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BILLY SHEPPARD, 68, half-caste, charged with having illegally taken alcohol, pleaded anxiety for a son who had been missing five days. While he was being fined £1, a constable came in and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The British Union of Fascists, which Sir Oswald Mosley leads, complained to the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police (Sir Philip Game) that a metropolitan police sergeant…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →132 George-street North (corner Argyle-street.— Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate—At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Insp. Reybum v Bellenger Frost v Glebe Engineering Works, Ltd., Andrews…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Antonio Barbara, 35, an Italian labourer, was charged in the City Court to-day with having murdered Ethel Rachel May Praetz, otherwise Ethel Rachael May Walker, at North…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →At the Albury Police Court to-day, Michael Francis Seymour pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen a cow, valued at £4, the property of Charles Sheridan, of Lavington,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Thieves stole £2000 worth of jewellery from the hotel bedroom of Miss Jean Hackett, the 27-year-old daughter of the late Sir John Winthrop Hackett, of Western Australia. The…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →MELBOURNE, Monday. -- The police today found the body of Sydney Gordon Smart, 22, in Lake Wendouree, Ballarat…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WITNESS (at Central Police Court): He said that if brains were a disease I'd be in the best of health. CONSTABLE (reading charge at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Before the Registrar.—At 10.15 a.m.: Sydney Glass Co., Ltd., v Charlton. At 10.25 a.m.: Bovd v Morton. At ll a.m.: Bioch and Gerber. Ltd., v Brannand and another. At 11.20 a.m.: Thompson…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The firebug who set fire to two wheat crops in the Euroly district last week has made no further attempts. The contrivance used comprised two…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Frank McDonald, 45, invalid pensioner, was fined £4, with 5/ witness's expenses, at the Central Police Court yesterday, when he appeared before Mr. Parker, S.M., on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Interstate police have promised to aid the Police Association in its efforts to upset the Government's action in dismissing 18 policemen…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →stir in the crowded court at Jackson City, in Kentucky, last Tuesday during the trial of John Sheppard, 18, on a charge of murdering…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →During 1936, 11,875 persons, including 1772 women, were dealt with at the Central Court for drunkenness. Of 4558 who signed the pledge,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY.—The government’s desire to shelve the police question until the first force of public indignation. has died down becomes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The annual report of the West Maitland police shows that during 1936 there were 196 charges made against persons for having allegedly made false declarations for the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Charged in the City Court to-day with having murdered Mrs. Edith Rachel May Praetz. or Walker, of Victoria Street, North Melbourne, on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday. "I am a member of the Bookmakers' Association, and I am proud of it. I am still going to fight, so…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In sentencing Earl Godfrey. 21 to six months' gaol with hard labor for stealing 62 plugs of explosive, Mr. Hawkins. P.M., said the offence was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →James Desmond (30), solicitor, was charged at the central Court to-day. with having, on or about November 27, 1936, stolen £3, the property of…
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