Alleged Assault in Hotel Man Acquitted
John Joseph Finnie, 32, labourer, was acquitted by a jury in Quarter Sessions before Judge Sheridan, in Sydney on Wednesday, of a charge of…
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Courts & crime, 1938
1,824 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 92
Licensing Court
Application was made by Edward Walter Howell for the transfer of the Willow Tree Hotel (Scone) license from Samuel F. Doyle. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Small Debts Court
In the Small Debts Court Keith Harvey Grieve sought to recover from F. Teague the sum of £13/13/ for medical services rendered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court of Marine Inquiry Collision with Liner
The Court of Marine Inquiry found that the trawler Durraween was to blame for the collision which occurred between that vessel and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wed in Court Parties to Affiliation Case
Mr Alwyn Schroder, Magistrate of the Children's Court, at Perth, provided 10/ from the benevolent fund to buy a ring so that a young couple…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Five Years' Gaol Killed Half-Caste MELBOURNE
Found guilty by a jury in the Criminal Court of the manslaughter of James Melbourne, 61, a half-caste aboriginal, George Moore, 60, a shearer,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shearer Sentenced Melbourne
George Thomas Moore, 60, a shearer, of Tope-street, South Melbourne, who was convicted of the manslaughter of James Edward Melbourne,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →70,000 DEAD Rebel Success at Teruel Desperate Assault London. February 20
The "Daily Telegraph" Saragossa correspondent says that the Rebel success at Teruel was far-reaching, resulting in the complete rout of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Truck Tragedy Four Men Charged Court Crowded Melbourne
A large crowd was present in the Criminal Court to-day at the resumption of the Demsey murder trial. The four men charged with having…
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In the West Maitland Police Court to-day, Archie Maynard (36), Gordon Wallace Peak (21), and Robert Perran (46), were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →70,000 Dead. Rebel Success at Teruel. Desperate Assault
The "Daily Telegraph" Saragossa correspondent says that the Rebel success at Teruel was far-reaching, resulting in the complete rout of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jumped Rattler Sequel Told in Court
After being discharged from Maitland Hospital only yesterday, Athol James Lennox (24), appeared at the West Maitland Police Court to-day to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murder Charge Death of Truck Driver Four Men on Trial Melbourne
The trial commenced at the Criminal Court of four men on a charge of having murdered John Thomas Demsey. The accused are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Menaces Ex-Constable in Court SYDNEY
Douglas Frank Weaver (30), who had been eight years in the Police Force, and until last year had been on plain clothes duty at Manly,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Murray Court Selected. Expected to Win 14.2 Handicap. Sally Gold and Caroline Good Place Pets
It is a long time since so many good ponies as those which have accepted for V.P. to-morrow have been seen in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Committed on Assault Charge
At Wollongong Police Court Eric Reginald May, aged 27, paneltaeater, was committed for trial on a charge of assault, occasioning actual bodily…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wages Tax Ex-Secretary Charged Use of Stamps
A charge of having failed to affix unemployment relief tax Stamps to wages books was preferred in West Maitland Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder of Truck Driver Four Men on Trial
The empanelling of a jury at the trial of four men on a charge of having murdered John Thomas Demsey took three hours at the Criminal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrorism in Palestine Special Police Recruitment
As a reprisal for the murder of Squadron-leader R. A. Alderson, who was killed when a volley was fired into a Jewish taxi in which he was a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tax Tangle Appeal to High Court SYDNEY
Notice of appeal was lodged in the High Court at Sydney against a recent decision of Mr. E. J. Harrison, S.M., the effect of which was that…
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