Death of Constable Alleged Assault Wellington (N.Z.)
Allegedly assaulted by a drunken prisoner at the police station at Christchurch on Xmas Day, Constable James Butler died of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1938
645 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 1 of 33
Police Dogs Establishment of Dog Stations Sydney
So successful has the training of police dogs become in this State that the Police Department is now considering the establishing of dog…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Truck Murder Inquest Proceeding Melbourne
At the inquest concerning the death of John Thomas Demsey, Plainclothes Constable Swingler gave evidence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Demsey Murder Evidence at Inquest Constable's Story Melbourne
At the inquest concerning the death of John Thomas Demsey, Plain Clothes Constable Swingler gave evidence of the discovery on November 29 of two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prisoners Attempt To Escape From Dubbo Gaol. Warder Locked in Cell. Fellow Prisoners Quell Uprising
A daring attempt to escape from Dubbo gaol was made on Sunday afternoon when a prisoner named Coulter struck a warder on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Murder Melbourne, Friday night
At the conclusion of the inquest in to the death of Arthur Kingsley Taplin (23), of Sydney, who was fatally shot in an hotel bar at Melbourne on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Demsey Murder What Pensioner Heard Melbourne, Friday night
Giving evidence at the inquest on John Thomas Demsey (39), truck driver, Arthur John Turwell, pensioner, of North Melbourne, said that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Women Police Striking Record
A report shortly to be presented to the Chief-Secretary, by Sergeant Lillian Armfield, chief of women police, will reveal that in 1937 an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Theft in Bank Employee Loses £90 Sydney
An employee of the Mutual Life end Citizens' Assurance Company Ltd. left a book containing £90 in bank notes on the counter of the head office of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Months' Gaol Stole from Car Thief Punished
For having stolen a lady's handbag from a oar in Talbragar Street on Saturday, January 8, Victor J. Hogan was sent to gaol for four…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attack on Police Shanghai
In reply to the protest over the attack of British police, the Japanese army spokesman declared that Sergt. Turner, who had complained of being…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Murder Coroner's Finding Unknown Slayer Comment About Roberts Newcastle
That Dorothy May Everett had been murdered by some person or persons unknown, was the finding of the Coroner at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Attacked by Wild Boar Son of Police Magistrate
Mr. Gordon Cookson, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Cookson, of Darling Street, Dubbo, is in the Dubbo District Hospital as a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wellington Police Court Monday, January 10th
The following cases were dealt with before Mr. C. Pickup, P.M., at the Wellington Police Court on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Demsey Murder Four Men Committed
Matthew Francis O'Keefe (37), Roy McFarlane (32), William Grahnme (30), and Harold Reeve (37) have been committed for trial on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Dogs Distribution All Over the State
The Police Department is now evolving a scheme for the employment of specially trained dogs throughout New South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Officers To Be Re-instated Sydney
Det. Sergt. Dimmock, Det.-Const. Low and Det.-Const. Tyler, who were dismissed from the police force following a successful…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Killed Boy Police Seek Car Driver Melbourne
The police are searching for the driver of a car which killed Max Stillman (16) near Queenscliff last night. The car is alleged to have failed to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Manslaughter Charge Follows Police Chief's Death Perth
The Coroner committed Mrs. Margaret Louise Dunlop, an elderly woman, for trial on a charge of having unlawfully killed Stanley Russell Lewis, chief…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest Telegrams Inter-state News Police Re-instated. Sydney
Three detectives, Dimmock, Law and Tyler, who were dismissed from the Police Force following the court Verdict against them will…
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