"Peace" Police Waste of Money Mahony Seeks Light Melbourne
In Committee of Ways and Means, Mr. Mahony (New South Wales) asked the Prime Minister what just[?]cation there was for the…
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Police Want Handcuffs New Order Resented Risking Danger What the Men Fear
"THE proposal of the Commissioner of Police to dective the police of handcuffs is a retrograde step which, if persisted in,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Strong-arm" of Yankee Police Not for Sydney Handcuffs Dispute Fiat Is Resented
THE PROPOSAL to deprive the police of handcuffs has caused a stir in the force, and Mr. Fortescue, general secretary of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Den of Infamy Police Make Timely Raid Woman Sent to Gaol
REGULAR police raids on disorderly Sydney houses have been long delayed in the past. Lately the Darlinghurst police…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Death in the Food Grim Tragedy Shocks Little South Australian Town Farmer's Fiancee Poisoned Housekeeper Charged With Murder
STRYCHNINE detected in the internal organs of Miss Rita Annanetta Ranke, who died at Bute on Saturday evening, hat led to the arrest by Detectives Slade and Copp of Hannah Ollie Commons on a charge of murder…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Seek Relatives
Sergeant Harris, of Regent-street is trying to locate the relatives of Edward Dalton, aged 45, a returned soldier, late of the 34the Battalion, A.I.F.,…
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THE practice of detectives in cross-examining an accused person at the Detective Office prior to an arrest, was roundly condemned by both Messrs. Windeyer and Mack, K.C.'s, during the hearing of the case against Fontaine and…
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The death of Enrico Tos[?]lli, the composer, in a hospital at Florence, recalls tho tragedy of Princess Louise, the divorced wife of the King of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Abolishing Handcuffs Police Force Opposes Proposal
WHEN a farmer goes to catch a fractious horse he takes a rope with him. So it is that when a policeman sets out to arrest an unruly law-breaker he must have his handcuffs. Commissioner James Mitchell's…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Refuse Test And Lose a Case
To call the bluff of the police, and win, was the feat accomplished by an Adelaide motorist, according to the following report from a local paper:…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →From Despair to Tranquillity Henry Tacke's Days In Pentridge Gaol Friends Rally to Broken Man
EVER since the story behind the shooting of Mrs. Rachael Currell, at Mary-street, St. Kilda, on the night of December 10, was first told exclusively in "Truth," there has been a remarkable manifestation of public sympathy for Henry Tacke, the self-confessed slayer, throughout Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →In Other Words—chucked Out Dance Hall Lessee Convicted of Assault Upon Would-be Devotee of Terpsichore
PEOPLE who can remember the old vaudevile ditty, in which the singer recounts how he fared when be went to the Lord Mayor's Banquet, find an intense interest in the subject of getting chucked out of places…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"Tich" Brett Held by Police Queensland Crook Arrested at Randwick Man with Long Record of Acquittals
THE man who is known in Queensland as the "Modern Buffalo Bill" was arrested at Randwick on Thursday night last by Detective Henderson, of that State, and Sydney detectives. His name is George Brett, but he is more commonly known as "Tich," and he was wanted for absconding from his bail in Brisbane, where there was a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Raids. Dependants in Court
As a sequel to the raids carried out by the police on Friday night, l8 seamen and four Chinese appeared before Mr. Camphin, S.M., at the Central Police Court on Saturday…
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Sir,--As a citizen I regret the evidence of maudlin sympathy contained in the suggestion that handcuffs, which have been used by the police for many…
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Interviewed on Saturday regarding the protest made by the police in New South Wales through their association secrotary against the proposed abolition of handcuffs, the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Offered His Blood Youth Charged with Shooting Father Melbourne
A. J. Stirk, an attendant at Melbourne Hospital, gave a pint of his blood for transfusion to the veins of Benjamin Gahan on Friday night…
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"In connection with the proposal to take handcuffs from the police. It may be safely asserted that if the police thought them an unnecessary burden…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Raid. Seizure of Liquor. Hobart
A carefully-planned raid was carried out by the police at a few minutes to midnight on Saturday on the Continental, a fashionable cafe and dancing saloon. A quantity of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Condominion Court President in Sydney
An interesting figure, in the person of Count de Buena Esperanza, president of the Joint Court of the New Hebrides since 1910, returned to…
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