Sergt. of Police Wandered Away From Court Driving Under Influence Charge. Sydney
Sergeant of police Percy Abraham Weidemier wandered from Kogarah Court to-day, while waiting to answer a charge of driving while under the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1938
1,268 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 61 of 64
Dunolly Murder Trial Of Johnson Deaths of Two Old Men. Melbourne
The trial of Thomas Wm. Johnson, 40, on a charge of the murder of Charles Adam Bunney, 61, and Robert McCourt Gray, 73, commenced at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boy's Death £789 Verdict Reversed Appeal to Full Court. Sydney
The Full Court to-day upheld the appeal of the Commissioner of Railways against whom a verdict for £789 had been given in favor of the parents…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Long Record Defendant Sentenced Posed As "Dr. Rankin" Coff's Harbor Police Court. Coff's Harbor
At the Coff's Harbor Police Court to-day, Albert Vincent Duerden, alias Donald Cameron, who was arrested on December 6 at Yamba, where he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Years Accountant Sentenced Frauds Total £8000. SYDNEY
William Archibald Scott, 48, accountant[?] who, it was stated, had admitted to frauds totalling about £8000 against his employer, the Royal Packet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sherry Murder Jenner And Wallace Appeal Against Death Sentence. Melbourne
Herbert Jenner, 23, and Selwyn Wallace, 22, to-day appealed to the Court of Criminal Appeal against the sentences of death passed on them for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Missing Woman Search Renewed by Police Sydney
The search for Mrs. Florence Eveline Lusted, who disappeared from Medlow Baths some months ago, is being renewed by the police, following a report that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Insanity Plea Dunolly Double Murder "Like a Bad Dream. Melbourne
When the trial of Thomas William Johnson, 40, for the murder of Robert McCourt Gray, 73, and Charles Adam Bunney, 60, at the delicensed Windsor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Amazing Claim 12,000 Cured With Hands 15-Year-old Girl Charged. London, November 26
Twelve thousand sick people have been cured by the laying-on of hands. That is the claim advanced on behalf of Andree Maurel, a 15-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Orara Valley News. Coramba Court of Petty Sessions
On Monday last, before Mr. J. Mc[?]Elroy, P.M., Clarence Blackadder pleaded guilty to a charge of having used indecent language at Uiong, on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Car Stolen Owner Taken Into Bush Bound, Gagged And Robbed Gave Three Men a Lift Police Chase and Capture. Newcastle
Attacked by three men whom he had picked up in his car Pastor Theodore Anderson. Seventh Day Adventist missioner, was bound, gagged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →P.M.'s TRANSFER Court Felicitations
In view of his departure from the Grafton Circuit to the Lismore Circuit, to-day's court at Coffs Harbour will probably be the last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hobart's Lord Mayor Contempt of Court Charge. Hobart
The Full Court in a reserved judgment to-day held that the Lord Mayor of Hobart, Ald. Soundy, and two women had been guilty of contempt of court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lift in Car Clergyman's Story In Court Three Young Men for Trial. Newcastle
Charged with having at Wyee yesterday assaulted Theodore Anderson, Seventh Day Adventist minister and robbed him of a mother car, suitcase and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Theft of Poultry
After an exciting chase at a late hour on Thursday night, a Lismore detective caught a man who was later taken to the police station and charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four Years for Theft of Shares. Melbourne
Sentence of four years imprisonment was imposed on Clarence Royal Curwen. 52, partner in the bankrupt firm of Ward and Co., sharebrokers,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Youths Sentenced Imprisonment And Birch Terrorised Young Women. Melbourne
James Berryman, 16½ years, who pleaded guilty to four charges of armed robbery, was to-day sentenced to five years' imprisonment and ordered to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Clash with Anti-japanese Demonstrators. Brisbane
Following a clash between police arid anti-Japanese demonstrators to-day, three people were arrested. Traffic was held up in Queen street…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Usherette Shot In Brisbane Theatre Man Detained by Police. Brisbane
Oblivious to the fact that Dorothy Coffin, 25, an attendant at the Majestic Theatre, Queen street, Brisbane, had been shot, the audience to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ithaca Seat Hanlon's Appeal Upheld Appeal to High Court Now. Brisbane
The Full Court by a majority to-day upheld the appeal of the Minister for Health and Home Affairs, Mr. Hanlon, who had been declared by Mr. Justice…
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