Released on Bail Schmidt Rearrested Charged Under Aliens Act. Sydney
Released on £200. bail from Long Bay gaol to-night Joseph Schmidt, or Yackels, 47, was immediately rearrested by the Commonwealth…
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Courts & crime, 1940
680 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 34
Daring Theft
A daring theft was committed at C. Bower's garage at Muswellbrook. A wallet containing £15 was taken from a cash register. Mr. Bower was at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder Charge Woman Found Not Guilty. Sydney
Violet Muller, 33, was found not guilty at the Criminal Court to-day of the murder of John Scholey Ritchie, 42, military pensioner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Six Months' Gaol For Starting Bush Fire Boiled His Billy. Melbourne
Alleged to have lit a fire which swept across 500,000 acres of country from Mortlake to Camperdown, and caused £50,000 worth of damage, James…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →College of Crime Prisoner's View Of Gaol Judge on Boys' Homes. Sydney
Judge Hill,at the Quarter Sessions to-day, said that from his experience in the courts incarceration in boys' homes such as those at Gosford and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coff's Harbor Court Of Petty Sessions Weeds on Banana Plantation
James I. Graham, fruit inspector, proceeded against Charles W. Nelson in Coff's Harbor Court, before Mr. A. J. Bryant, on a charge of having failed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attempted Stealing a Youth's Lapse
At Coffs Police Court on Saturday last Ross Terence Donnelly (19) was charged with attempting to steal money, the property of John…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shooting Charge Painter Remanded Previously Sentenced. Sydney
On a charge of having shot at George White, with intent to murder him, Edward Riley Sexton, 59, painter, was remanded until March 29, in Paddington…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cases Adjourned Industrial Court Breaches of Award
In the Grafton Industrial Court yesterday morning, before Mr. A. J. Bryant, Industrial Magistrate, nine cases were adjourned until April 1…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cafe Shooting Two On Murder Charge Evidence at Inquest Sydney
Leslie Ernest Kennedy was some thing like the man who fired a shot at Alexander Robert Henry Miller during. a disturbance at the Covent Garden…
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With shotgun wounds in their heads John Aitcheson Brown, 49, and his wife, Myrtle, 45, were found dead in the front of their small home at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Major Conder In Bankruptcy Court FORMER A.B.C. Manager. Melbourne
A former general manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, on a salary of £2000 a year, and Governor of Pentridge Prison, Melbourne,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cafe Murder Clerk Committed for Trial Sydney
The City Coroner, Mr. Oram, to-day committed Leslie Ernest Kennedy, 27, clerk, for trial on a charge of having murdered Alexander Robert Henry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Go Back to Court To Settle Coal Strike No Special Tribunal. Sydney
The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, reiterated to-day that the Commonwealth Government would, not appoint a special tribunal to deal with the coal strike and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Escapee Charged with Car Theft. Sydney
Thomas Albert Williams, 21, one of two men who, according to the police escaped from Campsie police station on Tuesday night, came before the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District Court Sittings At Bellingen Alleged Assault
His Honor Judge Storkey, sitting at Bellingen on Thursday last, 14th inst.,heard an action for damages for assault brought by Joseph Samuel…
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Lismore police are searching for two 400-gallon tanks, which have been stolen from railway property between Tuncester and Leycester. Both tanks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£2000 Robbery Man---young Woman Sentenced In Sydney Stealing and Receiving Sydney
Alfred Minden, 37, salesman, was at one time engaged to three girls and was keeping company with a fourth, according to the police, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kept Hat on Indian In Court Murder of Sir M. O'dwyer. London
Without even, bothering lo remove his hat, Mahomed Singh Azad, who has been charged with the murder of Sir Michael O'Dwyer, former…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Oil Depot Fire Police Making Investigations, Melbourne
Although there is no suggestion of sabotage, detectives and military officers are investigating the result of a fire at the Vacuum Oil Company…
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