Leeton Relief Committee Appeals for Help Investigated Genuine Cases Assisted by Police
ON Friday night last a meeting of the Leeton Relief Committee was held in the Shire Chambers, the president, Mr. R. Struck,…
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To Educate Cyclists In Traffic Laws Local Road Safety Council Recommends Police Action
IN order to actively co-operate with the Minister far Transport's campaign to educate cyclists, a general meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Years' Gaol Man Used Broken Glass As Weapon Perth
Hugh Joseph Henry Brady, who was disembarked from an A.I.F. convoy at Fremantle last month, was to-day convicted of assault on Francis…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Items of News Wagga Police Ball
Sergeant Hill stated yesterday that he had received a donation from an anonymous well-wisher of £10 for the police ball, to be held on May 1. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£60,000 Damage Swagman Sent to Gaol for Starting Fire Melbourne
Alleged to have caused a fire which swept 500,000 acres of country from Mortlake to Camperdown, causing £60,000 worth of damage, James…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Strikers Receive Last Pay Cheques Police Patrol Non-union Mines NEWCASTLE
Mine workers who are on strike on the northern fields to-day received their last fortnightly pay. The men are expected to move to the seaside,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court (Today.) Before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M. Milk Case
Wathen R. Purton and Muriel Winchester were charged with selling adulterated milk. Mr. H. G. Budge. Municipal Council…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder and Suicide Bathurst
The corner (Mr. Bromhead) to-day found that Keith Joseph Kessey. aged 24 years, had murdered Miss Alien Artery, aged 18 years, and then shot…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Shot Arrest on Murder Charge Sydney
"I'm shot!" gasped Francis Gordot Chambers, aged 72 years, yesterday, as two shots rang out on a West Pennant Hills orchard. Then he fell dead…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Young Woman on Murder Charge Arrested at Darlington Point . Sequel to Death of Baby
Detective Sergeant Ramus and Constable Mills, of Wagga, Plainclothes Constable Morley. of Griffith, and Constable Hoyer, of Darlington Point,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death of Chinaman Two Men Charged Brisbane
The hearing was begun at the Cloncurry police court to-day of the case in which William Frederick Clarke, 40, laborer, and John Andrew…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Intent to Murder Alleged Sydney
On a charge of having shot at George White with intent to murder him, Edward Riley Sexton, aged 59 years, painter, was remanded to March 29 at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wagga Police Court Monday, March 18, 1940 (Before Mr. J. A. Harris. P.m.) Offensive Behavior
Roy Stanley Clancy and David Peter Kelleher were each charged on two counts of offensive behavior and with having been found on licensed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District Court Verdict for £26
At the Wagga District Court yesterday Mrs. Susan Hannah Pearce claimed an amount of £26 from the executors of the Estate of Edward James…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Leeton GaolBreaker Recaptured In Sydney Last Night Other Still at Large
LAST night Harold Furner (23) one of the two prisoners who escaped from Leeton lock-up in the early morning of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Torn Envelope Led to Mother's Arrest Charged With Murdering Infant Son Decomposed Body in Griffith Canal
YESTERDAY Mary Turner (21) an unmarried woman of aboriginal origin appeared before Mr. C. Hall, J. P., in the Griffith police court, charged with feloniously and maliciously murdering Douglas Ross Turner, a male infant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Second Attempt at Theft Failed Bare-faced Robbery in Leeton Service Station Notes Wrapped in Greasy Rag
HEARTENED by their success in "lifting" a £1 note from the till of a Leeton service station while the youthful attendant was serving a customer, two men hastened to have a "beano" on their ill-gotten gains on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Young Woman on Murder Charge Arrested at Darlington Point Sequel to Death of Baby
Detective Sergeant Ramus and Constable Mills, of Wagga, Plainclothes Constable Motley, of Griffith, and Constable Hoyer, of Darlington…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New District Court Date First Sitting After Re-establishment
The first sitting of the re-established District Court at Leeton is to be held on Wednesday May 22, and not on Tuesday April 2, at previously…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder Allegation Sydney
"Leslie Ernest Kennedy was something like the man who fired a shot at Alexander Robert Henry Miller during an argument at Covent Garden…
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