Statements Court Casein Firemen Are Bitter
When Chief Officer Richardson told the Parliamentary Select Committee inquiring into the conditions of firemen that…
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"Lie Test" Applied To 21 Police HONOLULU
INSTEAD of applying them, 21 police were today the subject of a "lie detector" test. The test followed the removal of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letter Read in Court Alleged Threat To Woman
"I'm telling you I will maim you for life if you fail me, and you know I am silly enough to do it." That passage occurred in a letter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flour Tax Test Cases. Validity Challenged. High Court Action
The validity of the Flour Tax, imposed by the Commonwealth Government last year to provide assistance to wheatgrowers, is challenged by…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Conditions in Reich. Secret Police Alert. "Nation Would March." From Our Own Correspondent. London, Feb. 13
Increasing discontent, longer hours of work, a shortage of food, but a watchful secret police were noted in Germany by Major-General A. C. Temperley, the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Woman of Substance" Charged. Allegations of Theft
Honor Cecilia Ely, 20, domestic, described by her solicitor, Mr. Alan Crawford, as a "woman of some substance," with an income of £125 a month, was charged in the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Assault By Police Alleged WOLLONGONG
Charges against police of assault and of having used insulting words were made today at Wollongong Petty Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charges Against Police Sergeant. Dismissed by Magistrate
Percy Abraham Weidemier, a sergeant of police, was charged at the Central Police Court, with driving under the influence of liquor, driving dangerously and falling to stop…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Appeared In Assault Charges
AT WOLLONGONG Police Court yesterday. Above: Constable John Devonport…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Skull Broken: Assault Charge
With a fractured skull, Daniel Collins, 42, of West Street, Darlinghurst, was admitted last night to Tusculum private hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Years for Assault
"I have looked at your unenviable record and I do not think you are deserving of any leniency," said Acting-Judge Herron to Sydney Roy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Assault. Man with Head Injuries
Daniel Collins, 42, of West Street, Darlinghurst, was taken to a private hospital at Potts Point last night, suffering from head injuries, including probably a fracture…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →No Assault On Girl, Jury Finds
LIVERPOOL, Tuesday. -- Frederick Welsh, 38, of Hereford Street, Forest Lodge, was acquitted today on a charge of having assaulted a 13-year-old girl…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Carnival
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crack Football Team Scores Gaol LONDON
Rumania has been temporarily deprived of her crack football players, because they have to go to gaol. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the entire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thanks for Police
"I would like to thank Constable Cloke and Constable Hicks for the very fair way they have treated me since my arrest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Sidelights
MR. G. O. KELYNACK, solicitor (to woman witness in Workers' Compensation Court): Were you asked to bring,your little girl into court?…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Chief Silent Verdict For Sergeant
No indication could be got today from the Police Commissioner (Mr. MacKay) as to whether there would be a departmental inquiry into the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Traffic Court 120 Cases Behind
When the early morning court had concluded there were still 120 cases listed for hearing at the 10 a.m. Traffic Court yesterday. Many witnesses waited all the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Outpaced Police at 85 M.p.h
Travelling at 85 miles an hour in a stolen car last Sunday, three youths twice outpaced Police Department…
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