Police Found Whole Thing Was Fishy
CANBERRA, Saturday. -- During the week it was reported that body had been found near a well-known guesthouse…
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Tragedy Ends Awful Life of Terror Father Dies From Bullet Wound: Son Is Charged
ACCORDING to evidence given before the Newcastle District Coroner, Mr. Chiplin, last week, Peter Augustus Clayton, 42, who died in Newcastle Hospital on January 9 after being wounded with a pearifle bullet…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Batons Out Police And Soldiers In Riot Eight Arrests
A wild melee in which two police were the victims of an unruly crowd occurred outside an hotel in…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →'Tiny Tots' Spread Terrorism Police Out to Smash Gang
Marrickville is being terrorised by a gang of hoodlums known as the "Tiny Tots." THE "Tots" are really not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Showed 'Em How Swings, Swipes In Court Interlude
WITH neither the strength of a Joe Louis, now the rotundity of a Two-Ton Tony Galento, William James Pollock, an invalid pensioner, crouched in the witness…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Police A-simmer Friction With Bureaucracy and Many Discontents an Important Conference
TENSION between the rank and file of the police force and the police High Command is not likely to be relaxed by coming events. Indeed, it would appear that the forthcoming general State…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →A Friend for a Guinea Some City Clubs Seen As A Danger To Girls Police Lack Powers Meetings in Private
Alarmed at the unwholesome activities of certain so-called "Introduction Clubs" in Sydney, the police have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Other Woman" Scores Under Army Pay Allotment Law 11 s to Legal Wife, £2 to Rival Court's Hands Are Tied Lady Astor in Protest London
Opponents of the new law whereby "unmarried wives" of men serving in the forces get allowances, claim that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Almost Riot," Nine Charged
"It was almost a riot outside an hotel in which a lone policeman was menaced by a crowd of between 200 and 300 people," said the prosecutor…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Injury Plan Is Charged
On four charges of having placed explosives with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm, John James Davies, 51, laborer, appeared at Hornsby…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Treated By Police As Aliens
Police have ordered many Australian - born King's Cross residents to sign registration forms…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →8 Arrested After Fight with Police
Eight civilians and a 2nd A.I.F. soldier became involved in a brawl with three police officers through a misunderstanding outside a Lidcombe…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Bomb Throwing. Police Make Arrest
An explosion occurred in Brown's Road, Wahroonga, on Saturday night, a few seconds after a car containing three men had passed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →300 in Street Fight. Police Intervene. Eight Men Arrested
When a soldier and a civilian began to fight outside a hotel in Joseph Street, Lidcombe, on Saturday afternoon, a crowd of more than 300 men and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Men on Assault Charge
Three men were charged at Central Police Court yesterday with having assaulted and robbed John Elliot of 6d on January 20…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disturbance at Lidcombe. Soldier and Nine Civilians Charged
When nine civilians and a soldier were charged at the Parramatta Police Court yesterday with offences arising from a disturbance at Lidcombe on Saturday, Sergeant…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Police Guard For Miners
A mixed body of union and non-union miners will enter the idle Nattai-Bulli mine, Burragorang, this morning, under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Taking Liquor Into Jalls. Legality of Regulation Doubted. Magistrate's View
An opinion that regulation 107 (A) of the Theatres and Public Halls Act, which prohibits the taking of intoxicating liquor into a public hall, was ultra vires the Act was given…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Silence in the Court
INSPECTOR TOOLE (at 2.1 p.m. at Central Court): These interstate witnesses are not very punctual…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Questioned by Political Police Brisbane, Jan. 16
Another shot has been fired in the Commonwealth government’s war for “democracy.” Recently the International [?]…
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