Perjury Charge Against Lily Vogwell Sequel to Recent Court Case. Sydney
A charge of perjury was preferred against Lily Jane Charlton Vogwell (48), typist, at the Central Police Court to-day. It was alleged she wilfully…
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Courts & crime, 1939
1,129 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 24 of 57
"Menace to Public" Odds And Evens Game Five Men in Police Court
"The game being played is a menace to the public and to the people attending these showgrounds," said Sergt. E. G. Druitt, when five men appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Truda Charged "Carrying a Razor." Sydney
A remand to May 12 was granted Nicola Truda (58), merchant, when he appeared at the Central Police Court to-day charged that while in custody…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Judge's Death Collapsed In Court Mr. Justice Milner Stephen While Summing Up in Case Sydney
While summing up in a case in the Supreme Court this afternoon, Mr. Justice Milner Stephen, aged 69, collapsed and died within a few minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Moth Plane. Alleged Theft Charge Young Man Arrested After Engine Cut Out. Brisbane
An attempt by a young man to take off in a Gipsy moth plane, which he had taken out of the hangar at Archerfield aerodrome early this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Search For Missing Youth Blood on Bicycle. MELBOURNE,Saturday
For two months detectives have searched in vain for a trace of George Lloyd Davidson, 20, who disappeared from Miners' Rest, a few miles north…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fitter Charged "Attempt to Steal Plane." Brisbane
Charged at the Police Court, to-day, with having attempted to steal a Gipsy Moth aeroplane, valued at £650, the property of Ethel Jones, at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Annoys Police Colored Woman's Lapses
Kate Little, a colored woman, who has been before the court previously on charges under the Vagrancy Act, drunkenness and stealing, pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Thieves £72 in Fines Imposed One Sent to Gaol. Wollongong
Fines totelling £52 and gaol sentences aggregating 15 months were imposed on Douglas Barr, 20, at the Police Court to-day. He was fined…
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James Pledge was to have appeared at the Central Court to-day on a charge of having attempted to commit suicide on February 26, but when,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Coffin" Procession Relief Workers Before Court. Sydney
Because a coffin on which was inscribed the Words, "He died in a Spooner slave camp,'' nine men paraded through streets of Parramatta shouting protests…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hit Finger Language Was Violent Fine Imposed in Court
When a man hits his finger with a piece of wood he usually makes some violent exclamation. He should be careful to see that there are no other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stole Loaf Could Not Get Rations Colored Youth in Court
Stealing a loaf of bread from a car in Prince street, Grafton, William Donovan an 18-year-old colored youth from Nambucca Heads, appeared in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£200 Ribward City Hotel Murder. Sydney
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mackay, has recommended to the Government that a reward of £200 be paid for information leading to the arrest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dead Bodies Search Near Narromine Man Accompanies Police. Narromine
Further movements of Timothy, O'Shea were traced to-day by the police, who are conducting a search for three men, who are missing in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Armed Police Prevented Disturbance S.W. Africa Nazis. Johannesburg
The South African Union Government's reinforcement of the South- West African police, frustrated developments which might have raised the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tenterfield Murder Kelly's Trial Plea of Insanity Eric Sommerlad Memory Is Blank Armidale
"A brutal and callous murder, which had its origin in lust, succeeded by cupidity," was how the Crown Prosecutor, Mr. Clancy, K.C.,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"I Am Sorry'' the Tenterfield Murder Kelly Sentenced To Death Father Was Overcome Relating Incidents of Son's Life. Armidale
John Trevor Kelly, 24, motor mechanic, was found guilty at the Criminal Court to-day of the murder of Marjorie Constance Sommerlad, at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Assault On Press Photographer Reference in Parliament. Sydney
Reference to the alleged assault by an Air Force officer upon a newspaper photographer, at the wrecked Avro Anson bomber at Riverstone, last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"You're Not Human" Prisoner To Judge Theft From Lodge Funds Sydney
From the dock at the Quarter Sessions to-day, William Walker Denny, 34, called out to Judge Curlewis. "You are not human." after he had been…
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