The Police and Politics
The policemen who are keeping order on the coalfields may, for aught the people know to the contrary, be for or against the miners in this…
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Intent to Murder Charges Shooting at Kensington
The Wounding of two persons in a house at Kensington on Wednesday night was mentioned at Central Police Court yesterday. when Bernard James…
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AMELIA FLANAGAN, 42, was arrested this afternoon on a charge of the murder of her husband, Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Funeral of Police Inspector Robinson
The funeral of the late Inspector James H. Robinson took place yesterday at the North Sydney Cemetery. Inspector Robinson died on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Praised Letter From North
Mr. Bavin received a letter to-day from a Cessnock business man, in which the latter commended the police for "making life worth living on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Scullin's Military and Bavin's Police
One of the first administration acts by the Scullin Government when it came into power was to formally sack the Australian Army. The militants in the Labour Councils and the Trades Halls have for years benn advocating the abolition of anything in the form of an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Theft From Alms Box. Vatican City's First Criminal. LONDON, Jan. 29
A man named Giuseppe Paolls, who was caught extracting coins from the alms box at St. Peter's with a piece of whalebone smeared with birdlime, was the first offender tried…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Love Drives Wife to Gaol Arrest Ends Effort to Help Husband
Intensely human and pathetic is the story that lies behind the arrest, early yesterday morning,.. of a woman on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wife Screams Her Innocence Murder Charge Over Husband's Death
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Screaming and protesting her innocence, Mrs. Amelia Alice Flanagan (42), of Wagant, near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Talk It Over," Said the Magistrate Advice to Principals of a Backyard Squabble
ON'T take your backyard squabbles to court. Magistrates give this advice every…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Show Loathing for Police BRANXTON, Jan 26
Two officials of New Greta miners’ lodge have been arrested on a charge of in[?]midating the wife of a Greta policeman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Based Plea on Old Statute Consorting Act Novel Defence by Counsel Women Charged
IN submitting that the Court had no jurisdiction to convict under the Consorting Act, Mr. B. T. Heavener cited a law passed in 1829, during the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accountant Lost Police and Civilians Search Gonlburn Districts
GOULBURN, Thursday.--What has happened to Thomas J. Crossley, accountant of a local newspaper, who left his office on Monday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Net 10 in 'Trawl' Raids in Suburbs
COVERING a wide area In the suburbs last night, the police net closed on 10 men and youths wanted on duties of attempted robbery…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the Courts To-day Supreme Court
IN DIVORCE.--(Before Mr. Acting-Justice Maxwell.) In No. 1 Jury Court. At 10.20 Cause: Hicks v. Hicks (part-heard) Motion Finn v. Finn, for remission of issues…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Federal Police New Control? Matter for Cabinet Canberra
AMONG the subjects to be discussed by Cabinet during the present series of meetings is a proposal by the Home Affairs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Charge of Murder. Preferred Against Woman. Sequel to Death of Husband. Melbourne
The police at Ouyen to-day arrested Amelia Alice Flanagan, 40, on a charge of having murdered her husband, Thomas Flanagan, at Ouyen on December 19…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Rafferty’s Rules for Police Who Was In the Waterhole?
The police have suffered heavily at the hands of the I.C.W.P.A counsel in this week’s trials at West Maitland. Giving evidence against eleven…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Terror on Coalfields Mackay’s Flying Squad at “Work”
Police atrocities throughout the coalfield are cont[?]uing.Four times in nine days police have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Joe Shelley, Communist Organiser, Gaoled Revolutionary Lead in Coal Fight Refused to be Bound Over “Menace”, Says Magistrate
Joe Shelley, member of the central committee of the Communist Party, was sentenced at West Maitland last week to two months’ hard labor on a charge of inciting to murder. Refusing to enter into a bond to be of “good behavior” for…
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