Dorrigo Twins Charged
Raymond and Albert Bell, 17-year-old twin brothers from Dorrigo, were charged at Ipswich (Q!) Police Court yesterday with attempted robbery…
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Courts & crime, 1940
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McMAHOW CONVICTED Cross-Action Concluded Alleged Assault at Cowper Magistrate Receives Anonymous Letter
After a hearing which lasted three days, the cross-action case of alleged assault at Cowper on Saturday, March 30, was concluded yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Strikers Must Resume Work Then Approach Court Judge Beeby's Advice Melbourne
Before they can hope to receive any redress from the Arbitration Court, the coal miners now on strike must return to work…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lismore Sessions Youth Sent To Gaol Prisoners Remanded for Sentence. Lismore
With a long record of convictions is New South Wales and Queensland dating back to 1913, John Burton. 45, a native of Grafton, was found guilty at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Court Former Sportsmen Clash Trouble Over Dog. Sydney
A Macquarie street specialist and former middleweight champion of an Irish University, Edward Haslett Frazer. proceeded against Hunter L. Hendry,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wild Melee Police and Chinese Sit Down Strike On Ship Crew Objects to War Zone Sydney
A clash occurred between Chinese members of the crew of an overseas freighter and 20 police at Sydney wharf to-night. Heavy ingots of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Contempt Charged Surf Club Suspended
Point Danger Branch of the Surf Lifesaving Association, at its final meeting for the season suspended Cudgen Headland Club "until it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Father Sentenced Shocking Case at Alstonville Lismore
"You are the father of five children, all girls, Your trust in life was to look after them Apparently your idea of the way you should carry out your…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Criminal Record Grafton Native Sentenced Lismore Quarter Sessions. Lismore
John Burton, 45, was sentenced at Lismore Quarter Sessions to-day to nine months' hard labor. Burton has a lengthy record of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Double Murder Charge. Wellington (N.z.)
Charged with the murder of Alice Hamilton and Lloyd Morgan, whose bodies were found at waikano, on April 2, Douglas Herbert Cartman, 22, a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Years' Gaol Law Clerk On 11 Charges Misappropriation, Forgery. Lismore
A sentence of three years' hard labor on each of 11 charges was imposed on Timothy Douglas Sullivan, 42, law clerk, at Lismore Quarter Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dorrigo Twins? Before Ipswich Court Armed Hold-up Alleged
Raymond and Albert Bell, twin brothers, aged 17 years and nine months, from Dorrigo (N.S.W.), were charged at the Ipswich Police Court on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suspected Stolen Rod And Reel Court Case at Coff's Harbor. Coff's Harbor
At the Coff's Harbor Police Court on Monday, James Brown (55) was convicted on a charge of knowingly having in the custody of Lawrence Brown,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →May Lead Labor Mr. Justice Evatt Against Beasley's Party Leaving High Court Bench? Canberra
It was strongly rumored to-night that Mr. Justice Evatt may resign from the High Court Bench to outer Federal politics. He is said to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cowardly Assault
Stewart McNaughton, a man aged between 50 and 60 years, is alleged to have been attacked by a number of men at South Casino whilst on his way…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Medical Benefits In Compensation Claims Supreme Court Ruling. Sydney
In the Supreme Court to-day Mr Justice Maxwell held that medical benefits under the Workers' Compensation Act were not deductable from a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Car Seized By Custom Officer Court Upholds Action. Sydney
The Supreme Court to-day returned a verdict in favor of the New South Wales Collector of Customs in a claim by Mrs. Mary Owens, of Port…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four Japs Charged Sampans in Pearl Harbor. Honolulu
Four Japanese have been held on Grand Jury charges of sailing sampans in a prohibited area in Pearl Harbor, where the fleet is anchored…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →May Day March Communists In Domain Orderly Crowd Pleases Police Sydney
A crowd of about 2000, including 300 from the South Coast and a number from the north, took part in the Communist party's May Day march in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stolen Diamonds Gaol For Mine Manager Sad End to London Leave £15,000 Worth of Gems. London, April 13
"It was a mistake that I did not, go with him to Sierra Leone," declared a 22 year old Englishwoman this week in her home at Harlington,…
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