Bones Case Hearing Two Men in Court Auckland, April l8
GORDON Robert McKay (43) and James Arthur Talbot (48) appeared in the Police Court today on charges connected with the Piha…
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Courts & crime, 1939
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Speeding on the South Road Warning By Magistrate
PEOPLE are not going to make a speedway of the South-road. The regulation imposing a speed limit of 30 miles…
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In the Dubbo Police Court Albert Andrew Sloss. (61), laborer, was charged on four counts with having in his custody goods reasonably suspected…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sequel to Police Raid on Hotel Licensee And Eight Men Fined
A POLICE raid on the Commercial Hotel on the night of March 10 had its sequel in the Police Court today when the licensee, John Morgan, and eight other men were fined…
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ALLEGATIONS that a young man had carried 190 bottles of beer on a lorry for the purpose of selling at the North mine picnic on April 2 were made by the police in the Police Court-today before Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M…
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CAIRNS — After deliberating for [?] hours the jury failed to agree in the trial of Peter Moran of Peter Bungeboy (52). On a…
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It was recently decided in England that the proprietor of an hotel was legally responsible for the loss by theft of any motor vehicles left in…
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Constable A. W. Cox, who had been stationed at Wilcannia for the past three years, left on Wednesday for Sydney, having been transferred…
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A FORMER stockbroker who declared that his punishment beganwhen he left prison and that "all doors are closed to me," was refused…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—"What do you think I am—a rawboned mug?" Leonard Ernest Ryan, aged 25 yeats, laborer, shouted in the Criminal Coure…
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AFTER seven months in charge of the Broken Hill police district, Inspector J. J. Robinson has been transferred to Armidale. He will…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Decameron" Revived Argument in Court Auckland
A CASE of great interest to booksellers came before Judge Blair in the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday, when…
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Six children appeared before Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., in the Children's Court today charged with throwing stones and pieces of wood in the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.— A remarkable response has been made to the police all for reservists for duty in times of emergency. In less than a…
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WHILE riding a bicycle in Blende-street. North Broken Hill, on Sunday afternoon two boys, aged 11 and 10 years' respectively were allegedly…
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CYRIL ESCOURT (22), wood cutter charged with a triple murder at Grass Creek Hill yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.— Police in cars and on motor cycles rushed to the warehouse of the Peerless Supply Co. Pty. Ltd., Camperdown, at midnight,…
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WHEN the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Mackay) announced at the Police Returned Soldiers Association banquet last night that Mr. E. G…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Magistrate And Solicitor Clash In Court Alleged Theft Of Handbag Case Dismissed
WHEN, a woman declined to give evidence In the Police Court today 'against a man who had been charged with stealing her bag Mr. Collins, S.M., and Mp. J. J. Davoren, who was appearing for the defendant, clashed. The magistrate at one stage told Mr…
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When the application by William Halliday for a six months'suspension of labor conditions on mining lease No. 4423, Parish of Alma, County…
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