Firemen Charged'. Conspiracy to Steal £15,000
John Wilkins, a fireman, aged 28 years, and John Barr, a fireman, aged 25 years. Were charged at the Melbourne Court, with having conspired…
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Courts & crime, 1929
2,983 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 44 of 150
District Court
In the singleton District Court before His Honor Judge White and a jury of four, Robert Myers, of Singleton, sought, to recover…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alfred Ellis Acquitted on Murder Charge
Alfred Wrigley Ellis, aged 52, was at the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, found not guilty on a charge of having murdered his son, Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sorcerer's Victims Where Murder Is a Sport
Administering a country half as large again as England. Where the principal sport of young men is not football, but murder, is no easy…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mail Bag Theft Between Boulogne and Folkestone. London, April 7
Scotland Yard is investigating the theft of a mail bag, the fourth this year, in transit between Boulogne and Flokestone…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Brutal Assault. Man Attacked in Bed. Arrest at Tea Gardens
Brutal injuries were indicted on Lotan Huxley, 63 while he was lying half asleep on a bed at his home, at Tea Gardens, at 2 o'clock on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Missing Girl Police Making Inquiries. Sydney
The police are endcavouring to trace the whereabouts of Madge Louisa Parker, aged 16, who disappeared from her home at Paddington, last Thursday,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Student Riots. Madrid Police Attacked. London, April 12
Reports from the Spanish frontier state that student riots have broken out again. There were hundreds of participants in a battle with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cold-blooded Murder of Elderly Woman. Two Youths Confess. PARIS, April 8
The atrocious murder of an octogenarian, Madame Barry, was re-enacted at the old woman's cottage at Vaucresson, by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Police Chief. Superintendent Childs. Succeeds Mr. J. Mitchell
Metropolitan Superintendent W. H. Childs is to be the new Commissioner of Police. At a meeting of the State Cabinet,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Communists. Conflict with Police. Many Injured. Bucharest, April 8
Twelve Communists were seriously injured and dozens slightly, and 250 were arrested, at Remesyar, where the Communists over-ran the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arbitration. Limitation of Court's Powers. Metal Traders Views
"This country's Governments, through their Arbitration Courts, have effectively 'leg-ironed' local industries," said the president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Court Incident Solicitor and Sergeant of Police. Denial of Statement
Before the business was commenced, at the West Maitland Police Court this morning, the magistrate, Mr. D. W. Reed. P.M., said that he wished…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Holidays
First-class Sergeant Ireland, who has returned from a pleasant vacation, and was to be seen on Friday taking a "busman's holiday," resumed duties…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman Charged Alleged Embezzlement. Sydney
At the Control Police Court to-day, Melda Gearin, 33, lodger keeper, was charged with having fraudulently embezzled 4/ belonging to R. H. Gordon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Attempted Bribery Motor Bus Proprietor Charged. Sydney
At the Central Criminal Court to-day, Michael Fitzgibbons, a motor bus proprietor, was charged with attempted bribery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder Charge Man and Woman Arrested
Following the death in a private hospital at Wangaratta (Vic.), of Amy Violet Laird (24), saleswoman, Detectives McGuffie and McPhee were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Chemist Charged Breach of Poisons Act. Provisions Must Be Complied With
0n Fiday last, Errol George Boyd Boland, manager, of the branch shop of Mr J. G. Lyuch, in John-street, appeared at the Singleton Court, before Mr D. W…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →West Maitland Court Monday, April 15. (Before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.m.), Drunkenness
An offender against sobriety was fine 5/,in default 24 hours' imprisonment. INSUFFICIENT HEADLIGHTS…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TWO MOrE Men Charged. Victim Visits Police
"I'm one of these," stuttered a youth who walked into the Detective Office, City, on Friday. "One of what?" queried a detective…
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