Murder Charge Man Stabbed with Carving Knife Melbourne
Finding that Frederick Stringer, aged 42 years, a wharf laborer, had been fatally stabbed with a carving knife on December 21 by James…
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1,292 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 65
Licensee on Police Tactics (To the Editor)
Sir.—On New Year'B Eve, December 31, 1939, the largest industrial upheaval in the history of Leeton occurred, exactly. 760 people refusing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ironical Cheers for Narandera Police Raided Leeton Hotels While Strike in Progress Many Names Taken; Licensee Objects to Certain Actions
IRONICAL cheers and boos were given in Pine Avenue for a police "flying squad" from Narandera, headed by Inspector Willis, when they drove away on New Year's Eve after adding to the general excitement in the town by raiding both the Hotel Leeton and Wade Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Tumut Business Men Granted Pistol Licenses to Safeguard Themselves Against Attacks When in Custody Large Sums of Money Police Over-ruled
At the Tumut Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M., Jack Frederick Baker appealed against the refusal of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Racketeer Goes to Gaol U.s. "Enemy No. 1"
Louis Lepke Buchalter, who was No. I American racketeer reached the end of a fabulous career on Wednesday In the Federal Court at New York…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Irish Terrorists Ulster's Precautions Armed Police on Frontier ULSTER
Five thousand special constables, each with a rifle and a revolver, were placed along the frontier after the statement In the Dall Elreann on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court (Today.) Before Mr. F.Grugeon, P.M. Sentenced to Six Months
Robert Burns, 58, a stranger, with a long list of previous convictions, was sentenced to six months hard labor on a charge of stealing goods to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Theft of Lottery Winnings Sydney
Police in Australia and New Zealand are searching for a young woman against whom a warrant has been issued by her father, charging her with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disturbance in City Soldier Alleges Assault Sydney
Alleging that he had been assaulted while in the cafe, a member of the 2nd A.I.P. marched with 29 others from a club to the entrance of a fashionable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Charges Daughter Theft of £5000 Alleged Lottery Winnings Sydney
Police in Australia and New Zealand are searching for a young woman against whom a warrant has been issued by her father, charging her with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →True Stories of French Secret Police
Louis Lemoine, famous French detective, and his colleague, Captain de Beck, are seeking the murderer of a famous scientist, slain with his own poison gas. Lemoine finds a gas mask used by the killer, learns that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Delay in Supreme Court Actions Sydney
It transpired to day that no actions, Instituted since the opening of the war in September, have yet been heard in the Supreme Court. It is understood…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court Drunk
Ernest Albert Kemp (60), was charged with being found drunk in Audley Street. He was fined 15/, in default two days' hard labour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nazi Sends Mother to Gaol
A young Nazi arrested his mother for uttering derogatory remarks about Hitler. His action was described in an incident quoted in a broadcast to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wagga Police Court Monday, December 8, 1940 (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.m.) Traffic Prosecutions
At the Wagga Police Court yesterday before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M., four cyclists, including two girls, were fined for having ridden bicycles without…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yenda Club Gets Liquor Back After Held for Months by Police
LIQUOR seized by Griffith police from the Yenda Diggers' Club, as the result of a raid conducted in May, 1939, Is about to be handed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Radio Announcer Charged Alleged Conspiracy to Cut Wires Melbourne
Harry William Solomons, aged 27 years. radio announcer, was further remanded to-day on a charge of conspiring with certain persons to cut…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Second A.i.f. Deserter Breaks Gaol at Bethungra
Cootamundra and Junee police have been engaged in a man-hunt in the Bethungra hills since early last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Alleged Imp0ster Arrested By Cootamundra Police
A man named Murray, or Lyons, who represented himself, as a telephone lines inspector and. also main roads inspector to residents of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murder Charge Brisbane
Edwin Roy Weldon, aged 25 years, laborer, was committed for trial at the Theodore Police Court to-day on a charge of murdering Alice Elsie Dyer…
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