Bitter Complaints By Police Recent Interviews Cause Unrest
Truth · Sunday 10 March 1940 · page 24
UNREST in the Police Force has been inflamed by interviews which the executive of the Police Association has had with the Commissioner of Police and the Chief Secretary, Mr. Tonking…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Mary's Cap Of Disgrace Parramatta Court Saturday, August 11, 1822
The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 10 March 1940 · page 10
MR. OAKES, Superintendent, states that Mary Ann Buckley was sentenced from Sydney to Twelve months about two months ago for absence from services. That on Sunday morning last about seven o'clock,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Aged Architect Raided His Wife Court Was Told Story About Tall Englishman
Truth · Sunday 10 March 1940 · page 29
JOHN Henry Theodore Peters was 46 when he selected the apple of his eye, an attractive…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Police Seek Inquiry "Will Show Up Some Politicians" Resent Cutting of Pay Assembly to Hear Case
The Sun · Sunday 10 March 1940 · page 7
Supported by the Labor Party, and probably a few other members, Mr. Davidson (Cobar) will move in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Strike on Monday 25,000 Men, 210 Mines Will Be Thrown Idle Last Hope of Peace Has Vanished No Approach To Court
The Sun · Sunday 10 March 1940 · page 3
The coal strike is on, and 210 mines in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria will be idle to-morrow. Late last night, any remaining hope of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£2755 Theft Charge
Daily News · Monday 11 March 1940 · page 1
A man arrested in a street at Manly during the week-end has been charged with having stolen £2755 from the Manly branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shark Arm Case Is Mentioned Police Court Questions
The Sun · Monday 11 March 1940 · page 5
Mention was made in the Central Police Court to- day of the shark arm case, when four men appeared before Mr. Scobie, S. M. They were Patrick Brady, 47,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sentenced to Death Taxi Shooting Case
The Sun · Monday 11 March 1940 · page 3
Sentence of death was passed to- day in the Criminal Court on William Henry Charles Grosvenor, 26,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Inquiry Demand
Daily News · Monday 11 March 1940 · page 2
Legal members of the Labor Party will support Mr. M. A. Davidson, M.L.A., when he moves in Parliament to-morrow for the appointment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Seek Missing Girl
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 March 1940 · page 6
Jean Hayes, 14, has been missing from her home in George Street, Sydenham, since Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Pay-Roll £7000 A Year More
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 March 1940 · page 6
Alterations in the wage scale of New South Wales police had resulted in a net increase to members of £7000 annually the Chief Secretary (Mr. Tonking) said…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Woman Strangled Scene of Strangling Mystery Phone Caller's Clue To Stocking Murder
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 March 1940 · page 2
With a stocking wound twice round the neck and tightly knotted the body of Betty van Tender, 24-year-old Mosman housemaid, was found at Chowder Head Reserve…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suicide or Murder? Woman's Death. Police Theories
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 March 1940 · page 13
Detectives have not, been able to determine whether Miss Betty Van Tonder, 23, whose body was found in the bush at Clifton Gardens on…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Alleged Assault
Daily News · Tuesday 12 March 1940 · page 3
Detectives last night investigated a reported assault on an 18-year-old girl at Mascot. A man who was arrested by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rifle-stealing Charge
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 March 1940 · page 3
James Anderson, 23, a member of the 2nd A.I.F. at Ingleburn, was charged yesterday at the Liverpool Court with having stolen a rifle, the property of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sentenced to Death
Daily News · Tuesday 12 March 1940 · page 2
William Henry Charles Grosvenor, 26, laborer, was sentenced to death in Central Criminal Court yesterday for having attempted to murder…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sentence of Death. Murder Attempt. Women Weep in Court
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 March 1940 · page 12
William Henry Charles Giosvenot, 26, labourer who was convicted of a charge of having wounded Thomas James Brennan on December 21, with intent…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Solder Assaulted. Salesman Sent to Gaol
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 March 1940 · page 13
At the Quarter Sessions yesterday, before Judgp Hill, Ronald Scott, 22, salesman, and John Patrick Smalls, 10, labourer, were charged with having assaulted Ernest George…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Death Sentence on Laborer; "Murder Intent"
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 March 1940 · page 6
"The man who shot me is not in the court today," said Thomas James Brennan, in the Central Criminal Court yesterday. But the man in the dock, William Henry Charles Grosvenor,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Risks Sharks. Avoids Police
Daily News · Tuesday 12 March 1940 · page 3
A man jumped fully dressed into the shark-infested waters of Duck Creek, near Auburn, at midday yesterday, and escaped the police…
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