Confidence Trickster Caught Sentenced to Six Months
George Harrison, 39, dealer, was charged at the Central Police Court, Sydney, with stealing £8 from Gerald Snell. Evidence was given that…
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Courts & crime, 1934
2,178 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 109
In Cathedral Thieves Sentenced Had Guns Sydney
At the Central Police Court a remarkable story concerning the story of two men in St. Mary's, Basilica, was told…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brutal Assault "Was Unprovoked" Man Gaoled Newcastle
For what Judge Nelld termed "an unprovoked and brutal assault" Patrick Kelleher (31), labourer, found guilty of assault occasioning actual…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Skin Stealing Case Dismissed. No Evidence to Offer
At the Murrurundi Police Court on Thursday of last week, a somewhat sensational charge against Robert E. McInnes and Robert Curtis of stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →More Bloodshed. Riots, Pillage and Murder. Kalgoolie
Riots, pillage and murder broke out again 011 Wednesday at both Kalgoolio and Boulder, as the miners, consumed with a flood of hatred and fury, swept…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Film Scene Taken in Court
Considerable excitement was caused at the Darlinghurst, Sydney, Criminal Courts the other day when, during the hearing of a case in which Dr. Everard,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murder of Prospectors by Aboriginals Speared First, Then Chopped Up
The story of the killing of the two white prospectors, Adolph Koch and Stephen Arinski, at the Fitzmaurice River, by aborigines during November,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kalgoorlie and Boulder Quiet Hostile Crowd Watches Police Demonstration
Though there was no continuance of the mob riots at Boulder and Kalgoorlie yesterday, a lurthcr batch of 200 police armed with a machine-gun, hand…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Canberra's First Supreme Court Judge Mr Justice Lukin Sworn In
Mr Justice Lukin was sworn in by tho Governer-General (Sir Isaac Isaacs), as the first Judge of the Supreme Court in the Federal Capital Territory. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Narrow Escape Charged by Cow WINGHAM
During the progress or the usual fortnightly Wingham cattle sales, Mr. L. J. Gloeson (Deputy Mayor of Wingham), while engaged in his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Girl Robbed Brutal Thieves Police on Track Sydney
Savagely attacked a few yards from her home last night, Doreen Christie, of Homebush, had her bag containing £2 snatched by two men who crept…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shot Dead Four Communists Police Attacked Berlin, Feb. 2
Following their escape from a police van, proceeding to Poto- dam from Berlin, four well-known Communists were shot dead,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →West Riots Search for Culprits Police Active Kalgoorlie
So far the efforts or the police to identify those responsible for two deaths and damage done during the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charge of Murder Head Struck Road
Laurence Hurst, 40, a shearer who was taken to the Melbourne Hospital on Saturday morning, suffering from a fractured skull, and who it is stated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →House Robber Sentenced Used Woman to Keep Watch. Sydney
At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Theodore Hendy, aged 28, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for a series of house robberies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Thefts Three Men Charged Bound Over Newcastle
Pleading guilty in the police court to-day to three charges of wool theft, Morr[?] Melville Henderson, 24, clerk, Ronald Francis…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woodville Farm Question of Possession Court's Order
An application for a postponement of date of possession of property at Wodville was made by William Clive Powell at the West Maitland Court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man's Eventful Story Case Before Newcastle Court
The story of a man's eventful climb to fame and his subsequent fall was told by Mr H. L. O'Neill at the Newcastle Police Court when he pleaded on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Years' Gaol
Five years' imprisonment was imposed by Judge Winnoke, In' the General Sessions to-day, on Edward Allan May, 37, for having help-up and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Arrests in Basilica. Two Men Sentenced
A remarkable story concerning the arrest of two men in St. Mary's Basilica on January 25 was told at the Central Police Court…
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