiliary force in time of emergency, to the regular force was introduced in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Five Years' Gaol for Man Called a “Plausible Humbug” Melbourne
Sentencing Trevor McKenzie, aged 25, of Lang street, South Yarram, to five years' imprisonment with hard labor for receiving, Mr. Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Commissioner Can Over-ride Jury's Verdicts. Sydney
Although police officers might have been acquitted of a charge in a police courtly the Commissioner for Police still had the power to take action…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Escape From Lock-up Offender Sentenced To Nine Months Gaol
Sentences of nine months’ imprisonment in Hay gaol were imposed on Thomas Gerald McGrane (29), alias Francis. Clarke and Frank Dale, in Deniliquin Police Court yesterday on charges of illegally using a motor car and escaping from Deniliquin…
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When reference was made in the Licensing Court at Deniliquin yesterday to an application by George G. Oddy for an extension of time to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Sooled" Dog on Police
Two men, John Patrick Casey (alias Murray), and William Strawn, who stated they had come to Wangaratta to link up with the battalion garrison,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Court of Petty Sessions. Monday, October 2 Before Mr Lake J.P.
At the local Court of-Petty Sessions on Monday, several strangers to the town were arranged on various charges…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Suggestion of Closing Albury Gaol
It has been rumored in certain circles for some time past that there was a possibility of the Albury Gaol being closed, but this rumor appears to have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Remanded on Murder Charge at Wangaratta
At the Wangaratta Police Court, yesterday George Albert Gormley was charged with the murder of Alvan Archie McCallum, whose death…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Refugee Woman's Story Parted With Jewellery, She Says a Former Soldier Charged Melbourne
How a refugee woman succumbed to the story of a man who visited her flat in South Yarra, saying that he was a Defence…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Man in Albury Court After Street Accident
Following a spectacular motor lorry accident in North Albury on September 9, a man appeared in the Albury Court yesterday on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Charged Following Woman’s Death Sydney
Said to have been hospital superintendent for a sugar company in Fiji for 27 years, William Baddeley, aged 67, was charged at the Central Police…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder of Polish Princes Alleged London, October 9
The Polish Embassy confirms the murders in Poland of Prince Janusz Radziwill, who was at his castle, since occupied by the Russians; Prince Leon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Knotty Problem Sale of Cream in Victoria Albury Dairyman Charged
The question of whether an unregistered dairyman could be convicted on a charge of having sold cream in Albury, when he had delivered it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Men Now Held on Charge of Murder Wangaratta
In connection with the death of Alvan Archie McCallum, of Moyhu, following which George Albert Gormley was charged with murder…
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