Police Worried By Crooks On Racecourses Efforts to Check Them Are Small Fear If Stronger 'Action Is Not Taken Public Will Suffer
The Sun · Sunday 12 March 1939 · page 2
Crooks are over-running Sydney racecourses, declare members of the Consorting Squad. Pickpockets, bag-snatchers, proved thieves and even gunmen are mingling with race crowds, but although A.J.C. and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer's Son in Court Charge Of Murder BRISBANE
The Sun · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 1
Charged with having wil-fully murdered his father yesterday, a youth of 17 stood in the dock at Ipswich…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Appeal Against Murder Finding
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--George Green, 36, under sentence of death for double murder, will appeal to the High Court of Australia against his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder Charge. Melbourne
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 12
John James Kirby, 50, of E[?]gin Street, Carlton, was killed during a fight with another man in an apartment house in Canning Street, Carlton, yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Former Postmaster Sentenced. Misappropriation of £373. West Wyalong
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 13
William Henry Mahony, former postmaster at Erigolia, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment by Judge Hill at West Wyalong on a charge of having fraudulently…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Berrima Gaol. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 9
Sir,—The Minister of Justice in Parliament yesterday said he "would be glad if any outside organisation could suggest how the old gaol building at Berrima could be put to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Seven Years Gaol on Fraud Charge Adelaide
The Sun · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 3
"It is one of the functions of this Court to show that crime does not pay," said Mr. Justice Napier, in the Adelaide Criminal Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Carnival. Third Postponement
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 13
The New South Wales police carnival of night events was again postponed on Saturday until next Saturday at the Sydney Sports Ground. It was the third postponement…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Police Doubt After Burial
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 2
BRISBANE, Sunday.--Police are checking the identity of a man who was buried in Warwick Cemetery under the name of John Bright…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Secretary Slates Gollan
Daily News · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 1
Unwarranted interference by the Chief Secretary, Mr. Gollan, had reduced the Police Appeals Board to a farce, the secretary of the Police Association. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Gala Again Postponed
Daily News · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 5
Rain on Saturday night caused the third postponement of the Police Carnival. The gala will be held at the Sports Ground next Saturday night--weather…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Argument About Turkeys Assault Alleged Against Farmer. Tweed Heads
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 13
At the Southport Police Court, Alfred Bobermien, 34, farmer, of Pine Creek, Canungra, was committed for trial at the Criminal Sittinges of the Supreme Court in April, on a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Grim Relic of the Past a Visit to Berrima Gaol
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 23
WHEN the clang of the old non gates of the Beirima Gaol closed behind me I felt tiansferred from this modem word to the past adventurous and romantic life of the bad old days"…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Man and Woman on Murder Charge Poisoning Is Alleged
The Sun · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 7
An application by the defence for separate trials of Harold Percy Smith, 33, and Matilda Ann Edwards, 32, on a charge of murder, was refused by Mr. Justice Maxwell in the Central Criminal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Break Up Drug Ring LONDON
The Sun · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 5
The French and United States police have broken up a drug ring which operated in Paris, the Riviera,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bones in Fire. Man Charged in N.Z. Alleged Exhumation of Body. AUCKLAND
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 12
James Arthur Talbot, 38, described as an Australian labourer, appeared in the Auckland Police Court yesterday morning on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Duesbury's Debts Order by Court Bankruptcy Petition
The Sun · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 2
When Richard Arthur Duesbury's offer to pay off a liability of £352 at the rate of £15 a month was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Man Held As Shield" Police Story Of Street Attack
The Sun · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 1
When menaced by three men, the victim had held one man in front of him as a shield against the other two, who had revolvers, according to a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Denham Court Handicap, 6f. More Credit From Creditor
Sydney Sportsman · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 28
CASH punter Herb Goodwin played up some of his York winnings on CREDITOR, taking £250 to £100. "The financier" took £200 to £100 from…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Photographed Royalty Court portraitist praises charm and beauty of Queen
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 2
Mr. John Lee, a former Bond Street Court photographer, now well known in London as a commercial and fashion photographer, has arrived in Sydney with his partner, Mr. Richard Young…
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