Four Police at Barracks
Four constables who were recently reinstated by Parliament were only placed at the police barracks temporarily, the Chief Secretary, Mr…
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Country Jobs For Reinstated Police
Constables Fletcher, Bradbury, Patterson, and Brook, who were reinstated by the Government recently, are to be transferred to country districts…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Silence in the Court
MR. MERVYN FINLAY, trying to finish a case at Central by 4 p.m.: My last witness is a very small one…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tuesday, January 9, 1940. State Jurisdiction. Supreme Court. in Divorce
Before the Registrar.—For taxation.—2.15 p.m.: Clarke v Clarke. To settle issues: O'Sullivan v O'Sullivan; Peat v Poat; Allen v Allen; Ewan v Ewan; White v White; Douglass v Douglass, Deane…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Law Report. Bankruptcy Court. (Before the Acting Registrar.) Examination Under Section 68
Re Sidney Francis Whithear. Adjourned until January 19. Mr. Jacques for Official Receiver; Mr. A. E. Barkell (Messrs. Barkell and Peacock) for petitioning creditor; Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Want "Time Lag" Shortened Court Soon to Hear Unions' Request Not Opposed Melbourne
THE Full Arbitration Court will assemble in Melbourne on January 18 to consider further applications by unions for a reduction of one month in the time lag between the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Barrister Charged. Assault and £2000 Theft Alleged
ALLEGATIONS that Bernard Burns, a barrister, had stolen property valued, at £2000, and had assaulted…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Drug Addict Sentenced
IT was almost an unbelievable story told Mr. Atkinson, S.M.. at Central Court this week when William Cochrane, a…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Father charges daughter with theft of £5000
A Sydney man has issued a warrant for the arrest of his attractive 26-year-old daughter, on a charge of having stolen £5000. Police are searching…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charlie Chan Murder in Hollywood
CHARLIE CHAN, Kirk Barrow, and Gina Lane reach Hollywood, where Norda Noll, famous film star, has been mysteriously murdered in the full glare of the are lamps. As Karma, in a spy picture, Norda tells Lugo Mance that a mine is about to explode. As it explodes, Norda drops, shot…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Married Twenty-five Women & Murdered Sixteen! Grim Killer Dies In Gaol
A MAN who married 25 women, robbed them of a quarter of a million dollars, and then systematically murdered 16 of them, has died in San Quentin prison. He was James P. Watson, the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Mental Divorces In London Court
Meeting Sir Boyd Merriman, President of the Probate. Divorce, and Admiralty Jurisdiction, in London, recently, I was invited to visit his Court…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sleeps white tired Police search MELBOURNE
Police unsuccessfully searched for an escaped prisoner for 10 hours today in swamps and dense…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Troops March on Cafe Police Are Called
Thirty members of the A.I.F., who declared that one of their number had been assaulted,…
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Police are preparing a report which, they claim, shows an appreciable decline in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sweet-king's Daughter Gets Her Divorce Husband Ignored Court Order
THE last chapter in the Sted-man-Armitage romance was written in the matrimonial jurisdiction on Wednesday,…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Case That Calls for a Clean-up Police and Privilege The Beveridge Affair
UNWORTHY and discreditable individuals who are members of the police force are a humiliation to the decent men of the force, and a source of anxiety to the general public…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →"This One Will Do" Youth Beats Police On Domain Fracas Soldiers Fined for Tomato Throwing
VEHEMENTLY protesting his innocence, Alfred Burke, a slim, fair-haired 20-year-old motorsmith, charged with assaulting a police officer at the soap-box parade in the Domain last Sunday, when the air became full…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Soldier Charged
LONDON, Sunday.--Charles Goldie, 26, a private in the Canadian Engineers, was charged in company with a woman with having stolen a £230 brooch during…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Father's £5000 Theft Charge
Sought by the police on a warrant issued by her father, a 26-year-old woman has vanished. The warrant alleges that the…
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