Circuit Court Adjourned
The Circuit Court was opened and adjourned at the Courthouse today. Only the Sheriff's Officer (Mr. A. C. Connell) and the Deputy Sheriff (Mr…
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Courts & crime, 1939
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Notes May Provide Police with Clues
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Notes written in pencil may provide the police with important clues in their inquiries into the murder of Robert James Anderson…
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AN allegation that illicit relations had existed between a farm laborer and a married woman were made at the Central Criminal Court today at their trial on a charge of the murder of the woman's husband. The…
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THERE was a distressing scene in the Central Criminal Court today when Edith Matilda Edwards (12), sobbing bitterly gave evidence at the trial of her mother on a charge of the murder of her father. Matilda Ann Edwards (31) and Harold…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—[?] get you for this, you see if I don't," cried Sadie Ryan, aged 41 years, of no fixed address, from the City Court…
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LONDON, March 21.— At the Birmingbam Assizes Thomas Magill (21) and Robert McCann (23) were each sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Eric Kelly (26), laborer, appeared in the Central Court- today on a charge of having on March 20 shot at Nathan Segal…
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"ONE of the meanest and most contemptible crimes" was the description applied by Mr. Ryan, P.M., to a charge against Gerald Lorraine…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Detectives, who are endeavoring to solve the mysterious murder of Robert James Anderson (22) in a hotel basement…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Questioned in the Legislative Assembly the Chief Secretary (Mr. Gollan) admitted that in recent weeks there had been an…
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MEMBERS of the State Government are considerably concerned at reports which have reached…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dramatic Scene Zealand Court In New Accused Denies He Is McKay Remanded on Two Charges; No Bail in One Case (Continued from Page 1) Auckland (N.z;), March 23
ADRAMATIC scene was witnessed in the Auckland Police Court today when Gordon Robert McKay, alias Tom Bowland, whose age was not given on the charge sheet, but who was described as having no fixed…
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Because of washaways on the Sydney line Mr. Justice Milner Stephen, who will preside at the sittings of the Circuit Court on…
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The police applied today for a warrant for the arrest of John Woolcott Forbes, of Sydney, who is on bail on a charge of having conspired to…
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BECAUSB a police witness had been unable to reach Broken Hill from Sydney owing to the washaways on the railway line. Mr. A. B…
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Circuit Court civil jurors will not be required to attend the sittings of the Supreme Court which open at the Courthouse tomorrow…
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There was great public interest in the trial of a man and three women today, and the public gallery at the Quarter Sessions was crowded. The…
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Johanna Hofmann, the red-headed girl of 26 who spied for Germany in the United States, sobbed bitterly as she was sentenced in New York to…
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IN the Criminal Court last night Emanuel Roy Wright (29), formerly chauffeur at Government House, was found guilty of having…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. The salary of the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Mackay) has been increased by the State Cabinet from £1771 to £2000 a…
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