HIS WOODEN LEG There were peculiar circumstance attached to a charge of begging at the Port Adelaide Police Court on Saturday. Timothy Byrnes a miner, of Adelaide, was charged, on the information of Inspector J. E. Noblet, with halving gone… Read More ›
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Stolen money hidden in barman’s wooden leg
A ONE legged barman was charged with stealing £142 from a pub in an inner seaside suburb of Melbourne in 1952. The Melbourne Age reported that the employee was detained by police at St Kilda on January 20 1952 on… Read More ›