Broke Arm When "Bumped" Schoolboy Joke Echo in Court
A boy whose arm was fractured after he was "bumped" by schoolfellows sued the Rev. H. J. Kerridge, headmaster and proprietor of a…
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Startling Story at Central Woman Tells Police How She Earned Living "Ill-repute"
"IT is a most unusual case," said Mr. Flynn, S.M., at Central Court yesterday, "and: if what the police claim is true, this woman…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Park Murders Big Police Check Where Were You on December 14? Ask 1000 Men
The biggest task ever undertaken by officers of the Criminal Investigation Branch is to be attempted by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Park Monster May Have Got Through Net the Possibility Is Being Discussed by the Police Two Theories
THE possibility of the slayer of Bessie O'Connor having slipped through the police cordon to the freedom of the outside world is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Court Has Its Ladies' Day, Also Not Confined Solely to Randwick Racecourse Pack 'Em In
WOMEN to the right of them, women to the left of them, women all round them-- No, this is not a Mormon's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Incendiarism Caused Blaze at Cessnock Three Separate Fires Were Lit in Cottage Discoveries Police Sergeant Tells Coroner What He Found Cessnock
SIGNS of three fires were found by Sgt. R. Small, according to his evidence at a coronial inquiry to-day, when…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Vast Millions in Chancery Often Claimed British Court Officials Receive Numerous Queries Wily Con Men Dreaming of Colossal Fortunes to Be Picked Up
DURING the year just closed, many gullible persons, who visualise huge fortunes locked up in Chancery in England,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Free Hand to Be Given to Police Government Proposes to Transfer Entire Food Relief Control to the Constabulary Inspection Of Private Homes Looms Disquiet In Service 200 May Be Sacked Social Service Fund Raid
THE Stevens Government is going from blunder to blunder in the administration of unemployment food relief. The latest drastic proposal is to withdraw the control of food relief in the Metropolitan, Newcastle, Maitland and South Coast areas from the Department of Labor and Industry and to transfer it to the Police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Courts. Theft of Horse
At the Parramatta Police Court yesterday, Arthur William Emmett O'Regan, of Punchbowl, pleaded not guilty to a charge of horse stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Man Charged With Murder May Miller's Death Detained Early in Morning Before Court Next
AT 3.30 p.m. to-day, Eric Roland Craig, 26, salesman, was charged that at Waverley, on December 9, 1932, he feloniously and maliciously murdered Iris Marriott, also known as May Miller…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sentenced to Seven Minutes' Gaol Man Who Had Spent a Night in Cells
Seven minutes' gaol was the alternative to a fine of 5. Imposed on George Harrison (39), yesterday, at Central Court, on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Theft of Wheat. Inverell
At the Police Court E. V. Foster was charged with having in his possession two and a half bags of wheat, repsonably suspected of having been stolen. The police evidence was that…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Park Murder. Man Detained
Early this morning detectives surrounded a house in Paddington, awakened a man, and took him to the Detective Office, where he was detained and questioned in connection with…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Tongan Choir at Long Bay Gaol
Passengers travelling by tram car past the Long Bay Penitentiary see grey, forbidding walls and towers, while a touch of grim reality is added…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →New Police District
Bankstown police district has undergone a change, and is now under control of No. 13 division, with headquarters at Campsie. Inspector Davis, has been removed from…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →District Court
Before the Deputy Registrar.—At 10.15 a.m.: Cottingham v Carthew. At 10.30 a.m.: Doyle v The Transport Commissioners of New South Wales, At 10.30 a.m.: same v same…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Seven Minutes in Gaol Laborer Is Given Light Sentence
A sentence of seven minutes' imprisonment was imposed on George Harrison 39, laborer, by Mr. Williams, S. X., at Central Court…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Late News Indians Fight on in Gaol Calcutta
Even in gaol faction-fighting continues in India. A free fight broke out in prison at Peshawur between confinees from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tribe Law Murder Natives Psychology Strange Customs
WHY did a tribe of natives in the wilds of the hinterland of Wewak, New Britain, decide to murder the next white recruiter who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prison Tips in the West Gaol Paper Caters for Inmates
The New South Wales gaol publication, the "Compendium," does not cater for punters. The Fremantle prison paper…
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