Wife, Two Sons Dead Three Charges of Murder. Brisbane
Gustav August Martin, 52, fireman, appeared at Ipswich Court to-day on a third charge of murder. He is now charged with murdering his wife and…
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Courts & crime, 1940
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Heads Battered Woman and Boy N.Z. Double Murder Bodies at Side of Road Auckland
With their heads brutally battered, Lloyd Moran, 15, and Mrs. Hamilton, 26, were found murdered at the side of a road at Waikino, near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Sergeant Injured
Late yesterday afternoon Sergeant Strownix, of the Grafton police force suffered a dislocated shoulder, abrasions to the right elbow and a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Promotions Officers on the North Coast. Sydney
The following promotions, in the police force have been notified:-- Sergeant 3rd-class to be sergeant 2nd-class, T. S. Turner, Port Macquare; constable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Restitution Order Grafton Case at Lismore Court. Lismore
"If I do make an order it is not because the wife was not justified in doing what she did or that he has shown any claim for her to return to him. In…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Angourie Crocodile May Be Still In District Report by Police Dept. Protection for Bathers Suggested
Yesterday's meeting of the Harwood Shire Council decided to take no action for the present in respect to a suggestion by the police that, in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N.Z. Murder Detectives Discoveries. Wellington (Nz.)
Detectives investigating the murder of Mrs. Alice Hamilton, 27, and Lloyd Moran, 16, of Waikino have found a bloodstained tyre lever and broken…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cattle Recovered Rustler Arrested Long Chase by Police
After travelling over 1000 miles in five days, Detective Constable C. W. McMahon and Constable Anderton, of Grafton, assisted by Sergt. Kerr,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fraud Case Witness Attempt To Leave Country Allegation by Police. Sydney
An attempt to leave the country had been made by an important witness in the Scottish Loan conspiracy case,. stated Police Prosecutor Toole, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Communists Police Protection in Domain. Sydney
Reference to the disturbance in the Domain on Sunday, when soldiers clashed with Communists, was made by Mr. Tully (Lab., Goulburn) in the Legislative Assembly to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£2000 ACTION Woman v. Policeman Assault Alleged. Sydney
In the Supreme Court to-day Mr. Una Florence Driver of Auburn claimed £2000 damages from Constable Walter Farthing for alleged assault…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Forbes Case Witness Complains to Court. Sydney
A salesman witness at the Woolcott Forbes conspiracy, case to-day complained that he was unable to earn his living because of the court…
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Alexander Campbell Anderson was convicted at Taree Quarter Sessions of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on Nola Ruth Smede,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Assault Charge Argument Over Account
Before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., at Coffs Harbour Police Court this morning John Henry Ross proceeded against Thomas E. Evans on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Traffic Breaches Local Court Cases
At Coffs Harbour Police Court this morning William Hunter was fined 20s and 8s costs for failing to return an expired motor driver's license and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Felled a Sapling Sequel in Court
When Ralph Ewart Wilson, of Coffs Jetty, [?]elled a small sapling along the Bucca Creek road on January 23 to get a staghorn, he did not know…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Constable Sued Woman Says He Kissed Her £2000 Claim for Alleged Assault. Sydney
A denial that he had put his arm around Mrs. Una Florence Driver, and kissed her, was made by Constable Walter Richard Farthing, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Contempt of Court Proprietor and Editor Fined. Brisbane
Justice Philp to-day imposed a fine of £100 on the proprietor of the "Protestant Clarion" and £50 on the editor and publisher, Charles Ranger,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coff's Harbor Police Court Unlawful Assault
Before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., at Con's Harbor on Friday, April 12, John Henry Ross proceeded against Thomas Edward Evans on a charge of assault…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Conference "Likely to Be Momentous." Sydney
"Because of seething discontent in the police force, the annual conference of the Police Association, opening in Sydney to-morrow, will be likely to…
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