Solicitor Sentenced Misappropriation and Larceny As Bailee
Arthur Vincent Cunningham, solicitor, Cessnock, pleaded guilty at Maitland Quarter Sessions on Monday before, Judge Neild, to eight Charges of…
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Courts & crime, 1937
1,155 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 58
Murder Trial in Sunday School Wife's Charred Body Husband Pleads Not Guilty Ipswich
For the first time in Australian judicial history a murder trial is being held in a Sunday School. Because the Ipswich Courthouse…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lost Viking Probable Court Application Presumption of Death Sought. Sydney
Evidence that the Viking could not have survived in the heavy seas trial were running when she left for Lord Howe Island was contained in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Magistrate Pays Fine
After fining a man 4, with 6 costs, in the Landsborough (Q.) Police Court on Tuesday, Mr. S. Wilson, P.M., paid the fine and costs. Arthur Matcham…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yacht Taken Three Men Chased by Police. Sydney
The yacht Boosaada, valued at £120. was taken from her moorings at Woolwich during the nighty. Later the proprietor of a boatshed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Paralysis Victim Maintenance Out Of Estate Equity Court Case. Sydney
William James Plasto, who, to-day in the Equity Court applied for adequate maintenance out of the estate o his father, Thomas Edward Plasto…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Packed Bench U.S.A. Supreme Court Roosevelt's Broadcast President's Extraordinary Speech Washington
"In a world in which democracy is under attack, I seek only to make American democracy succeed," declared President Roosevelt, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scriven Murder Court Dismisses Appeals. Melbourne
The appeals of William John Cody, 24, laborer, and Rupert Davies, 28 storeman, against sentence of death for the murder of Edward Scriven on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six Months' Gaol
James Barry, aged 61 years, was sentenced to six mouths' hard labor by Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., at Coffs Harbour police court on Wednesday,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Out Again Prisoner Escapes From Gaol. Dubbo
Sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment on Monday, Thomas Leslie Mundy (26), escaped from Dubbo lock-up today. He forced the grille of his cell…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coff's Police Court Three Hours' Imprisonment Refused to Pay for Meals. Coff's Harbor
At Coff's Harbor Police Court to-day, Elmer Victor Jensen pleaded guilty to a charge of having refused to pay for meals and accommodation supplied him…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Small Debts Court
In the Small Debts Court at Coffs Harbour on Wednesday, before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., Ada Hannah Campbell claimed £9 2s 10d from D. C. W…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrong Tie Brings Six Days' Gaol Unpaid Hotel Bill
He put on another man's necktie, and took out the man's girl friend. The man, in jealousy, prosecuted him for stealing his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Food Relief Young Man Charged Used Another Man's Card
James Joseph Slater (19), a stranger to the district, was charged before Messrs T. G. Flynn and E. Avery J's.P., with attempting to obtain food…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Clerk Sentenced Larceny And Embezzlement "Lost Money at Races.' Sydney
Alleged to have placed his clothes in a locker at Bondi baths, then to have fled to Queensland in order to give the impression that he was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →U.S.A. Strikes Court Asked to Act. Detroit
The Chrysler Company has asked the local court for an injunction to compel the strikers to evacuate eight plants and cease interference with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →High Court Writ Issued By C'wealth And P.M.G. Against Amalgamated Wireless (Asia), Ltd. Melbourne
Claiming that Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Ltd., of Sydney, had sent or carried letters for hire and reward otherwise than by post the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plane Crash Cause of Thefts Orgy Of Car Stealing Engineer Sent to Gaol Melbourne
Extensive injuries which he received when a plane gashed 2500ft. were blamed for an orgy of car stealings by Louis Richardson (34),…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder Charge Case Taken From Jury "Evidence Wrongly Admitted." Brisbane
At Ipswich to-day Mr. Justice E. A. Douglas took from the jury the easel in which Wilhelm Frederick Brauer (54) was charged with the murder of his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£800 Bail Salesman on Stealing Charge. Sydney
Edward Cohen, 41, salesman, appeared at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge that between October 1,1935. and March 13, 1937, while the servant…
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