Solicitor Sent to Gaol. Subversive Document Charge
In the Central Summons Court yesterday, John Royston Wishart, solicitor, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour by Mr…
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6,510 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 250
Town Police Force "Family Affair"
NEW YORK, December 27.--The Milton (Mass.) Police Force has among its 31 members five sets of brothers and a father and son combination…
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SOLICITOR (to witness, in Central Court): Did you say anything when the two men threw beer over…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Official Favoritism Charged Bulk of War Contracts Go to One Group
Seventy-five per cent, of all recent Government machine tool contracts worth £2,000,000 had gone to one group of manufacturers in Melbourne and Adelaide, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man for Trial. [?] Non-appearance in Court Alleged
When George Dempsey, 86, mechanic, was committed for trial from Central Police Court on Tuesday, on a charge, by warrant, of having failed to appear…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chair-leg Bludgeon As Assault Charge Exhibit
A bludgeon, consisting of a long chair-leg through the end of which several nails had been driven, with their points protruding about an inch from the wood, was exhibited in the Central Police…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fined £20 For Gun Print Theft NEWCASTLE
John Lloyd Wayne King, 32, fitter, of Swan Street, Hamilton, was fined £20 at Newcastle Court today for having stolen…
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WITNESS (in Traffic Court): The constable had his hand on the car door. He stood about four…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court Opposes Overtime. Munitions Production
The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission decided yesterday that required production in a Newcastle factory supplying munitions could best be…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Rents Are Raised by Court
Landlords have made more use than tenants of the Fair Rents Court in the Metropolitan area and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Make Mass Arrests in Italy London
Italian secret police have made wholesale arrests in Venice and Trieste, states the Belgrade correspondent of the Evening Standard. Five thousand political…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Power Over State Awards. Federal Court to Use Discretion
The Commonwealth Arbitration Court will continue to exercise powers enabling it to refrain from hearing matters which it considers should properly be…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Law Notices. Monday, January 20, 1941. Commonwealth Jurisdiction. Bankruptcy Court
Before Mr. Justice Lukin, Federal Judge in Bankruptcy, seventh floor. Commonwealth Bank Building. 112 Pitt Street.—At 10.30 a.m.: Hearing of creditor's petition: Re Jane Sarah Smith,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tobruk Patrols in Clashes. Increased Preparations For Assault. R.A.F. Pounds Benghazi. A.I.F. Units In Position. From Our War Correspondent With the A.I.F., and A.A.P. LONDON, January 17
Latest reports indicate that the preparations to assault Tobruk, the besieged Italian base in Libya, are gaining in intensity. British and Australian patrols have made contact with…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →HAS 22 Heavens and Is "God" to Five Millions When Father Divine, American religious phenomenon extraordinary, was ordered recently by the American Supreme Court to return to Rebecca Grace the £1000 she gave him when she became one of his "Angels" everybody thought the case would end the plump little negro's incredible career. But not a b it of it
THE hearing was splashed on front pages all over America. And it was worth the headlines. In the first place, the defendant,…
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Commonwealth and State police took possession of all documents at the Strathfield headquarters of Jehovah's Witnesses yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Won't Hand Over Pyjama Girl Body
"The Police Department is satisfied that the Pyjama Girl is not the girl named in the claim made for the body, and the corpse will not be handed over to the claimant."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sequel to Big Will Claim Police Allege a Conspiracy
ALLEGATIONS that a man, after ordering a drink in an hotel, set light to a blue-colored form, which he drew from his pocket, and told a policeman who was on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Vicious Night Dives Raided Police Broom Makes a Clean Sweep
RAIDS on two night clubs—one of them the notorious "Palms" establishment—by police fast week-end resulted in a licensing magistrate having…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →"Come in for Supper"--say Jehovah's Witnesses Federal Officers Guard Sect H.Q. Incidents in Brisbane Police Swoop
While Commonwealth peace officers, heavily armed, stood guard at the headquarters of Jehovah's Witnesses at Strathfield last night, a…
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