Life Imprisonment Woman Convicted of Murder. London, Feb. 8
After a trial, at Budapest, lasting several days, Maria Varga was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for life on a charge of…
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Courts & crime, 1930
2,397 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 21 of 120
War Bond Missing. Police Make an Arrest
Following the disappearance of a negotiable War Bond for £1000 from the safe of a Sydney firm of brokers, the police have arrested an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder Charge. Woman's Death at Ashfield, Alleged Illegal Operation. Sydney
At Parramatta Police Court to-day, Susan Robertson, 45, a domestic, was charged with having feloniously murdered Ruta Davis, at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Conspiracy Nine Business Men Charged Case Expected to Last a Week. Sydney
Nine men were charged at the Central Police Court to-day with alleged conspiracy to defraud, in connection with the operating of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Sequel. Raid on Chinese House, Sydney
There was a sequel to a police raid on a Chinese house in Surry Hills during the week-end, when, in the Central Court to-day, three young…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Beeby Award Court on Wednesday. Miners' Officials to Attend Sydney
The officials of the Coal Miners' Federation, and a representative of each district, will leave Syney this evening for Melbourne in Connection…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Riot on Racecourse French Trotting Meet Abandoned. Crowd Brush Police Aside. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Paris
A false start at the Vincennes trotting races led to the worst racecourse riot in Trance for a quarter of a century…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Conspiracy. Nine Men Charged. Sydney
Whon the Cheapley's, Ltd., case was resumed to-day, Charles Owen Law, chartered accountant, stated that under Elliston's guarantee he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Charged. Sequel to Sensational Chase. Sydney
At the Central Court to-day William Charters, [?]1, Alexander Bastible, 26, and Sidney Smith, 21, labourers, were charged with having used a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Theft of Benzine Kearsley Council Complaint Depot Broken Into
At the Kearsley Shire Council meeting yesterday the Health Inspector (Mr. J. G. McG[?]vray) reported that the Kurri Kurri depot had been broken…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Evidence. New Murder Puzzle. Berlin, Feb, 10
The Dusseldorf police are confronted with a new murder puzzle. A 35-year-old balliff had confessed that ten years ago he drugged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Abduction. Local Police Arrest Man
The local police on Sunday received word from Singleton to be on the lookout for an aboriginal and a 17-year-old girl. Sergeant Bisley and First-class…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Years' Gaol Man with a Record. "Dangerous to Public." Sydney
At Parramatta Sessions to-day, Arthur Cummins, 38, a labouror, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in Bathurst Gaol on each of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ordered From Court. Man Demanded Jewellery. Sydney
During the trial of Franz Jagelman, 22, at Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, on a charge of demanding jowellery from Arthur Marshall, two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Muswellbrook Chronicle Tuesday, February 11, 1930. Lonely Motor Car. Found by Local Police
The son of a rich Sydney bookmaker enjoyed an adventure last week. The son was to be sent to school in a northern town; but asuuming command of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Branxton Police Court Wednesday, February 12th. (Before Mr G. F. Nott, P.m.) Charges of Assault
George Chippendale, a minor, was charged with unlawful assault on Oliver Victor Lloyd, a free labourer, employed at North Rothbury. Defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mystery Surrounds Italian's Murder No Motive for Crime. Killed on Station Steps
Mystery shrouds the motive prompting the murder of Dominico Belle, a young Italian, on the steps of Newtown railway station…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Female "Jack the Ripper" Japanese Police Make Arrest. Australian Press Assn. Message.) Shanghai
The Japanese Consular police in conjunction with the international, settlement, arrested the supposedly female "Jack the Ripper."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Story of Rothbury Shooting Norman Brown's Death. Bullet Controversy. Police Side of Fateful Day
The inquest into the death of Norman Lawrence Brown, who was fatally shot at Rothbury on December 16, was continued at the West Maitland Courthouse to-day, by the Maitland District Coroner, Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stealing Charges Young Man Fined
At the West Maitland Police Court to-day, before Mr. M.C. Nott, P.M., Alfred Ernest Murphy, 19, was charged, that having an unlawful…
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