Three Years for Stealing Mail Bag
( Mr Justice Napier sentenced William Ernest Mobs, 38, an engineman, to three years' imprisonment at Adelaide for having stolen a mailbag…
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Courts & crime, 1938
1,824 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 92
Police Raid Newcastle
On Friday night police raided premises known as the B.C.U. Club, Station-street, Waratah, where, a number were and arrested them…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Court Laughed
Heard, in the Maitland District Court. to-day. Mr. Nelson: Isn't it a fact that there is a difference, in the light when…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Treason Trial in Russia 21 Persons to Be Charged. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) MOSCOW
The State Prosecutor, Vyshinksi announces that a Government treason trial will commence before a military tribunal on Thursday of 21…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bomb Outrage Tragedy Still Unsolved Police Appeal Sydney
Renewing his appeal to the public to assist in solving the Lidcombe bomb outrage on January 28, in which Alfred Ernest Smith and his wife,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Great Treason Trial Looms in Russia Soviet Purge Prominent Official Charged Victims of Terrorism Moscow, February 27
The State Prosecutor, M. Vyshinsky, has announced that a great treason trial will commence before a military tribunal on Thursday of 21 prominent persons, says the Riga…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murder Charge Follows Shooting Sensation Fatal Dispute Metal Worker Remands Crowded Courtroom Sydney
The gallery at Parramatta Court to-day was crowded by curious onlookers anxious to catch a glimpse of Eric Alexander Smith, who was charged with having murdered Albert Phillip…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court of Petty Sessions (Before C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.m.) Friday, 25th February. Case of Alleged Cruelty to Horse Dismissed
Frederick Brosi, a drover, of Singleton, was charged with suffering a horse to be ill-treated. Mr C. R. Whitfield appeared for the…
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Three charges were preferred against Edward Hassen (18) in the West Maitland Police Court to-day. Charged with stealing £9/7/6, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stealing Charges Preferred Melbourne
Roy M'Farlane, Matthew Francis O'Keefe, and William Grahame, who were acquitted yesterday on a charge of alleged murder, were to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blind Woman Sent to Gaol "Not Punishment."
Lydia Evans, aged 44, who appeared at the Central Police Court, Sydney, yesterday, on a charge pf vagrancy, said that she was a nursing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Assault On Melbourne Taxi-Man Commons Question London, March 1
The Dominions Secretary, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, in the House of Commons, informed the Communist member, Mr. Gallacher, that he had not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Not Guilty Demsey Murder Case Men Rearrested Melbourne
Informing the jury that it was a, case in which they could not properly come to a verdict of guilty, Mr. Justice Macfarlan directed them to return…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Murder of John Thomas Demsey Verdict of Not Guilty
The case for the defence of the four men who have been charged with the murder of John Thomas Demsey began in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →E.M. GOUNCIL Department Criticised Police Methods
A claim that East Maitland Council and East Maitland police were not receiving a "fair deal" from the Police Department was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Work for Youth Court Approves Plan Apprenticeship Age Ipswich
In the Federal Arbitration Court Judge Beeby approved a variation of the consolidated metal trades award to permit the operation of the New…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Hoard of Gold and Notes Man Charged with Theft
Detectives yesterday arrested a man and charged him with the theft of 300 sovereigns and £100 in bank notes, a total of £700…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →POLICE v. Doctors in Drink Cases Magistrate's Opinion
That the evidence of police officers in drink cases is infinitely better than that of doctors, was the view expressed by Mr Ivan Snell, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Truck Murder
The four men accused of the murder of John Thomas Dempsey in Victoria were acquitted on Tuesday by direction of Mr. Justice Macfarlan…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sent to Gaol Charge of Imposition
Pleading guilty at Newcastle Police Court to a charge of imposition, Harry Johnson (28), labourer, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment…
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