£5500 Verdict Upheld by Full Court. Sydney
The Fun court by majority to-day dismissed the appeal of the Water Board against the verdict of £5500 awarded to Stanley Adrian Charlton,…
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Courts & crime, 1939
1,129 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 18 of 57
Body in Dam Not Yet Identified Skin "Gloves" Taken by Police. Melbourne
Intensive efforts are being made by the police to ascertain the identity of the young man whose body, partly enclosed in a chaff bag, was found in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Annual Trek Men Search For Work Seven "Rattler Jumpers" in Court
The annual trek of unemployed men and youths to the north has begun, and seven men appeared in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Eighth Floor Police Struggle with Man. Sydney
Police and officials engaged in a fierce struggle at the Commonwealth offices to-day when a man announced his intention of jumping out of an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goya Henry Wants Fine Quashed High Court Application. Sydney
An application was made to the Full Bench of the High Court to-day, on behalf of the airman, Goya Henry, to make absolute a rule nisi in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Lagoon More Women's Clothing Pyjama Girl Mystery Police Busy Near Albury Albury
More women's clothing has been recovered by the police from the lagoon, on the Howlong road. It is considered possible that they may…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Father of Child W.A. Court's Decision Despite Clergyman's Denials. Perth
Despite his denials, a clergyman, the Rev. William John Terence Oakley, was adjudged the father of an unborn child in the Perth Children's Court…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fraud Charges Loss of a Thumb Man Before Court £567 Compensation Claims Sydney
When Maurice Marley, 29, came before the Central Police Court, today, on three charges of having obtaised money from insurance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ban in N.S.W. Sale Of Foreign Lottery Tickets Challenged in High Court. Sydney
The validity of the New South Wales Lotteries and Art Union Act, which prohibits the sale in the State of tickets in lotteries conducted outside New…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Grafton Police Court
In the Grafton Police Court yesterday before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, J.P. Charles Harold Hall, 41, was fined 5 or the rising of the court on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stunt Flying Mollison Before Court. Paris
The famous airman, Jimmy Mollison, pleaded not guilty at Montreiul to charges of flying an unlicensed aeroplane, flying low and stunting and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Drowned Fatality At Iluka Body Recovered by Police. Iluka
Albert Ernest Eaton (37), formerly of Grafton, was drowned in about 10ft. of water whilst fishing from the breakwater in the bay at Iluka…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →High Court "Foreign" Ticket Sale Legal Point Argued. Sydney
The High Court to-day reserved judgment in the case involving a point of law whether the sale in New South Wales of what are regarded by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Guard For Lord Runciman No Views on EUROiPEAN Issues Sydney
A posse of plainclothes police and, a squad of uniformed men awaited the arrival of the liner St[?]athnaver to-day, to frustrate any attempt that might…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bridge Bombing Two Men Arrested and Charged. London
Two men have, been charged with an offence under the Explosives Act, following the bomb explosion on Hammersmith bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Housebreakers Ask Police for Lift
Whilst Mr. W. Armstrong was playing in a bowls pennant match against Young at Grenfell on Wednesday, he received an urgent telephone call,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two for Trial Pawnbroker Shot Intent to Murder Charge. Sydney
Eric Kelly, 26, laborer, and Robert Sidney Jones, 34, motor mechanic, appeared at the Central Court to-day on a charge of having shot at Nathan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grafton Regatta Business Houses Active Police Crew the Heaviest
One of the highlights of the 1939 Grafton Regatta, to be held on Easter Saturday, April 8: will be the Business' Houses and Institutions Championship,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Poison in Drink Murder Charge Ex-dorrigo Man Victim Ex-dorrigo Woman on Trial
The trial took place in the Sydney Criminal Court last week, before his Honor My. Justice Maxwell, of Harold Percy Smith, 33, rural worker,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →N. S. W. POLICE How The Force Has improved Some Interesting Early History
Throughout most of the civilised world there has been a great stride forward in police administration and methods during the past century. This…
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