Twelve Years Bank Robber Sentenced Defiant Prisoner. Brisbane
"You have passed a most vindretive sentence on me," exclaimed George Kens low when Mr. Justice Douglas sentenced him to 12 years imprisonment to-day on…
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Courts & crime, 1931
1,291 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 40 of 65
Maclean Licensing Court
At the Maclean Licensing Court yesterday, the granting of the transfer of the license of the Hotel Clarence, Maclean, from John Dunsford Shenron to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Irony of Fate Sequel to Release From Gaol. Paris
In a family quarrel at the village of Mittersheim in 1927 Georges Klein, 73, killed his daughter-in-law's second husband for which he was sentenced to five…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cryptic Dock Remark Burning Refuse Lump Supposed Confession to Murder Mysteries. London
The "Daily Telegraph" says that one of the most sensational series of self-confessed murders is laid to the account of Oliver. Newman (66) and William Shelly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£960 in Flour Canister Alleged £2000 Theft. Sydney
At the Central Court to-day, Philip Allen Wilson, or Philip Arthur Wilson, or Watkins, 40, salesman, was remanded to Brisbane on a charge of stealing £2000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District Court Case Under Moratorium Act
In the District Court at Grafton yesterday, before his Honor Judge Mocatta, an action was brought by Leo Joseph Bede Tyrrell, of Baryulgil, against Christopher…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Keep on Courting Magistrate's Advice Trial Period
Neatly attired, with fair hair and a soft pleasant voice, a girl of 20, Miss Olive Marsh, of De Vere-mews, Kensington, the other day applied to the West…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Four Years New York Gangster Sentenced. New York
The gangster Diamond was finally convicted of felony after many contests with the law. He was found guilty to-day of violating the Prohibition Act by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District Court Building Contract
On Saturday last the hearing of the action in which Andrew Heiss, of Grafton, sought to recover the sum of £15516 from Patrick Dixon, of Waterview,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Machine Gun Dug Up by Police Two Communists Arrested. Adelaide
In a lonely spot on Rosewater Plain, about a mile and a half from Port Adelaide, to-day police unearthed a Hotchkiss machine gun which was stolen from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Revolvers Drawn Police and Two Suspects Supposed Stolen Goods in Car. Sydney
Revolvers were drawn by police and suspects before two men were arrested in a city street last night, on a charge of theft…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Quarter Sessions Appeals Two Convictions Quashed Charge of Stealing Tools
Joseph Edward Swann, who was on April 21 last convicted by the Police Magistrate (Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd) of stealing a number of tools from Alfred Burbridge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Simba Value of Racehorse Two Men Charged. Sydney
Charges arising out of the importation of the racehorse, Simba from New Zealand, were heard at the Central Summons Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dole Bread Contractor Sued in Small Debts Court Verdict for £81411. SYDNEY
Marko A. Shadler was used in the North Sydney Small Debts Court to-day by Adrian Newell, who claimed £81411 for petrol supplied to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Many Dead Fierce Street Fighting Riots in Berlin Following National Ballot Communists and Police Clash. Berlin
Late this evening, following the voting on the dissolution of the Prussian Parliament, a serious situation developed, when scenes reminiscent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thousands of Police Parading Berlin Streets. Berlin
Twenty thousand armed police have been mobilised To control the city which is virtually under martial law. The Bulow Square district has been cut…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soviet "Tourists" Under Secret Police Guard. London
A Soviet vessel, Ukraine, has arrived in the Thames with 300 men and 500 women on a tour of Europe in reward for distinguished work in the cause of the Soviet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Level Crossing Gate Flit Disappearance Told in Court Case Contractor Charged
Arthur Jersey Sketchley, 40, a contractor, of Adamstown, was charged, before Mr. Stevenson, S.M., in Newcastle Police Court on Monday with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australians Sentenced in New Zealand Auckland
Two Australian showmen, Percy Short, 51, his son Percy John McKenzie Short, 20, and Maurice Goodman, 33, traveller, were convicted at Auckland on four…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wife Sentenced Attempt to Poison Husband Five Years' Imprisonment. Adelaide
Sentence of five years hard labor was imposed at the Criminal Court to-day on Mrs. Edna Wyman, 28, on a charge of having administered, or caused to be…
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