Murder Trial Manning Farmer's Death Widow and Man Charged. Sydney
Harold Percy Smith, 33, and Matilda Ann Edwards, 32, will stand their trial together on a charge of having murdered William Henry Edwards,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1939
1,129 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 14 of 57
Traffic Control "Road Toll As Bad As Murder" South Grafton Council Last Night's Meeting
Inspector McNeill and Constable Anderton attended last night's meeting of South Grafton Municipal Council, for the purpose of explaining…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Divorce Suits Seven Cases Listed Supreme Court at Grafton
Seven divorce petitions have been set down for hearing in the Supreme Court, before Mr. Acting Justice A. G. M. Pitt, at Grafton, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Killed by Train Thought Police Wanted Him Verdict of Suicide Sydney
Suffering from the delusion that he was being sought by police, Frederick Joseph MacMahon, 60, of Lugarno, flung himself under a train at Mortdale…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Church Burglary Young Men Charged. Kandos
Roy Jackson (24) and Norman Mailey (18) were remanded at Kandos Court, to-day, on a charge of having broken and entered. St. Jude's Roman Catholic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Girl Sentenced Breaking and Entering. Brisbane
A 20-year-old girl, Muriel Joyce Maxfield, pleaded guilty to-day, before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Blair, to charges of breaking and entering four…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court Sidelight
Heard in the Circuit Criminal Court at Grafton yesterday:— Counsel (to male witness): You are a daughter-in-law of one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder Charge Seaman Remanded Sydney
A charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm on Robert Griffin Russell, at Pyrmont, on February 27, preferred against William Smith, 38, seaman, at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Patrol's Wireless Call
Armidale's first patrol car job under the new regulations of the police was a wireless call to investigate an alleged disturbance at a blacks' camp, as a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Armed Hold-up Youth Of 16 Sentenced Three Years' Imprisonment Sydney
Convicted of armed robbery of £750 from two postal officials at Bondi, on September 22 last year, Raymond David Adams, 16, was sentenced to three years'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Policemen Charges Against Three "Assault Insulting Words" Wollongong Cases Wollongong
Arising out of an alleged dispute in Crown street, Wollongong, during the Dalfram pig iron dispute, charges of assault and using insulting words…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Started Fire To Watch Antics Of Firemen Youth Sent to Gaol. Dubbo
Evidence that he had started a fire so he could watch the antics of the firemen was given by Albert Edward Ewers (20), to-day, when he pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arbitration Court New Judge Appointed. Canberra
The Attorney-General, Mr. Menzies, announced to-day that Mr. Thomas O'Mara, barrister, of Sydney, had been appointed Judge of the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bones Mystery "McKay Seen In Sydney" Report to Police. Sydney
A report that Gordon Robert McKay, 43, whose death was reported in a fire at Piha (N.Z.) last month, had been seen in Sydney since the fire, is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COINCIDENCE Dreamt About Fire 16 Years Ago Witness Tells Story to Court
James Bede Donaghy, of Goonengerry, whose house was partially burnt, on November 27 and November 28 last, and who was a witness in a serious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Challenge to Duel Aged Woman and Man Court Didn't Believe It. Sydney
Jack Leonard Scruse put forward a novel defence when he was charged at Glebe court to-day with having assaulted Mrs. Georgina Martins 60…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Criminal Court Jury Locked Up Capital Charge From Richmond District Wrong Section, Suggests Counsel for Defence
The jury in the Circuit Criminal Court at Grafton yesterday was locked up for the night when the court adjourned after the evidence in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charges Denied by Wollongong Police. Wollongong
Denials of allegations made against them were given by the three police officers at Wollongong Court to-day when the hearing was continued of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Not Guilty Cobar Murder Charge Man Stabbed in Struggle. Sydney
At the Central Criminal Court today, Robert Evan Williamson, 26, was acquitted of the murder of Oswald Clive Case, at Cobar, on November 26…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →400 Jay-walkers in Court. Sydney
Nearly 400 cases of jay-walking were dealt with by the Traffic Court to-day. It was one of the biggest lists ever handled by the court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →