Laughed at Gaol Locksmiths Handsome "Houdini" at Large Picturesque Escapee From Yatala Prison "Master Mind" of Crime Leads Police a Lively Chase
Truth · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 19
THERE'S one more mark on the trouble-scarred record of Yatala Stockade, that notorious prison a few miles from Adelaide, and there's one more feather in the cap (by now it looks like an Indian's war-bonnet) of one of the slickest operators in Australian crime. ERNEST ALBERT RICHARDS, who picked his Way out of that gaol a week ago, like…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Contempt of Court & Penalty
The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 5
Punishment for contempt of court is inflicted not from any exaggerated notion of the dignity of individuals,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All That Matters-- Our Police Know
The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 5
FOR a week detectives kept secret the fact that the identity of the victim of the Bungendore horror had been established…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Saw Police Kicked Crowd Would Not Aid
The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 2
Once again a city crowd last night looked on while police, endeavoring to make arrests, were knocked about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Shut Up!" a Lady Comes to Court
Truth · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 13
SHE had a cigarette bumper parked behind her ear and a large leather belt separated a while, though somewhat soiled, blouse from a navy skirl…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Used Razor on Woman, Say Police Miller's Point Slashing
Truth · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 15
CHARGED will, maliciously wounding Lillian Edith Hedges, and further with attempting suicide, John Thomas Gammidge, 52, fetiler, appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Serious Riot in North Police Station Dynamited Darwin
The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 1
DYNAMITE was used by a Pine Creek crowd to blow np the police station to release a prisoner, who had been arrested…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cinderella Came Into Court Modern Hunt the Slipper
Truth · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 15
A LATTER-DAY Cinderella, will, her Prince Charming who said he earned £13 to £15 a week, playing hunt-the-slipper in pursuit of a middle-aged…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Investigating Red' Activities Special Police at Work in S. Aust
The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 7
ADELAIDE, Saturday.--Police have been specially detailed to Investigate "Red" activities in this State, one detective and a plainclothes man…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Per Scuffle Not in His Line Manly Sportsman Discharged Police Witness
Truth · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 18
"I have been associated with every amateur sport in Manly for the past 15 years. During that time I was captain…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →"I Think He Is Mad" Whiddon's Idea of Vic. Police Chief
The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 4
"I THINK he is mad!" said the Director of State Lotteries (Mr. Whiddon) yesterday, in reply to the latest statement of the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blamey, Don't Blame Me! Whiddon Wild Over Vic. Police Attitude
Truth · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 14
DIRECTOR of the State Lotteries. Mr. W. H. Whiddon, is all hot under the collar. And it wasn't the weather yesterday that made him…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Jobless Men Defy the Police Seized Building Near Darwin DARWIN
Truth · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 14
SOMETHING in the nature of a minor revolution was staged yesterday by the unemployed at Pine Creek, 120 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wired Loot Away, Police Say Clever Work in Interstate Investigation BRISBANE
Truth · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 14
SYDNEY police played a prominent part in smart work to-day. which resulted in a quick return to its owner of a sum of money which the Brisbane police…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Threw Pepper in Lovers' Lair Cayenne Man Copped It Hot in Court
Truth · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 13
A shadow that slips through the blackness of night. stepping silently among the sand dunes of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Potts Point Pair Parade in Police Court Publicity Wreck of Dunbar Domesticity Follows on Alleged Wild Doings Blonde Wife Said Paper Merchant Husband Never Gave Her Penny Piece Possible Proceedings in Divorce, Says Solicitor
Truth · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 12
DUNBAR was discharged by Mr. Shepherd, S.M., conditionally upon entering into his own recognisance in £10 to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Man Who Ended the WAR Diggers Charged Like Men Possessed And Cut Path For Fateful Raid Lieutenant Who Found Plan of Hindenburg Line !
The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 31
After 13 years of patrolling the streets as a police sergeant, the Man Who Ended the War has been discovered. He is Lieutenant E. J. Rollings, M.C. (with bar),…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →FLASHED £500 in Purse to Impress Court Kate Leigh and Her Bail Consorting Charge
Truth · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 18
THREE times was the name of "Kate Barry !" called at the Central Police Court when she appeared on a contorting charge,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Windsor Constable Convicted in Theft Case Betrayed His Position of Trust to Sell Some Stolen Leather Defence Alleged He Was "Pursued With Venom by Brother Officers " Young Women Weep After Long Legal Battle
Truth · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 16
IN what was possibly a unique setting in the history of New South Wales police court procedure, Constable Walter Stanley Hitchcock, of Windsor, one night during the week, was found guilty of theft. HE had, the magistrate said, betrayed a position of trust, and the offence was a grave one. And Mr. Studdert said: "Because he is a police officer, he was pursued with venom by his brother officers. . . ."…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Wife Said Wireless Woman Tuned In On Hubby Pretty Mrs. Brandon Broadcasts Tale About the Tatton Girl Magistrate Macdougal Listens In, But Is Baffled by Barney Between Randwick Belles Dark-Eyed Sybil Denies All Allegations
Truth · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 17
RAPID-FIRE allegations that embraced everything from husband-stealing to sly-grog selling, and took in bad and abusive language and petticoat-tearing for good measure, sky-rocketed from a legal battle waged between two Randwick Women at the Central Summons Court last Week. AND a magistrate confessed that it had him beaten! He dismissed all the charges…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →