Police Task in Mine Mystery Melbourne
Detectives investigating the mineshaft mystery now realise that their task is hopeless unless they can discover the name of the victim or find…
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8,720 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 250
Attacks on Jap. Premier Dictatorship By The Army Charged Diet Shock Tokio
AT an emergency meeting of the Japanese Cabinet, hurriedly summoned this morning, it was decided to dissolve the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Victorian Police. Investigator's Report. Important Proposals. Melbourne
The final report of Inspector Alexander Duncan, of Scotland Yard, who was appointed by the Victorian Ministry to inquire into and report on the proposed reorganisation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Two Bundles of Clothing Police Mystified By Discovery
Police are mystified by the discovery yesterday of two bundles of clothes near Sydney beaches. Kenneth Artherson, a park…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Force. Concern at Public Hostility. Special Meeting Held
Senior police officers in Sydney held a special meeting yesterday to discuss what were described as evidences of growing hostility on the part of the public…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Pluck On The Tennis Court Hopman Shows How
IF a vote on who is the greatest fighter in Australian tennis were to be taken, the Victorian, Harry Hopman, would win by a "street." As I watched Hopman miraculously scrape out of trouble in the Australian single's championship yesterday, I was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Law Notices. Monday, January 25. Federal Bankruptcy Court
Before the Registrar in Bankruptcy, 7th floor. Commonwealth Bank Building. 112 Pitt-street, Syuncy, at 10.50 a.m.: Examination under Section 66: Re Douglas Tlarks. Examination under…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →For Trial on Charge of Murder Woman's Death In Brisbane Beer Garden Fight Story Brisbane
THE hearing of evidence was concluded at Brisbane Police Court to-day in the case in which Alice Elizabeth Fein, 22, domestic, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Law Report. Federal Bankruptcy Court; (Before Mr. Justice Lukin.) Summary Trial
Re Charles Cecil Vivian, commercial artist: Bound over for six months. Reference to the case is made in another rolumn. Mr. Nette appeared as official receiver, and…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Industrial News Court Gives Undertaking To Hear Claims Work Stoppage Averted Ironworkers Seeking Wage Increase Meeting Held
As a result of an assurance given by Judge Beeby at a conference of the parties yesterday, that the hearing of claims by the ironworkers and steel construction workshops for an increase of 5- a week in rates would be commenced on February 5. the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Obscene Pictures Sent to Girls' School Australian Sentenced To Gaol LONDON
AN Australian who sent indecent and obscene pictures through the post to a well-known girls' school in England…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Magistrate Rebukes Police Question Of Getting Doctor "Test Should Have Been Applied"
POLICE evidence at North Sydney Court, before Mr. Parker, S.M., acknowledged that when an 18-year-old lad, James Martin Simpson, laborer, was taken to Chatswood Police…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Manly Brothers In Fight Unusual Story in Court Magistrate's Warning Far Future
A STORY of bitter mutual ill-feeling between two brothers was told at Manly Police Court during the week, when Eric Miller, a pastrycook in the village, charged his brother, Frederick Miller, a laborer, with assault. Eric brought…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Problem for Magistrate Medical Treatment For Campsie Man
MR. REED, S.M., confessed himself at a loss what to do for the best at Kogarah Police Court last week after Charles William Butterfield, 24,…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Husband Wins Fight for Child No Love For Him, Wife Tells Magistrate
PROCEEDINGS tinder the provisions of the Infants' Custody and Settlements Act, 1899-1934, were taken by a Summer Hill fitter and turner named Harold Leonard Fribence against his wife, Joyce Pearl Fribence, also…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Drunk, But Drove Car Disregarded Police Warning
DESPITE a detective's warning against driving a car, Lionel Harris Larsen, as soon as the officer's back was turned, got into his car and…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →This Salesman Was Too Slick Gaol for Fraud "Made a Fool Of Myself"
WILLIAM Alexander MacKenzie, 35, salesman, whose correct name was said to be Wallace Alexander MacKenzie, was…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Court Order Echo Of Docker Bankruptcy
AN echo of the sequestration of the estate of Keith Brougham Docker by the Federal judge in Bankruptcy, Mr. Justice Lukin,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Woman Tells of Knife Play Italian Sent For Trial On Charge Of Murder
A MAN and a woman rolled on the floor in a desperate struggle for a knife while eight scared men…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Police Worried by Public Hostility Administration At Fault: No Misrepresentation
OFFICERS of the Police Force are rightly concerned at what they term evidences of "growing hostility" on the part of the public. Recent happenings in connection with the police have undoubtedly reacted against them,…
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