Items of News Good Work by City Police
Yesterday morning Prahran police recovered a motor cycle stolen from outside Hoyts Albury Th[?]tre on the previous evening. The owner Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Courts & crime, 1941
833 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 42
Stealing Charge Hotly Resented Sydney
Waterside workers were defended against the accusation of pilfering by the union's general secretary Mr. Heal[?] to-day. He said that such…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Siege of Bardia Preparations for Final Assault LONDON
It is authoritatively stated in military circles in London, that while there is no particular reason for thinking Bardia will fall or the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Station Murder Porter Battered with Staff Hobart
Between 1258 and i a.m. to-day Eric Boss Bobinson, aged SB, relieving porter, was murdered at Moonah railway station by a thief who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Assault on Bardia in Progress A Terrific Bombardment Gaps Torn in Barbed Wire Italians Admit The Attack Raids Becoming More Daring London, January 2
Reports received in London from several reliable quarters indicate that the British assault on Bardia has begun after careful preparations extending over 15 days. It is believed that the intense preparatory barrage by British artillery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Worn Tyres; Albury Police Warnings
Danger of worn tyres on motor vehicles was stressed yesterday by Albury police who said that names of a number of motorists had been taken…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brilliant Assault Story of Australian Attack CAIRO, January 4
“I have lust left General Sir Archibald Wavell and the Commander-in-Chief of the R.A.F. in the Middle East (Air Marshall Sir Cyril…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Fail to [?]Ind Murderer Sydney
A reward of £1000 was to-day offered to any person giving information leading to the apprehension and conviction of the person or persons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gaoled on Stealing Charge
Pleading guilty in Albury police court yesterday to a charge of stealing and a charge of illegally using a motor car, the property of Graham…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Young Man Charged Sydney
A men, aged 25, was charged this afternoon with inflicting grievous bodily harm on Alfred Ward, aged 26. at Pantene on Saturday night. Ward…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court Monday, January 6, 1941 . (Before Mr. I. Beavers, P.M.)
Gordon Hall, Mrs. Mary Jane Skehan and Mrs. A. A. Aylward, were each fined 10- with 8- court costs for having failed to register dogs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Contempt of Court
When a defendant appeared m Balranald Police Court to answer a summons for removing 262 pine poles from land, Mr T. A. Doolan, P M, declined…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Clears Captain Melbourne
Captain Ignatius Lawrence Lloyd, master of the interstate motor vessel which collided with the minesweeper H.M.A.S. Goorangai inside Port Phillip…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gaol for Youths Who Crashed Truck Sydney
Three youths were sentenced to three months' imprisonment each at the City court to-day for having illegally used a truck, in which they…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →15 Years' Gaol Instead of Death Melbourne
The State Executive Council to-day considered the case of William John Patrick Normuyle, aged 28, a soldier, of Caulfield, who had been sentenced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Youth Charged with Abduction Melbourne
A constable on duly on Princes Bridge was told by two boys to-night that their six-year-old sister had been abducted by a man on a bicycle. They…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dog Day at Wentworth Court!
Last sitting of the Wentworth Police Court was a very busy one. The police had been seeking the unregistered dog with much…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Licensing Court Thursday, January 9
In the Licensing Court at Deniliquin this morning, the licence of Tattersall's Hotel was transferred from George Clyde Oddy to Norman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Women Police for Sydney Sydney
State Cabinet decided to-day to increase Sydney’s women police from eight to 14. The new recruits will receive £375 a year. The women…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →World of Women Tennis—not a Ladies' Game in 1874 Ups and Downs of Feminine Court Wear
Back in 1874 a critic of the game of lawn tennis, which at the time was coming into its own, said: "I do not think any lady can, or ever will be able to play the game, as it is very hard work for a man, and…
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