Six Months Gaol Bogus Naval Officer Masquerade at Woy Woy. Sydney
Anthony Campbell Dreyer, 40, ship's engineer, was at Paddington Police Court to-day, sentenced to six months imprisonment for having impersonated…
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Courts & crime, 1940
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Stolen Safe Recovered by Police Diver. Sydney
With its contents intact a safe which was stolen from Schofield Post Office last Thursday was recovered by a notice diver in Cattai Creek, near…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Licensing Court Two Hotels Transferred South Grafton and Newton Boyd
In the Licensing Court, held at the Grafton Courthouse on Saturday morning, before Mr A. J. Byrant, Licensing Magistrate, William Henry Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hundreds Watch A.I.F.--Police Fight Three Soldiers Arrested. Sydney
Hundreds of people completely blocked traffic in George street, Hay market, last night to watch police and soldiers fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fair Rents Court Hearing At Coff's Harbor Rent of High Street Shop Reduced
Before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., at Coff's Harbor on Friday last, Sampson Palmer and Thomas James Roderick, trading as Blow's, applied to the court,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Banana Grower Fined Inspector's Instructions Ignored Coff's Harbor Police Court
At Coff's Harbor Police Court on Friday, February 16, before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., Arthur G. Loader was charged with failing to treat and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£30 in Fines Lismore Police Raid Thirty-one Men Before Court. Lismore
Fines totalling £30 were imposed by Mr. W. J. McElroy, P.M., in the Lismore Court to-day, as a sequel to a notice raid on premises in. Magellan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bankruptcy Court Public Examination
In the Bankruptcy Court held at the Grafton Courthouse yesterday before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., Richard William Robinson was publicly examined…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coramba Court of Petty Sessions
At the Coramba Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. A. J. Bryant P.M., Richard Teeling, of Lowanna: pleaded guilty to a charge of removing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Poison Plot At Brisbane Gaol Plan to Kill Warder and Escape. Brisbane
An attempt to smuggle cyanide into Boggo Road Gaol on February 12 to poison a warder has been revealed, state the prison authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fair Rents Court Coffs Harbour Case
A simple formula is laid down in the new Pair Rents Act for the fixing of rents by the Magistrate hearing such cases. His first duty is to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BANKRUPT Three Police Officers Sequel to Court Verdicts. Sydney
Detective Sergeant Lawrence Dimmock, Detective Constable John William Law, and Constable William Samuel Watt Tyler were examined…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →S.M. Caustic 'Like Film Gangsterism' Man Sent To Gaol Attack on Press Photographer Sydney
A case in which persons prominent in the Sydney newspaper industry were the principals drew sharp comment from Mr. Scobie, S.M., at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Big Business" Lands Man in Gaol
Some local business places looked to be in the way of big business during the past several days, but the transactions landed a man in gaol on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aided Foreign Power Britisher Sentenced in Stockholm. Stockholm
D. W. Beach, a leading British resident and sportsman, was sentenced to four years' imprisonment on a charge of having obtained and divulged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Strange Behaviour Vagrant. At Coff's Harbor Negotlating for £240 Car Defendant Sent to Gaol. Coff's Harbor
On Thursday morning at coff's Harbor Police Court Harry Eather, aged 25 years, was charged as an idle and disorderly person having no visible…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Altmark Affair Court of Inquiry Opened. Oslo
The Court of Inquiry into the Altmark affair opened with the British and French Consuls present. The main witnesses were the Norwegian naval officers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Car Burnt Occupants' Narrow Escape Theft in Broad Daylight
Mr. Jack Grimmond, manager of Raymond's Whiteway Garage, Coffs Harbour, had his sedan car practically new destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Defendant Fined Police Played Billiards Not Members of Club
For keeping billiard tables on unlicensed premises Carlyle Daniels, of Grafton, was fined £3 and 8 costs in default seven days' hard labor, before…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Claim for Rent Set-Off Pleaded Dispute Over Farm Tenancy Small Debts Court at Grafton
Before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., at I the Grafton Small Debts Court, held at the Grafton Courthouse on Monday, Leonard Cheers Lawson sued Emil…
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