Matson Boy Kidnapped. Ex-convict Held by Police. Noyes (Minnesota)
The Federal agents disclosed to-day that they are holding an ex-convict, Stanislaus Poracki, for questioning in connection with the kidnapping of the…
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Courts & crime, 1937
1,630 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 82
Alleged Breaking and Entering Kearsley Post Office Case Evidence at Cessnock Court
Hearing of the case in which Thomas James Linnertson, 23 was charged with breaking and entering the Kearsley Post…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stealing Trees Two Men Fined NEWCASTLE
Proceeded against under the C[?] Act for stealing parts of trees from the Scottish-Australian Mining Co,'s estate at Lam[?] two men [?] guilty in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Theft of Company's Funds Man Committed for Trial
Bernard Sydney Armstrong, aged 3l, was committed for trial at the Central Court, Sydney, on Monday, on a charge of having, in 1936, as a servant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tank Charged with Electricity Man Electrocuted at Guyra Guyra
William Woodward, a skin dealer, was electrocuted when he turned on the tap of a water tank at his home. The tank had been charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appeals by Police Officers Hearing Adjourned Sydney
When the Police Appeals Court today resumed, hearing of the appeals by police officers, Mr. Watt, K.C., for the appelants, announced that the officers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHALLENGED! Powers of the Board Police Appeals Sydney
When the Police Appeal Board sat to-day to announce wheather or not it had power to hear the appeals of police officers who were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Unusual Application in Small Debts Court Damages Sought
While seated on a rock at Bradley's Head on October 17, Irene Alfonso, of Northbridge, was struck on the back by a 681b. cannon ball which had rolled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Search for Gunman Body Found on Vacant Allotment Brisbane
The police search for a gunman who wounded a man and a woman at Millmerran last night, ended to-day with the finding of the man's body on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Raymond Terrace Police Court
On Friday, January 29, before Mr. Carr-Boyd, P. M., a local resident, charged by Newcastle Police was fined £1 and 8/ costs for having an inefficient…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Timber Theft Man Fined £5 NEWCASTLE
At nine o'clock last night, Alfred Wilbraham, (28) seaman, was seen taking timber from the B.H.P. Steel works anrd was arrested…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Charged Goods In Possession CESSNOCK
Thomas Mills, 24 of 87 Congewal-street Aberdara, was charged at Cessnock Court, to-day before MR. F. R. Wood, J.P., with having in his…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Air Piracy Daring 'Plane Theft Off to Spain Paris, February 10
Three unknown men, one of them apparently a pilot, stole an aeroplane from the Le Bourget aerodrome…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wife's Anxiety. Missing Weston Man Police Search
While they were on Newcastle beach last Saturday afternoon, Thomas C. Dixon, a miner, of Main-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pervert Sentenced to Gaol and Lash
Sentence of three years' imprisonment and two lashings, each, of 10 strokes, was imposed on John William O'Leary, aged 38, by Mr. Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Scone Police Court
Mr. G. J. Johnston occupied the Bench at the Scone Police Court on Wednesday last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stealing Charge
Police v. John T. Green, alias Thomas Green, alias William Cunneen, alias Frederick John Willis, on a charge of stealing one waistcoat, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Denny Day. Early Police Magistrate. Tales of Bushranging Around Muswellbrook
The 1936 edition of the journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society contains an interesting story concerning Captain Edward Denny Day,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Years' Imprisonment. Solicitor Sentenced. Sydney
Alexander Stanley Gourlay (48), solicitor, who who pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions yesterday to 24 charges, involving misappropriation of £2800,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton Police Court (Before Mr C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M)
There was a fairly long list of cases for hearing at yesteday's Court of Petty Sessions, and a number of cases were postponed or adjourned until later…
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