"Portia" for Neighbors County Court Surprise
Barristers and solicitors at Brentford County Court were amazed when Mrs. Ruth Harris, a young mother, of Hartington Road; Feltham,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1940
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Dress Show in Court Hartnell Model In Dispute
Two dresses Were displayed on dummies in Westminster County Court when a dispute over a thirty four guinea dinner dress came before…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Judge Stacy Hears Remitted Issues In Divorce Court Dobbie v. Dobbie
JUDGE STACY today found the issues proved in several remitted issues in the Matrimonal Causes Juritdiction for hearing in the District Court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Contractor Non-Suited In District Court
RULING that no contract had been entered into Judge Stacy, in the District Court today, non-suited a building contractor, who claimed £17/8/4, the alleged balance of a contract…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mopping Up In Norway Final Assault Ott Narvik Lasted For 24 Hours British in Control (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, May 30
MOPPING up operations by the Allies, are proceeding along the railway from Narvik and south of Narvik. Eye witnesses' accounts state that the Allies' final assault on Narvik, the iron ore port in northern Norway, which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Electrician Charged Under Secrets Section of Crimes Act Sydney
At the Queanbeyan Police Court on Saturday, George James Caldwell (24), electrical mechanic, was charged under the Secrets Section of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Baby in Long Bqy Gaol with Mother Former Governor Critical SYDNEY
FR. George F. Smith, former governor, of the Goulburn Gaol, commenting on the report that a sixmonths old baby girl had gone with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Not Guilty of Murder Crown Tells Of Act Of Provocation SYDNEY,Monday
WHEN Esau Henry Curran (69), old age pensioner, was charged at the Centrai Criminal Court today with having murdered Michael James…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stop Press Six Months Gaol for Helping Comms
CANBERRA,George James Caldwell, Government printing offical employee, was sentenced to six months hard labor for attempting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bicycles at Railway Town Police Station
Constable E. Richards, officer in charge at the Railway Town Police Station, has two bicycles and a bicycle frame at the police station awaiting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Six Months' Gaol Released Secret Information CANBERRA
"GOVERNMENT of the country would become impossible if this sort of thing were allowed to continue."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court Martial of Officer Went Away Unfit SYDNEY
AT a general court martial held at Papakura military camp near Auckland, Capt. E. C. M. Robinson was charged with having gone…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prefers Gaol to Paying Fine
SYDNEY, Thursday— A young woman in the Traffic Court, said that she would go to gaol for three days and pay her fine to the Lord Mayor's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Killed Father; 3 Years' Gaol
SYDNEY, Thursday— In the Central Criminal Court Patrick Gavin (17) was sentenced to three years' imprisonment on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sentenced To Death LONDON, June 5
Udham Singh, the 37-year-old Indian who hot Sir Michael O'Dwyer on March 13 at the Caxton Hall London, was today, found: guilty of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Stewart Lodge of Foresters
The fortnightly meeting of the Ancient Order of Foresters, Court Stewart branch, was held in Tait's Lodge room on Tuesday last. CR. Bro. G…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court Trio Enlist Send-Off Last Night
THREE members of the Court house staff who have enlisted two in the A.I.F. and one in the Air Force were given a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lad Concocts Hold-up Story Admission In Court ADELAIDE. Saturday
A youth of 15 was said in the Children's Court yesterday to have admitted having thrown a cash bag into the Torrens and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Assault on Constable Watchman on Four Charges
THE story of an alleged assault on him by a man whom he was attempting to remove from the Gas Works Hotel on Saturday was told to Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., by Constable Murray, of Railway Town, in the Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Ball on July 16
Preparations for the annual Police Hospital carnival ball are well in hand, report the secretary and president, Constables A. Ashton and…
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