Detective Attacked by Prisoner in Gaol Townsville
After Acting-Detective Sergeant Vincent Qiunn had entered the gaol yard at Ingham at midday to-day in response…
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Courts & crime, 1938
2,031 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 8 of 102
Murwillumbah Police Strength Increased
Through Mr. A. E. Budd. M.L.A., the Premier (Mr. Stevens) has advised Murwillumbah Municipal Council that following the request of a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Act Swiftly 150,000 Spectators Surge Through Broken Lines SYDNEY
To cope with the crowds 2200 police were on duty in a 12 hour shift. The perfectness of the preparations was amply demonstrated when, in a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fisheries Act Breaches Tweed Heads Police Court
At Tweed Heads police Court yesterday before Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M., several cases of breaches of the Fisheries Act were dealt with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Germans Sentenced Alleged Spying In France
PARIS, Wednesday:- A military tribunal sentenced two Germans, Wilhelm Merker, and his brother-in-law, Karl Junger, to five and 10 years…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Four Boys Arrested Alleged Breaking, Entering And Stealing
SYDNEY, Thursday:- Detectives patroling Randwick yesterday saw four boys whose ages ranged from 14 to 16 sitting together on the grass on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Albury Murder Victim Was Not Girl From Boonah
IPSWICH, Thursday-- It was stated in a section of the metropolitan press to-day that the unknown girl whose dead body was found at Albury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Courting Is Hard Work Papuan Girls Insist on Murder Trials of a Lover
Courting is a strenuous business--for the men--in certain parts of Papua, in the wild hinterland of British New Guinea…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Nazis Arrested in Vienna Sequel To Police Raid on Headquarters
LONDON, Wednesday.-- "The Times" Vienna correspondent says a leading Nazi, Doctor . Taws, was arrested ostensibly on account of statements…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Speed Wanted Removal of Court Building Urbenville Request
A decision to request the Minister for Justice, Mr. L. O. Martin, to expedite the removal and re-erection at Urbenville of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boys' Escapades Land Them in Court Amazing Allegations Made
CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday:- Amazing escapades of two boys, aged 12 and 14 respectively, were recounted in the Timaru…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Justices Retiring New Dealers Will Have Majority on Court WASHINGTON
The illness of Mr. Justice Cardozo and the fact that Mr. Justice Brandeis is reaching the age of 80 is producng well-founded reports…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Nazis Acquitted of Assault Charge Sensation In Budapest
LONDON, Thursday: The correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" in Budapest says that in political circles a sensation has been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Qld. Grower Sold Bananas at a Loss Sympathy From Magistrate
"I paid £400 to go on to my plantation, and when I went to the bank this morning I found that I had not a penny left," said William…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hungarian Justice Nazis Acquitted; Socialists Sent to Gaol LONDON
A sensation has been caused in Hungarian political circles, says the Budapest correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian," by the action of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mails Stolen From K.L.M. PLANES Dutch Police Mystified
LONDON, Thursday: -- The "Daily Telegraph" correspondent at The Hague says that the disappearance of five mail bags in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sleeping Man And Wife Killed By Explosion Police Suspect Bomb Outrage
SYDNEY, Friday: -- Alfred Ernest Smith (53), secretary of the Butchers' Union at the State abattoirs at Homebush, and his wife, Mary Ann Smith (51), were killed when a terrific explosion in the front bedroom where they were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cut Own Throat After Firing Fatal Shot Police Story of Fingal Tragedy MURWILLUMBAH
Believed to be the outcome of a disagreement with his wife, extending over some months, Christopher Walker, a three-quarter-caste aborigine, is alleged to have shot a South Sea islander named William Yettica at Fingal, near Tweed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dance Hostess Remanded Theft of Jewellery and Clothing
Accused of perpetrating a confidence trick, a 23-year-old dance hostess was remanded in custody at Liverpool after bail was opposed on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Youth Accused of Murder Alleged Incidents at Dance
ADELAIDE. Sunday. -- Following an affray at Wasleys late on Saturday night, a youth was arrested and charged with the murder of…
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