Group of Finns Reported Frontier Murder. Moscow
It is announced that a group of Finns occupying leading posts in the Karelia Republic bordering Finland have been annihilated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1937
1,155 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 43 of 58
Judge Sums Up Court System. Brisbane
Summing up in a case in the Supreme Court to-day, Mr. Justice F. A. Douglas said he thought the defect in the whole system of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Blind Jealousy' Elizabeth Kirby's Will Contested By Her Son Asks Court for £20,000 SYDNEY
It was claimed in the Causes Court to-day that Mrs. Elizabeth Kirby had shown blind, unreasoning jealousy towards her son's wife, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Hooded Men" French Secret Society Raided by Police. Paris
The police, searching the Paris headquarters of a secret organisation called The Cagoulards (hooded men), found a large number of machine guns and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder Charge Clancy Not Guilty End Of Trial At Roma to Be Sent to Asylum Roma
On the ground of unsoundness of mind, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty of wilful murder, murder or manslaughter against Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Change
Constable H. A. McDonald has been promoted to the position of lock-up keeper at Murrurundi, and expects to be leaving Coffs Harbour in about a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol for Fraud Water Instead of Eucalyptus. Sydney
A sentence of 23 months imprisonment was imposed on Richard Lonsdale (50), a former hotelkeeper, on a charge of fraud, at the Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gaol Riot Three Killed in California. San Francisco
One guard and two convicts were killed in an unsuccessful attempt by seven convicts to escape from the penitentiary at Folsom (California)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Garnishee Gases Grafton Small Debts Court
In the Small Debts Court at Grafton yesterday, in the matter of Frederick Russell Blood, storekeeper, of Grafton, v. J. Donnelly, of George street, South…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Years Swindled a Widow Engineer Sent To Gaol Betting for Andy Knox Melbourne
A sentence of five years' imprisonment was imposed on Jack Mann (38), engineer, at the General Sessions to-day on a charge of haying…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Supreme Court Probate Jurisdiction Grafton, October 11
The Deputy Sheriff at Grafton, Mr. George Morrison, has been advised that his Honor Mr. Justice Nicholas will sit in the probate jurisdiction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£250 VERDICT Against Supreme Court Sheriff Alleged False Imprisonment. Sydney
The hearing concluded in the Supreme Court to-day in the case in which Jack Carl Ward claimed £2000 damages against the Sheriff of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Sick of Lies" Mrs. Munro's Outburst Scene In Divorce Court [?]Telkeepers Evidence Sydney
Leaping to her feet and crying out. "I am sick to death of hearing their lies," Mrs. Munro, wife of the jockey. Darby Munro, rushed out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gaoled for Assault on Police
An assault on two police Officers at a carnival in Woodlark street on Friday night. fed to the appearance of Norman Comberger (27) at Lismore Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Urge Secrecy Pyjama Girl Mystery. Sydney
Although Mr. C. A. Kelly (Lab. Bathurst), made a request to the Premier in the Legislative Assembly last week, for all papers in what is known…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shot Dead Accused In Murder Trial Family Revenge Suspected. Shelbyville (Kentucky)
Brigadier-General Henry Denhardt, a well known politician and soldier, whose trial on a charge of murdering Mrs. Vera Taylor, his fiancee six…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stopped Case Jury At Lismore Court Aborigine Discharged. Lismore
At the conclusion of the Crown case, a jury at Lismore Supreme Court today announced that it did not desire to hear evidence in defence in a case in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three Youths Sentenced Escape From Prison Farm. Sydney
Sentence of two years' imprisonment was imposed on Ross Keith Whittall. Harold Henry Billington and William Henry Nicholson, each 17 years old, at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →REMANDED On Murder Charge Cabaret Shooting Case. Sydney
Before he died, as a result of a gunshot wound, received last Friday morning, at King's Cross. George Thomas Lynch, 37, is alleged to have told the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brewery Strikers Refuse to Obey Court's Order. Brisbane
When the time limit set by the Industrial Court expired to-day, the stay in brewery sttrikers were visited by representatives of the…
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