Lieut.-Colonel Can Now be Arrested Army Minister Acts Explanation by Mr. Street What the Magistrate Said Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 January 1940 · page 1
Instructions to the police not to execute the warrant for the arrest of Lieutenant-Colonel John Wesley Mitchell, of the 2nd A.I.F., have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Widow’s Plea for Children Rejected Sent to Gaol Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 6
Sentenced to two months’ hard labor on two charges of stealing. Esther Allison, aged 34, a widow, pleaded not to be separated from her children when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Recognition of Police Inspector’s Services at Albury
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 2
Although Inspector Gray, who is about to retire from the police force after many years’ service, has only been in Albury a comparatively short…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Said Woman Was Lucky “Husband’s Murder Attempt” Shot Himself with a Revolver Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 3
“In the [?] Mrs. Small appears to have been very [?] net to have lost her life,“ commented the City Coroner (Mr. Oram)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mock Court in City; Lord Mayor “Fined” £25 MELBOURNE
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 2
On a lorry in front of the Town Hall to-day, George Wallace, the comedian, held a meek court, where he fined prominent citizens who had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shooting Case Recalled Man Released After 25 Years in Gaol
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 1
Samuel Freeman, aged 63, will be released from Parramatta Gaol this month after 25 years' imprisonment. Medical reports state that Freeman…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Doctor’s View Rejected by Magistrate Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 January 1940 · page 8
The view that a sentence would be the best means of correcting a woman who had pleaded guilty to 24 charges of obtaining goods by false pretences,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stole During Black-out Youth Sentenced to Death Five Times London. January 25
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 January 1940 · page 6
The Copenhagen correspondent of “The Times” says that a special court in Nuremberg sentenced to death a youth aged 19 five times for having…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldier, Who Died, Lurched Against Bayonet Belief of the Police Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 January 1940 · page 4
Detectives are satisfied that Private Donald Kirk Campbell, aged 28, of the [?] received the bayonet wound from received he died last night as the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“PAID £2 a Week to Overseer” Man’s Court Allegations MELBOURNE
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 January 1940 · page 8
An allegation that he paid the defendant £2 when he started the [?]ob and £[?] a week afterwards, was made by [?] of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Charged with Spying for Germany Berne, January 27
Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 January 1940 · page 6
A retired member of the Swiss Army, Colonel A. Fonjaliaz, and an unnamed foreigner have been arrested and charged with spying on behalf…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Taking Liquor Into Halls Legality Of Regulation Doubled Magistrate’s View
The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 2
An opinion that regulation 107 (A) of the Theatres and Public Halls Act, which prohibits the taking of intoxicating liquor into a public hail, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Charged With Pretending to be Second A.L.F. Officer
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 2
Alleged to have been wearing the uniform of a captain of the Second A.I.F. when arrested, a man was charged before the Wagga police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Larceny As a Bailee Albury Resident for Trial Alleged Theft of Car
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 3
On a charge of larceny as a bailee of a motor car, valued at £250, John Francis Herbert Parsons, aged 28, architect, of Albury, was committed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bogus £5 Notes Believed More Than 200 Have Been Issued Warning, Issued by Police
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 3
Sydney, police have issued a warping to all other States against, the circulation of counterfelt £5 notes. Mora than 200 of those notes were [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COUNTERFEIT £5 NOTES Allegations in Court 11 Men and a Woman Remanded Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 2
Arising out of the alleged distribution of forged £5 Commonwealth Bank notes in the metropolitan area on Saturday, 11 men…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Assault Boats for the Army Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 6
The Minister for Supply and Development (Sir Frederick Stewart) announced to-day that Chapman Engineering Co. had been given a contract…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FINED £50. and Also Sent to Gaol Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 6
In addition to living fined £50, Daniel Kerry, aged 25. was at the Central Police Court to-day [?] to 12 months’ imprisonment fur having…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District Police Give Quick Service
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 2
The story of Chiltern and Barnawartha police’s speedy co-operation in the return of a Chiltern resident’s stolen bicycle was told to Messrs. C…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Magistrate to Hold Inquiry Into Junee Boy’s Death Sydney. Tuesday
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 6
Mr. J. Sea[?] S.M. was to-day appointed by the Hospitals Commission to con[?] inquiry beginning on Wednesday at Junee into the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →