Lismore Police Fund
The Lismore Police Fund is now reaching finality. At present the fund stands at £25689, with only a few outstanding promises yet to be received…
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Courts & crime, 1940
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COURT-MARTIAL X-Ray Photographs Trial at Victoria Barracks Sydney
Staff Sergeant John Northwood, Garratt, of the D.M.D.S. staff, was charged before a court-martial at Victoria Barracks to-day, with having on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court Traffic Cases
At the Coff's Harbor Police Court before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P. M., on Friday last, Hubert William John Stride was fined 30 and 8 costs for having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol Escapee Recaptured in Sydney. Sydney
Kenneth Raymond Jones, 20, who escaped from the metropolitan gaol, Coburg, Melbourne, on November 30, was captured by North Sydney police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Girl's Death Youth Detained by Police. Hobart
A youth aged 16 has been detained in connection with the murder of Marie Verrier, 8, whose body was found in a creek near Huon road, on December 6…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Small Debts Court
In the Grafton Small Debts Court yesterday morning before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., the Grafton District Hospital proceeded against Allan Athol…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prosecuted Red Cross Workers Alleged Gaming Breach Countess of Bective Charged Adelaide
The Countess of Bective, and other Adelaide society women, together with Miller, Anderson, Ltd., store proprietors, of Hindley street, city,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fair Rents Court Town Properties Involved Reductions Made
In the Fair Rents Court at Coffs Harbour last Friday afternoon, Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., was asked to assess the rentals of two properties in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A.I.F. DESERTER Found On Torpedoed Ship Now Facing Court-martial Somewhere in England
Military retribution has a long reach and perhaps even longer memory. Now awaiting court-martial in England is a deserter from the A.I.F. who succeeded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Compensation Court Anderson v. Jordon
The Workers' Compensation Commission has delivered its judgment in the case of Archie Adolphus Anderson, Coffs Harbour, versus Allan…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Youth Charged Murder of Young Girl. Hobart
In the Children's Court to-day, a boy of 16 appeared on a charge of having murdered Winifred Marie Verrier, aged eight years. He was remanded until…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plotters Against State Eleven Sentenced in Hungary Budapest
Herr Wirth, an Arrow Cross leader, who was a member of the House of Deputies, was sentenced to 4 12 years' imprisonment and deprived of civil…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Borderline Case" Dismissed by Magistrate. Sydney
The hearing concluded at Paddington Court to-day of the case in which Donald Macdonald, 45, was charged with falsely representing himself as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Men Sentenced In Sydney Prejudicing War Effort. Sydney
Max Thomas, 29, and Horace Ratliff. 46, were at the Central Police Court today sentenced to six months' imprisonment for acting prejudicially to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Traffic Breaches Defendants Before Court
For driving a motor vehicle without a license and for breaking a traffic regulation by "cutting" a corner, Edward Ray Biffin was fined £1 and 8 costs by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Boy's Fall Down Deep Crevice Rescued by Police. Sydney
A 14 years old schoolboy had a remarkable escape from death when he fell 90 feet down a jagged walled crevice at Ben Buckler, Bondi, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court Sits in Cells
Because the defendant possessed no clothes, the Lismore Court was held in the cells of the Lismore police station on Monday. The defendant was a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder Charge Remand On £100 Bail Struggle Alleged. Sydney
Arthur Edward Holley, 28 was remanded on £100 bail at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having murdered Roy Patrick Sharpe,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A.I.F. Moving to Bardia with Thumbs Up N.Z. Drivers Left Wheels to Grab Rifles Charged Into Battle General Wavell Thanks Troops Australians Moving Up. London
Australian units are speedily moving up to join in the battle for Bardia, says Richard McMillan, in a report to the British United Press. The Australian units, he adds, include a large quantity of artillery and many tanks and antiaircraft guns…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →REMANDED To Be Sentenced To-day Two Charges of Stealing
Colin Richard Bradford, who stole a diamond ring and gave it to a girl for Christmas found that he could not evade the long arm of the law when he appeared before Mr. A…
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