Stan was, apparently, a very tall man at 6′ 6″ of 5′ 19″, with plenty of stories to tell and being told about him Love his blue singlet and a rollie cigarette. A legend of a man.
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John William BYRNE
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John William BYRNE
Late of ?, formerly of Ruse
Academy Class 190
New South Wales Police Force
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Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 14 January 1983
John apparently passed away on a golf course recently – doing one of the things he loved.
Apparently John and the late T. L. Morrison disarmed a dangerous man at Campbelltown many years ago – for which they received a bravery award.
Apparently worked in Licencing Police with Wayne Geoffrey Hack ( # 12564 ) – ( RIP ), Phil Clark (RIP ) & Peter Danyluk ( # 17630 ) from Macquarie Fields Police Station when Liverpool and Campbelltown Licencing Police were amalgamated.
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Cal
20 October 2017
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Charles Richard ROTHWELL
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Charles Richard ROTHWELL
Late of ?
New South Wales Police Force
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Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 12 April 1955
Constable 1st Class – appointed 22 September 1964
Senior Constable – appointed 22 September 1968
Senior Constable – Retirement
Stations: ?, Regent St, Police Choir – Retirement
Service: From? ? pre April 1955? to 15 September 1986= 31+years Service
Awards: No find on It’s an Honour
Born: 16 September 1926
Died on: Wednesday 20 September 2017
Age: 91
Cause: ?
Event location: ?
Event date: ?
Funeral date: ? ? ? ( Already held )
Funeral location: ? ( Unknown )
Buried at: ?
Memorial located at: ?
[alert_yellow]CHARLES is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance[/alert_yellow] *NEED MORE INFO
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Bruce was a former Head Coach and champion rower at Penrith Rowing Club.
There are various newspaper articles about Bruce, as far back as 1947 in relation to rowing.
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Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 – 1954), Tuesday 1 July 1952, page 1
FARMHAND, 17, CHARGED
WITH MURDER OF TAXI-DRIVER
A young Victorian farmhand was charged at Phillip St. police station at 4.30 am today with the murder of Joseph Edward Fisher, 29, Dee Why taxi-driver, at Church Point, last Saturday. He is Peter Mannington Harvie, 17½, of Eildon, a township about 60 miles from Melbourne.
Harvie was arrested shortly after midnight on Wynyard ramp, by Constable Bruce Soane and *Probationary Constable Kevin Proud, who were on beat duty. It is understood Harvie approached the two constables, said something to them, and accompanied them to Phillip St. police station. Harviewas questioned by Detective-Inspectors Calman and Rogers, of the CIB Homicide Squad, and wrote out and signed a long statement.
Dressed in old clothes — a high-necked woollen sweater over a working shirt, heavy boots and an old overcoat — Harvie was taken by car to the culvert at Church Point where Fisher‘s body was found. He was then brought back to Phillip St. police station and charged with murder.
Melbourne lead
As the charge was read Harvie gazed straight at the sergeant without speaking, and was then locked in a cell.
Harvie appeared before Mr. Macreadie, SM, at the Children’s Court, Albion St., at 10 am. Proceedings lasted only a couple of minutes.
Harvie was charged with the murder of Fisher and formally remanded until July 24, the date on which the coroner will hold the inquest. Harvie was then taken back to the CIB.
On Saturday at 11.30am Christopher Mallis, the owner of Fisher‘s cab, saw the cab being driven in Oxford St., Paddington, by a stranger.
Mallis stopped the cab and the stranger ran away.
Police then discovered bloodstains, a spent .22 calibre cartridge and Fisher‘s watch and cigarette lighter in the cab. A sawn-off pea rifle was found later in the backyard of a house near where the cab had been stopped.
Following publication of a photograph of the weapon in Melbourne newspapers yesterday, Detective Petty, of the Melbourne CIB, was visited by several youths.
Detective Petty communicated with CIB chief James Wiley, at the Sydney CIB. and detectives on the Fisher case then were instructed to search Sydney for a Victorian youth. It was while they were combing the city that Harvie was arrested by Constables Soane and Proud.
CONSTABLE Bruce D. SOANE (left) and Probationary Constable Kevin P. Proud, who took into custody early today, a youth subsequently charged with the murder on Saturday of a Sydney taxi-driver.
