Police Trap Two Burglars Caught Amusing Excuse of Accused. Sydney
Arthur Lovering, 26, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, and Jack Albert Webb, 26, to 12 months' imprisonment at the Quarter Sessions…
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Courts & crime, 1939
1,129 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 37 of 57
Dying Depositions Man Shot At Work Police Make Arrest. Sydney
While Anthony Lemoint O'Brien, 46, was loading stone on to a motor lorry on scrub land adjoining the Prince Henry Hospital, at Malabar, this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Hold-up in Club" Melbourne Court Story "Bandits Passed Hat Round." Melbourne
The story of the staging of a holdup in a club in the city on July 9 was unfolded in the City Court to-day, when Lawrence Tiffin, 21, and Harold…
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A dispute about the ownership of a foxhound, which had occupied the attention of the Parramatta Summons Court for two days, ended in heated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hold-up Sequel Laurieton P.O. Robbery Youth Sentenced Three Years' Imprisonment
At Taree Quarter Sessions the youth, Allan. Roy Brown, was charged that, oh May 17 at Laurieton, being then armed with an offensive weapon, to wit, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Theft of £150 Jury Rejects Story Punter Loses His Cash. Sydney
A jury at Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions to-day rejected a' story told by Alfred James Ingram, 60, that he had been robbed of £33710 in a hotel bar…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Convict Escapes Patient In Hospital Bloodhound Loses Scent Swallowed Needle in Gaol. Sydney
Joseph Bourke, 35, convict, who escaped from the Prince Henry Hospital, at Little Bay last night, is still at large…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Men Wanted Wide Police Search Woodenbong Car Mystery. Lismore
The police in two States are now engaged in a search for three men who, it is believed, abandoned a stolen Vauxhall sedan motor car in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grafton Police Court
At the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, J.P.,. Robert Gray, 29, was fined £3 on a charge of having behaved in an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Dead End Kids" Youthful Sydney Gang Broken Up By The Police Theft Rather Than Work" Sydney
Evidence of a group of youths calling themselves the "Dead End Kids " was given at Balmain Court, when two youths appeared on different…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ulmarra Tennis Club New Court to Be Constructed
The Ulmarra Tennis Club held their quarterly meeting on Wednesday night, Mr. R. K. Jones, president, being in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →German Refugees Afraid Of Secret Police Incident on Ulysses. Sydney
How German refugees on the liner Ulysses had been terrified by the presence of a young German, who they thought was a member of the German…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More Tense European Situation Heavy Troop Movements Danzig Police Reinforced London
The situation in Europe is described by the British United Press Berlin correspondent as being slightly tenser. Military preparations in Danzig are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man in Hospital Bodily Harm Charge Alleged Assault and Robbery
Charged with having assaulted Lucas Liveratos, in Prince street. Grafton, on July 10, thereby occasioning actual bodily harm, Reginald Johnson (30)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cup Night Incident Violent Half-caste Charged with Resisting Arrest
A half-caste aborigine, Alec McDougall, pleaded guilty at the Grafton Police Court yesterday before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P. M., to charges of offensive…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Good Crowd Pleaser" Boxing Man In Court Alleged False Pretences Accused Discharged
Some interesting on training for boxing contests were revealed during the hearing of an action in the Court of Petty Sessions at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Grafton Police Court
In the Grafton Police Court on Saturday morning, before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., Reginald Edward McMshon, 43, was fined £1 or two days' imprisonment,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Men Arrested On Railway Station Alleged Theft. Coff's Harbor
On Saturday afternoon the Coff's Harbor police arrested two men who had just alighted at Coff's Harbor railway station from the North Coast mail train…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Danzig Police Arrest Polish Youths For Crossing The Border "Frontier Aggression" Warsaw
The Danzig police arrested 10 Polish students, aged 18 to 20, and charged them with frontier transgression…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Car Thefts Drastic Steps In Victoria Five Years Gaol
During the last six months 1000 motor vehicles were stolen in Victoria, and although nearly all were recovered, many were damaged from…
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