I. R. A. HANGS Girl Sent To Gaol Bomb Bandits Sentenced. London
Molly Gallacher, 18 was sentenced to three years in a Borstal institution for concealing in her rooms explosive material belonging to members of the…
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Courts & crime, 1939
1,129 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 20 of 57
458 Women Sentenced Native Stoned to Death. Durban
Eleven native women were sentenced to six months, and 447 to three months, for stoning to death a native man, involved in a money dispute with a tribal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Several Cases Traffic Police Detect Breaches "Do the Job Properly."
Constable A. Palmer, one of the newly-appointed police patrol officers in the Grafton district, told members of the Nymboida Shire Council…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney Shooting "Fired to Frighten" Pirates' Cafe Incident. Proprietor on Murder Charge Sydney
He had only fired to frighten Leonard, and not to injure him, declared Leslie Cornelius Wilson (29). at the inquest, to-day, on the death…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pyjama Girl Clothes In Lagoon Anonymous Letter to Police. Sydney
Detective Wilks, who has charge of the Albury pyjama girl inquiries, is still trying tp identify the woman's clothing found in the lagoon off…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maori Charged Manslaughter of Nephew. Wellington (N.z.)
The allegation that Paul Hadfield, 32, a Maori farmer, of Rawene, had hit his nephew with a separator discholder on the head and had killed him,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Iraq Government Regret For Consul's Murder Statement in Commons. London
The Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, in a statement in the House of Commons on the murder of the British Consul at Mosul, Mr. Monck Mason,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Recaptured P'matta Gaol Escapee Free For 111 Days Arrested After Long Chase Sydney
Joseph Bourke, 35, one of the three prisoners who escaped from Parramatta gaol on December 17, was, recaptured near Robertson to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pyjama Girl Wax Figure As Model Police Plan for Identification. Sydney
A wax model is to be clothed by use police with garments similar to those recovered last week from the lagoon at Albury, in an attempt to. solve the identity of the Albury pyjama girl…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eight Killed Indian Gaol Riot. Bombay
A mob of a thousand sacked the Ramdburg gaol. They battered to death eight warders and policemen. The riot occurred over the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Taxi Driver Tricked His Assailant Man Handed Over to Police. Melbourne
Struck on the head with a rubber covered iron bar last night, a taxi driver pretended to be rendered unconscious and, when his assailant bent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court Liquor From Hotel Cloud's Creek Man Fined £1
James Francis Rosa, of Cloud's Creek, pleaded guilty in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., to a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Month's Gaol On Vagrancy Charge Bigamist in Lismore. Lismore
Edward James Smith (38), formerly of Brisbane, was charged under the Vagrancy Act at Lismore Police Court, and sentenced to a month's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Passport Offence Escape In Pyjamas Former Australian Jockey Sentenced. London, March 25
John Dale, the 31-years-old Australian ex-jockey who baffled the London police in 1937 by his sensational escape in his pyjamas from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Missing Girl "Alive And Well" Cheques Sent to Police. Sydney
A parcel containing all the cheques Miss Kathleen Claughessy had with her when she disappeared from Balmain on Saturday was received by post by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →REFUGEES "Undermining An Award" Allegation in Arbitration Court. Melbourne
The matter of refugees competing with Australian workmen was one of considerable importance, declared Judge Piper, in the Arbitration Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Search for Missing Pensioner River Dragged Bush Scoured for Miles Narromine
A large party of police and civilians is searching wild and thickly timbered country in the Narromine district for Thomas Robinson, a 70 year old…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Fined Worn Motor Tyre Now A Police Offence Prosecution at Lismore Lismore
The first case of its kind heard in Lismore, a charge against the owner of a motor truck of having a worn tyre, on a vehicle, was heard in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Native Sentenced Killed Wife and Lover. Darwin
The trial of a young aborigine, Victor in connection with the killing of his native wife and her 19 years old lover, was concluded to-day, when he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →High Court Judge Gives Evidence In Court K.c.'s Claim for Damages. Sydney
Sir George Rich, a Justice of the High Court, was called as a witness in the Supreme Court to-day, when Mr. A. B. Piddington, K.C., aged 76, claimed…
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