PETER MANNINGTON HARVIE, who has been charged with having murdered taxi-man Joseph Edward Fisher.
Service: From 1 March 1943to? ? ? = ? years Service
Awards: National Medal – granted 29 June 1984
Born: Friday 29 April 1927
Died on: Saturday 7 October 2017
Age: 90
Cause: ?
Event location: ?
Event date: ?
Funeral date: Saturday 14 October 2017 @ 10am
Funeral location: Glenbrook Baptist Church, 45 King St, Glenbrook, NSW
Buried at: ?
Memorial located at: ?
2014
Back row, l to r: Bob Day, Ted Cook, Ken Fitzpatrick, Cliff McHardy, Ted Houghton, Frank Metz, Colin Joyce Middle row: Dennis Toohey, Kevin Lawler, Frank Parkes, Dick Lascelles, John Eisenhuth, Bob Smith, Ron Bunt Front row: Jim Pyne, Jock O’Keefe, Fred Aldred, Charlie Crittle, Joe Hall, John Wilson, Ken Donald
[alert_yellow]CLIFF is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance[/alert_yellow] *NEED MORE INFO
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THE death has occurred at the weekend of former prominent Lithgow sports broadcaster and police officer, Cliff McHardy.
Mr McHardy, always a larger than life personality, was Detective Sergeant in charge of criminal investigations in Lithgow through to the mid 1970s.
He was transferred on promotion to Penrith where he retired with the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent. His retirement home was at Glenbrook but he kept in regular contact with Lithgow. Mr McHardy conducted the live broadcasts of Group 10 rugby league for Radio 2LT which were a popular feature of weekend sport at that time.
Mr McHardy told the Lithgow Mercury that one of his biggest disappointments in unsolved crime was the bizarre incident in 1970 when an attempt was made to derail the royal train during a night time passage through Lithgow with the Queen and Prince Phillip en route to Orange.
A log was placed across the tracks in a cutting at Bowenfels but was dislodged by a ‘sweeper’. The incident was officially hushed up but 30 years later made international headlines when revealed in the Mercury following an interview with the retired detective.
The disclosure even resulted in Mr McHardy being contacted by a Hollywood producer interested in making a movie about the drama.
Mr McHardy, who was in his 90th year, is survived by wife Colleen, daughters Ann Marie and Karen and son Peter and their children.
Inverell Times (NSW : 1899 – 1954), Monday 5 January 1953, page 1
TWO MONTHS’ GAOL FOR ASSAULT WITH STOCK WHIP
An Inverell man — described by police as ‘an absolute nuisance‘ — who was said to have assaulted Inverell Jockey Club secretary, Jack Marquart, with a stock whip, was sent to gaol for two months by two Js.P. at Inverell Court to-day.
He was William David Gordon Munsie, aged 50, of no fixed abode. Munsie pleaded ‘not guilty’ to having unlawfully assaulted John Ambrose Marquart at Inverell racecourse on December 30, 1952.
Constable Clifford Mason McHardy said about 3:20 p.m. on December 30, following a telephone call to Inverell police station, he went to the stable at the rear of Inverell racecourse, where he was told something. ”
I saw the defendant riding a horse alone a track running at the rear of the course. ” When I first saw him he would have been about 300 yards from me. ” I started to follow him in the police truck along the roadway, and at the time the defendant was walking the horse. ” He appeared to look round and broke his horse into a full gallop.”
Const. McHardy said he pursued the defendant for about two miles through the paddock and all the time the defendant kept the horse at a full gallop.
” Marks On His Back “
” I arrested the defendant at his camp on December 31, and when I told him it was alleged he had assaulted Jack Marquart with a whip and had tried to run him down with his horse at the back of the racecourse, Munsie said: ” I was trying to make him let go of my bridle “. Const. McHardy said Munsie was then taken to Inverell police station and charged. The whip had been recovered at the racecourse at the time of the incident.
He said he had spoken to Marquart at the course and he had a number of marks down his back. Answering the defendant, Const. McHardy said Munsie went for two miles from the time he followed him to the time he lost him.
