Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 15 September 1967
Constable – appointed 15 September 1968
Senior Constable – appointed 15 September 1975
Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 31 March 1983
Stations: “possibly” the new 22 Division delegate to the NSW Police Association Conference in 1967. If this is the correct person, he was either a Trainee or Probationary Constable at the time.
Liverpool Detectives ( 22 Division – Det SenCon – 1979 ) – ( 1984/5 – Det Sgt 3/c )
Service: From? ? pre September 1967? to? ? ? = ? years Service
Awards: National Medal – granted 9 August 1983
1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 16 September 1993
Anniversary of National Service 1951 – 1972 Medal – granted 17 January 2002
Born: 24 March 1939
Died on: Sunday 22 October 2017 during the a.m.
Age: 78
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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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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
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Funeral date: Saturday 14 October 2017 @ 10am
Funeral location: Glenbrook Baptist Church, 45 King St, Glenbrook, NSW
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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
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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.”
God Has You In His Keeping.
We Have You In Our Hearts.
Family and friends are warmly invited to a celebration of JOHN’S life to be held in the South Chapel, Woronora Crematorium, Linden Street, Sutherland on Thursday 21st September 2017 at 2.00pm.
Published in St George & Sutherland on Sept. 20, 2017
