OVER 300 POLICE Control Sunday's Crowds Careful Preparation Public Cooperation Desired
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 8
Three-hundred policemen and five inspectors, divided into four groups, will control the big crowds expected at the Eucharistic Congress procession on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hitler Stampedes Austrians Into Political Surrender Pro-Nazi Cabinet Nazi Sympathiser to Control the Police Vienna
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 7
By means of threats, Hitler appears to have scored a re-sounding victory in Austria where the personnel of the re-constructed Cabinet weighs heavily in favor of the Nazis. A German demonstration of armed force in the guise of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bombing 'Planes Use for Police Purposes British Ban Sought Limit Only by Pact, Says Prime Minister (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, February 14
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 10
The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) was asked in the House of Commons to-day to give an assurance, as an example to other nations, that the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Demsey Murder Trial Melbourne
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 1
Jurors empanelled in the Demsey murder trial, which will begin in the Criminal Court on Monday, may be absent from their homes for a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court Wednesday, February 16 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Remanded
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 14
A remand to February 21 was granted in the cases in which Thomas Quainne, 55, labourer, was charged with having stolen at Mayfield, on February 15, a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Slept at Police Station
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 1
Samuel Walls, 45, laborer, who made his 120th appearance at the Newcastle Police Court to-day, on a charge of drunkenness was discharged by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Case of Seaman in N.z. Gaol Early Release Sought
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 9
The Northern district members of Parliament have written to the Newcastle Labor Council, stating that they have asked the New Zealand Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Labourer Acquitted Alleged Assault in Hotel Bar Jury Stopped Case Sydney
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 5
John Joseph Finnie, 32, a labourer, was acquitted at the Quarter Sessions to-day on a charge of having assaulted Gerald Vincent Patrick Reilty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →1000 PRISONERS "Sit-down" Strike in U.S. Gaol. CONCORD, (Mass.), February 15
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 11
Following an unsuccessful attempt by 300 to escape 1000 prisoners at the Concern Reformatory started a "sit-down" strike refusing to leave their cells…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Mussolini Insulted" Prelude to Assault on Italian Cruiser Taxi-driver Hit on Head Melbourne
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 15
Otlavid Frigo Orlando, an Italian taxi-driver reported to the police last night that a sailor aboard the Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli and struck him…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Trawler Blamed by Court Collision with Liner at Sea
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 10
Responsibility for the collision between the passenger liner Wanganella and the steamer trawler Durraween off the south coast of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Japanese Ship Master and Crew in Court SINGAPORE, February 16
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 11
The master and eight of the crew of the Japanese ship Anyo, Maru[?] were charged at the Marine Court at Singapore to-day with having left the harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Collided in Mist Wanganella and Trawler Marine Court Inquiry Sydney
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 5
The collision between the interstate passenger vessel Wanganella and the trawler Durraween off Montague Island early on December 28 was the subject of a Marine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Precarious Finances of "Labor Daily" Lang's Plea to Court Dispute Is Deferred Sydney
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 9
Statements that the financial position of The Labor Daily Ltd, was precarious, and that the company had only been kept going…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court Thursday, February 17 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Theft of Petrol
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 14
William Leopold Dundas, 22, labourer, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen, at Newcastle, on January 19, 30 gallons of petrol, valued at £2/11/3, the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Angry Crowd Assault on Italian Cruiser Melbourne Protest Police Prevent Trouble MELBOURNE
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 7
Thorough preparations by police to-night forestalled demonstrators who had indicated their intention of holding a meeting of protest…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pacific Highway Accident Builder Charged
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 7
Further evidence was heard at the Newcastle Police Court today in the case in which John Francis McCloy (42), builder, was charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Open Hearth v. POLICE
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 20
The B.H.P. open hearth team defeated the Police at Broadmeadow yesterday afternoon, by 41 runs. The open hearth team scored 124 and the police 83 Best…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Prisoner Pleads for Leniency May Go Mad in Gaol Sydney
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 7
"I can't go through with it. I could not stand any more—I'd go mad. I'd rather hang myself." declared Albert Westerman (42), sobbing bitterly before…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Police Celebrations and Earlier Years
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 5
The Minister-in-charge of the 150th anniversary celebrations (Mr. J. M. Dunningham), writes— Now that the first intensive period of…
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