Theft of Cars. Organised Gang in Melbourne. MELBOURNE
During the last week detectives attached to the Richmond division of the C.I.B. have discovered evidence of the operation of an oiganised gang of car thieves…
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Brutal Assault Housemaid Battered. Rescuer Grapples with Assailant. Adelaide
A housemaid, aged 20, was brutally attacked by a man on a lonely path leading through Lower Mitcham shortly before midnight on Saturday. In…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Split Your Brains Out" Allegations Against Neighbor Cross Charges of Assault
Pieces of clay which a 76-year-old veteran of the British Army alleged had been thrown at him by his neighbor were shown to Magistrate C. Pickup at the Parramatta Police Court on Friday. Arthur Elliott, of Merrylands-road, Merrylands, who charged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police War on Crime Special Wireless Patrols
So that more detectives will be available to investigate crime, special wireless patrols will be formed, and attached to the C.I.B., from next…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tuesday, January 11, 1938. Supreme Court
In Chambers.—Before the Deputy Prothonorary.— In the Porthonotary s Public Chambers.—At 9.30 a.m.: Wilcox Mofflin, Ltd., v Liewellyn, Liewellyn claimant, interpleader summons…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →1000 Chinese in Uproar Bricks & Bottles At Police SINGAPORE
Last evening 1000 Chinese demonstrated at the Central Police Station, where the 100 that had been arrested, in an anti-Japanese,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police on Ferries Stop Betting Vigil by Special Squads at Sailing Race
TO prevent betting; special police squads, were placed on the ferry steamers which followed the 18-footer sailing race on the Harbor yesterday. Two uniformed men were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farcical Muster by Police Recalled by Death of Station Owner Darwin
Acting police superintendent Love grove reports that George Cook, 65, formerly owner of Goodlaria Station, has been found dead 60 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Clothing of Dead Man Gone Taken By Thief, Is Police Theory at Balmoral
THE absence of clothing belonging to an unknown middle-aged man, who collapsed and died while hathing at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Story On Finding Of Body Interment with Axe Theory Truck Mystery Inquest MELBOURNE
THE story of the finding of the body of John Thomas Demsey was related by police witnesses at the inquest to- day. The hole in which the body was found in a bag appeared to have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Incidents in Shanghai. Clashes Bel ween Police and Japanese. British Cabinet May Meet. Interested Powers to Consult. LONDON, January 9
The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain), who is in charge of the Foreign Office during Mr. Eden's holiday, is expected to call an emergency meeting on Monday of such Cabinet Ministers as are in London, to consider the situation created by the attacks on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Man Charged With Murder Of Child
Alfred Spicer, 65, gardener, was charged at Parramatta Police Court yesterday with having murdered Marcia Hayes, 6, at Windsor on December 24…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Denials To Police In Truck Murder
MELBOURNE, Monday.--Some persons alleged that they had seen Demsey's truck on October 12, the day after Demsey's disappearance…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Charged with Manslaughter
Harold Henry Perrin. 22, French polisher, and Frederick Charles Cully, 47, electrician, were charged before Mr. E. A. Mahoney, S.M.. at Campsie…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Remanded on Murder Charge
At Parramatta Court yesterday Alfred Spicer, 65, gardener, was remanded to Windsor Court on January 17 on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Theft in Bank. £90 in Banknotes Stolen
An employee of the Mutual Life and Citizens' Assurance Co., Ltd., left a book containing £90 in banknotes on a counter at the head office of the Bank of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Clue to Theatre Takings Theft Melbourne
Fingerprints on an abandoned dark blue sedan car, which was found in a lane off Latrobe Street, City, to-day, may, in the opinion of the police,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Court Sidelights
SOLICITOR (to defendant leaving witness box at Industrial Magistrate's Court): Don't leave your blank cheque lying there…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Youth Sentenced to Death British Imperialist Terror Freedom for Palestine
British terrorism continues In Palestine. During the week a young Arab was reported sentenced to death…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Hit by a Woman
"I saw a woman in the crowd hammering one of the plainclothes Police on the head with her umbrella." said Mrs, Elsie May Davis, wife of Colonel…
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