John Ambrose Marquart, clerk, of 85 Vivian Street, Inverell, said on December 30 last he was at the Inverell racecourse. He said Munsie went to the racecourse about 3 or 3.15 p.m. ” The first salute I got from Munsie was when he rode up to the loading ramp where the horses unload, and said: ‘Good day, Marquart.’ ” ” I said: ‘Good day. Chappie’. ” He rode away to some men at the new stable doors, and the next thing I knew was that Munsie was bellowing abuse and very bad language. ” I walked over towards him and said “Get away out of the road as quick as you can.’ ” He turned towards me with the horse he was on and charged straight for me. ” He appeared to be in a very drunken state and all you could hear was very bad language coming out of his mouth.” said Marquart. ” When he charged me I stepped aside and took hold of the horse by a check rein he was using on the horse. ” I held the horse by the rein, and then Munsie got into me with a double whip. ” He tried to flog me with the whip from the horse. ” He struck me with the whip. ” The marks on my body show he struck me at least three times. He hit me on the left shoulder,” Marquart said. ” I took the whip off him during the struggle. ( The whip was produced in Court ).
Marquart said he was wearing only a shirt and took the full force of the blows. ” After the first blow, I said to him: ‘For God’s sake. Chappie, go away. If you don’t I’ll have to send for the police’. ” I got my son to inform the police.” Marquart said the defendant was not employed at the racecourse on that day. He had no authority to be in the enclosure. ” I gave him no provocation to charge me and try to run me down.”
” Look Out, Jack “
He said he walked towards the gate to try to entice Munsie away. ” I was walking about 10 paces away when he came for me a second time. ” I heard someone say: ‘Look out. Jack.’ I stepped aside and Munsie went past me. ” It was the second time he tried to run me down. ” He saw the police coming and took to the hills.” Marquart said he had possession of the whip when Munsie charged him a second time.
Messrs B. A. Wood and J. Carmody, Js.P., were on the Bench. Sgt. J. McD. Dwyer prosecuted. Sgt. Dwyer said Munsie had a long record including a conviction for assault on December 15, 1947. for which he received one month’s hard labor, and another conviction for assault on June 24, 1949, when he received 14 days. ” He’s an absolute nuisance,” Sgt. Dwyer said. ” He’s only just been discharged from gaol. He’s no sooner out than he’s in again.”
Convicting Munsie, the chairman of the Bench. Mr. Wood, said: ” This sort of thing will not be tolerated. You have a very bad record. You will go to gaol for two months.”
Three police constables ( half of the Merrylands force ) have just completed a race with the stork. Their three babies, all born in Parramatta Hospital, are boys.
Constable Wally Gibson narrowly won the event by two hours from colleague Constable George Marshall. Constable Laurie Shields came a poor third two weeks later. The three mothers and the boys ( all six of them ) are reported to ‘be fit and well’.
Biz (Fairfield, NSW : 1928 – 1972), Wednesday 11 December 1957, page 25
WRONGFUL ARREST
CLAIM AGAINST CONSTABLE REJECTED
A Parramatta District Court jury on Friday rejected a claim for damages against a police constable.
Laurence Beresford Tibbles, of Chetwynd Road, Guildford, sued Constable Laurence Shields, of Merrylands, for £1.000, alleging wrongful arrest, assault and malicious prosecution.
Mr. N. Nelson, for Tibbles, said his client had used insulting words when Constable Shields came to his house on December 20 last. Constable Shields had arrested Tibbles ” on the spur of the moment ” knowing that no offence was committed as the words had not been said in a public place, A magistrate in a lower Court hearing had dismissed the charge of insulting words on the grounds they could not be heard in public. and showed ” reckless indifference ” in arresting Tibbles.
Mr. S. Ross, for Shields, said the constable honestly believed an offence had been committed and had acted within his powers.
Biz (Fairfield, NSW : 1928 – 1972), Wednesday 12 October 1955, page 14
BRIBE OFFER TO POLICE
At Parramatta Court of Petty Sessions on Monday a plaster cutter was fined £10 for trying to bribe a police officer, and £3 for
driving an unregistered motor cycle. . He is John Barry Kedwell, 18. of Hassell Street, Wetherill park. : Constable L. Shields, of Merrylands, said that when he and another constable stopped Kedwell, he pulled out some notes, and said. ‘Will £5 do between the pair of you?”
Last Wednesday night a public meeting was convened by Guildford Sub-Committee of Holroyd Council’s Flood Victims’ Fund, held in Guildford School of Arts. The election of office-bearers resulted as follows: President. Aid H. Maley; hon, secretary, Aid. O. D. Young; hon. treasurer. Mr. Bob Porter; Mr. Arthur Robinson, president Guildford R.S.L. and Constable Shields, of Guildford Citizens’ Boys Club, completed the executive committee.
After considerable discussion, general opinion of the meeting was that the best method to raise money was by conducting functions. It was decided that it was too late to commence a house to-house collection. Many suggestions were put forward. the three principal ones being, to approach Hoyts Theatres for use of the Regent Theatre for A Sunday entertainment, an evening at Mr. Charlie Davis’s private theatrette, and an open-air concert in Guildford Park.
If any persons have any suggestions that may assist the committee, they are invited to contact the sectary. Ald. O. D. Young, at Guildford Hardware Company, who. with the treasurer, Mr. Bob Porter, will also accept any donations.
BELL:
POLICE FUNERAL The Funeral Service for the late Mr Edward Alan (Alan) Bell, Ret. Chief Superintendent WA Police, of Australind will take place in the Crematorium Chapel, Belcher Street, Bunbury commencing at 2.00pm WEDNESDAY (27.09.2017).
No flowers by request, donations to the Parkinson’s Association would be appreciated. Envelopes will be available on the day.
Garry and Jo Birch on 21 September, 2017 at 4:27pm
Great memories of a Good Police Officer and Wonderful Family man.
Happy memories from our Coffee Mornings. You fought hard to stay and leave us with lots of wonderful memories.
Judy Jones. on 21 September, 2017 at 1:04pm
With sincere condolences to Alan’s family and his Police family on his loss. From Judy Jones.
Nothing further, at this time, is known about this man.
Cal
22 September 2017 1.40am
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Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 – 1954), Monday 21 July 1952, page 2
JUDGE ON PERIL OF WRONG-SIDE CAR PASSING
To overtake on the left side was a dangerous practice for motor-drivers, Judge Lloyd said in Quarter Sessions Appeals Court today.
“It is pretty prevalent in Sydney, Judge Lloyd said. “It has almost become a rule of driving, but some day there may be a very bad accident, he added. The judge made this comment during the hearing of an appeal by Eric Jellinek, Grosvenor St., Woollahra, against severity of a £10 fine imposed by Mr. Stonham, SM, at the Traffic Court on May 8 for overtaking vehicles on the incorrect side in Moore Park Rd., Paddington.
Constable Frederick Joseph Rafferty said he saw Jellinek, who was riding a motor-cycle, pass five vehicles on the wrong side. The constable said this portion of Moore Park Rd, was a dual road separated by plantations. It was the practice for motor-drivers going west to keep close to the plantations on their right-hand side.
Judge Lloyd said it would have been extremely difficult for Jellinek to have overtaken vehicles on the right side.
But there was risk that some vehicle ahead of him might have swung out to Jellinek’s right side. In the circumstances. Judge Lloyd said he would reduce the fine from £10 to £2.
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate (NSW : 1876 – 1954) , Tuesday 2 December 1947, page 3
Hecklers “Worst Enemies Of Democracy”
SYDNEY, Monday. – Men who heckled public speakers were the “worst enemies of democracy,” Judge Barton said in the Quarter Sessions Appeals Court to-day.
He made this comment when hearing the appeal of George Thompson, merchant seaman, 60, against a sentence of one month’s gaol for disorderly conduct at a meeting addressed by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Menzies) at the Maccabean Hall ( Darlinghurst ) in September, 1946.
Judge Barton set aside the sentence and imposed a fine of £5. “I have not the slightest sympathy with this type of conduct, and I think it is absolutely essential in democracy to preserve the right of the public to hear what a public man has to say,” Judge Barton said. “Although these men may not realise it, through their ignorance, they are in fact the worst enemies of democracy.
“Low Types”
“It looks as if a very low type of citizen banded together to frustrate this meeting, he added.
Constable Frederick Joseph Rafferty said Thompson had shouted: “Pig Iron Bob, you dirty Fascist. We want Eddie: we want Eddie Ward.”
Mr. J. B. Sweeney (for Thompson) said 15 persons had been arrested at the meeting. The other 14 had all been fined, although there was no evidence to show Thompson’s conduct had been any worse than that of the others.
Love you Dad
Dad – Always a proud copper
