Drunken Motor Car Driver Sentenced to Month's Hard Labour
At the Central Police Court, Sydney, yesterday, Gerald Broeklehurst, aged 30, was sentenced to a Month hard labour for having driven while drunk…
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Courts & crime, 1930
2,397 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 36 of 120
Charge of Murder. Jury Fails to Agree. Sydney
The jury failed to agree in the case in which William Ralph, 37, a labourer, was charged at the Central Criminal Court, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrongful Imprisonment Damages Awarded Against Police Sergeant
In the Queanbeyan District Court yesterday, Victor Samuels proceeded against Sergeant James Richmond Sheppard, police officer, stationed at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strangulation. Alleged at Murder Trial. Expert Evidence. London, March 18
Exhibiting a coloured model of the throat, mouth and tongue, Sir Bernard Spilsbury demonstrated to the Court to-day at the Fox murder…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tell-tale Finger Prints Crime Traced to Police Sergeant. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Budapest
The police had reached a dead-end in their investigation of the burgling of Szalonta Post Office, and the wounding of the 65-year-old postmistress and her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kurri Police Court Fruit Stealing Cases
Two youths, Ernest Moran and clarence Kennewell, were charged at the Kurri Kurri Police Court, before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., with having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Wife Murder Britten Before the Court. Tamworth
James Jeffries Britten was brought before the Tamworth Court this morning and charged with the murder of this wife at her home on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Girl Seized Melbourne Sensation. Story to Police. MELBOURNE
The alleged kidnapping of a girl in a street on Tuesday night had a sequal to-day, when it transpired that the girl left the car after it…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Warden's Court. (Before Warden Graham). Black Hill Inquiries
Warden A. N. Graham presided at the Warden's Court at the East Maitland Courthouse to-day. An inquiry was held under Section…
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The Police Court was then opened, before Mr. W. C. Geikie, P.M., and Charles Jeffries Britten, aged 50, was charged with the murder of Henrietta…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder Charge Against Boy Soldier Lady Magistrate Remands. Tragedy in Barracks
Gazingly keenly in the direction of the lady magistrate at Maryhill, Glasgow, a boy-soldier in the dock blushed deeply as a police official road a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol Escapee Ruse Explained
Leonard Stanley Stanford, aged 20, Who escaped from Long Bay Penitentiary while serving a sentece of two months, appeared before Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For Trial Postal Clerk Charged
At the Campsie Police Court, Leo Bode Cornish, 30, a postal clerk, was committed for trial on a charge of having made use of £12, which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Burglary at Blacktown £200 Stolen From Council Chambers. Sydney
The safe at Blacktown Council Chambers was blown early this morning, and cracksmen got away with about £200. They tried to open the door of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Car in River. Story of Assault. Sydney
David Greenwald told a remarkable story to the police to-day. He said that while waiting for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Senators Quarrel Aggressor Fined for Assault. Capetown, March 19
Senator Roydell was fined £10 for Assaulting Senator Marwick, the member for Illove in the Senate, Senator Marwick criticised Senator…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gaol for Life. After Killing Three. Vienna, March 20
Newmayer, who was charged with the murder of his brother and two cyclist strangers, who were electrocuted by a high tension electric wire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dungog Police Court (Before Messrs. S. N. Dark and J. T. Williams, J.'s.P
At Dungog Police Court on Thursday morning Harold McPherson, 42, a widower residing in Dungog, was charged with breaking and entering…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tragedy at Tamworth C. J. Britten Arrested on Murder Charge
Mrs Marion Britten, aged 45, a member of a well-known Tamworth family, was fatally wounded in a shooting affray at her home on Wednesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Cop That." Bernard Dalton's Death. Charge of Murder. Sydney
There was again a large crowd outside the Central Criminal Court to-day when the trial of Frank Green, 25, on a charge of murdering…
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