Sergeant Accuses Constable No Love Lost in Murwillumbah Police Force Public Clamor for Inquiry
Truth · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 20
EVERY member of the N.S.W. police force must view with alarm a Liquor Act case in Murwillumbah in which a constable was the defendant and the information was laid by his sergeant-in-charge. The stories told by the constable…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Court Stands Between Peace and Holocaust Coal Fires Smouldering One fake Step May Mean a Huge Conflagration ! General Strike Feared High Court Evidence of Extraordinary Coincidences
Truth · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 14
FOR months Australia has been on the edge of an industrial volcano, with its grim fires smouldering, ready to burst into an inferno at any time, and set the whole country ablaze in a lava stream of chaos—and that volcano may yet explode with all the terror and tragedy that can follow in its wake. ONE easily visualised that catastrophe with its awfulness while the alert, serene David John Davies, General…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Titanic Struggle for the "Ashes" Ends in Draw Gassed Man Dead Some Hours Police Hampered
The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 1
Mystery surrounds the death of a man who was found gassed in a house in Crescent- street, Dobroyd Point, Haberfield, late yesterday. Though identification had not been established at a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Had Sentries to Help Him Bet Police Tale Against Billiard Saloon Keeper His License Refused
Truth · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 17
AN army of scouts on sentry duly keeping the police under observation while their friend, an S.P. man, carried on his illegal trade !…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Sensational Insurance Office Raid in City Conspiracy Is Now Alleged Company Manager Beckett, Broker Howden and Solicitor Gunn Charged Huge Sum Involved, Says Detective
Truth · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 16
FOLLOWING the sensational arrest of John Gunn, solicitor, at his home in Bellevue Hill, one morning last week, and of William John Beckett, company manager, at the offices of the Property Insurance Company, Ltd., in Pitt-street, City, last week, the two men appeared before Mr. Williams, S.M., at Central Court charged with conspiracy to defraud divers members of the public…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Hard Court Tennis. Carnival Comes to a Close N.S.W. Tops the Table
Truth · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 8
THE first Australian Catholic Carnival is over. N.S.W. were triumphant, and now are cock of the walk, having finished ahead of any of the other States. THE visitors had a wonderful time:…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police "Pill Boxes" Will Be Given a Trial in Darlinghurst London Idea to Increase Efficiency Chaffey Agrees
The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 2
Six police boxes with outside telephones for the use of persons wanting to communicate with the head station in the division are to be erected shortly at Darlinghurst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →: Like the Soldier, the Police Prosecutor Fights for Glory : £30 a Year More Than Man on Beat
The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 6
In an age of specialisation, the Police Department has decided that the job of the police prosecutor, both in metropolitan and suburban courts, is one demanding special training; and in future the work of the suburban…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Troops and Police Guard Royal Bride's Journey Across Europe Plot Fears Fugitives in France Homes Raided London
The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 4
In consequence of the recent attack on the Italian Crown Prince, and also the discovery of an anti- Fascist plot in Paris, says the "Daily Mail" correspondent in that city, the most stringent precautions are being taken along the railway route from Brussels…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Planter Peterson's Body Exhumed Sydney Woman and Queer Murder Case New Guinea Crown Prosecutor Drops Out in Middle of Trial Judge's Scathing Criticism
Truth · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 15
WHEN the body of Charles Albert Peterson, a New Guinea planter, was exhumed some months ago and the dead man's wife was charged with having poisoned f her husband, the trial in New Guinea became one of the strangest murder trials under British jurisdiction on record…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Saw Masked Man Running From House to Murder Sleeping Girls Cold-blooded Attempts of Would-be Killer Are Frustrated Lunatic's Foul Plan at Coogee
Truth · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 20
FOR the second time in Coogee an attempt has been made under cover of night cold-bloodedly to murder a woman by coal gas fumes. LAST WEEK a masked man was teen to run from the house of Mrs. Donoghue, in Arden-street, after the fumes of die deadly gas had filtered throughout the house…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Dirty Linen of Boardinghouse Is Washed with Enthusiasm at Balmain Court "Have a Look at My Bruise, Sir?"
Truth · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 16
A WHOLE basketful of boarding-house dirty linen was washed before Mr. Shepherd, S.M., at the Balmain Police Court, when Alena Veronica Remnant, wife of naval rating, Arthur Frank Remnant, brought a charge of assault against Alexander Thomas Brown,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Kicked Up Hullabaloo and Her Heels Sight of Lady on the Floor at Party Causes Police to Step in Music Maker on Language Charge
Truth · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 15
IN the period between Xmas and the New Year things waxed a little hectic at some of the cottages down Narrabeen way and the aftermath of one of those Yuletide bubble-overs was told at the Manly Court last week…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Young Citizens Still Ask For Probe of Police Inquiry Denies Third Degree Theory Chief Secretary Chaffey Says Girls Were Not Intimidated at investigation Rumored Transfer of Two Officers
Truth · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 17
FURTHER developments have occurred in connection with the public agitation against the methods adopted in the recent police inquiry at Young into the allegations made by two girls against Sergeant Wallace. A DEPUTATION to the Chief Secretary on the matter has apparently proved…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Sensational Developments in Coalfields' Drama Police Want Double Money Miners' Leaders Insist on Force Being Boycotted Hotel Staff Downs Tools Fifty More Men Reach Cessnock: Search for Explosives
Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 1
THERE were sudden and sensational developments in the Rothbury coal turmoil yesterday. It was announced that the N.S.W. Police Association will this week make an official request to the Government for an increased allowance for the men on duty at Rothbury mine…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"... He Doesn't Want to Marry You" to Force Young Man to Wed Foul Family Conspiracy is Alleged in Melbourne Court Young Girl's Shameful Story
Truth · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 21
A GIRL of 15, supported by her sister and mother, accusing a young man of a grave offence; he, in turn, alleging that their story was concocted to force him to marry the girl; allegations that her sister had done the same to get her husband, and a sensational denouement provided by the biting criticism of…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Miners Make Move to Prevent Police Obtaining Food Hotelkeepers Asked Not to Cook or Serve Meals One House Falls In With Plan, and "Bobbies" Go Hungry Move to Quarter Them Elsewhere
The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 3
CESSNOCK, Saturday. -- The staffs of the hotels in Cessnock have been asked, by a section of the miners to refuse to cook or serve meals to the police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girl-wife's Story of a Night of Horror "Locked in a Darlinghurst Flat" Pretty JosepHine Lyons Tells Amazing Story, Making Allegations of a Most Atrocious Crime the Accused Man Suggests Attempted Blackmail Only a Year Ago, too, Josephine Was a Central Figure in a Case in Which Her present Husband Was Charged With Abduction
Truth · Sunday 5 January 1930 · page 13
HERE IS THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY of dramatic incidents said to have marked the last 12 months of a 17-years-old child-wife's life...a story of alleged abduction early last year, and alleged attempted criminal assault two months ago ..... a story, the latter part of which will yet be told to a jury in the sordid and prosaic surroundings of a drab and cheerless Criminal Court…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Lottery Inquiry. Journalists in Court. Magistrate's Demand Refused. Capetown, Jan. 4
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 11
After the "Rand Daily Mail" had described the drawing of a lottery in a Johannesburg hotel a few weeks ago, the Minister for Justice ordered an inquiry under the Police…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Assault and Robbery Charges
The Sun · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 3
Thomas James Summers, aged 21, laborer, was committed for trial from the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of assaulting Richard S. T…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →