Police Auction Sale
Tho annual auction sale of unclaimed property will be held at the West Maitland Police Station on Saturday next at 10 a.m. There is a varied…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1938
1,824 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 92
Magistrate Makes Order to Oust Councillor Improperly Elected
The requirements of the Local Government Act regarding the filling in of a declaration form accompanying postal ballot papers were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sold Liquor Ex-Jockey in Court SYDNEY
Pearce Garnett, a former jockey, was fined £30 at the Licensing Court to-day on a charge of having sold liquor without a licence. It was stated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Singleton Driver Assists Police in Tragedy Inquiry Statement by Mr E. R. Bailey
In answer to an appeal by Maitland police, who were endeavouring to locate the driver of the lorry involved in the death of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SHOWCAUSE Master of Rodney Court's Finding Sydney
Delivering judgment in the Marine Court to-day into the sinking of the launch Rodney, Judge Markell called upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Murder Case Remanded Accused in Gaol Hospital. Sydney
When the case of Eric Gregory Chatfield, 20, marine steward, charged with the murder of Armour Maltby on March 19, was called at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Windsor Murder
Alfred Spicer, 65, condemned to death for the murder of Marcia Hayes, 6, at Windsor, on Christmas Eve, is in the observation ward at Lour Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Charged with Vagrancy Moral Offence Involved
Lorenzo Fiteni, 31, a labourer, was charged at the Police Court in Brisbane on Wednesday with having had no lawful means of support…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tennis Court
Subject to certain conditions, which include payment of £12 per year total rental, Council decided to offer the four Bennett Park courts to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Assault Heavy Bail for Seaman SYDNEY
Opposing bail for James Benham, 41, a seaman, who was charged with having assaulted a girl, occasioning actual bodily harm. Sergeant Magnay…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Historical Crimes the Murder of Mr. Gold
The discovery of the body of a gentleman, terribly mutilated, in a railway tunnel 18 miles from Brighton, caused Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Murder Charge Accused in Hospital SYDNEY
Eric Gregory Chatfield, 20, a marine steward, who is charged with having murdered Jules Malthy on March 19, is at present a patient in the gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murder Charge Woman for Trial MELBOURNE
As a sequel to the death of Henry Richard Kins. 34. on March 20. the City Coroner committed Isabella Johanson for trial on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Would Like to Meet Him He Minded the Shop
A man for whom Newcastle police are now looking met a Newcastle business man for the first time on Saturday afternoon, called at his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dog and Goat Act. Argument in Criminal Appeals' Court. Sydney
An important question relating to the interpretation of the Dog and Goat Act came before the Court of Criminal Appeals to-day by way of a stated case…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Years' Gaol Robbery With Violence "A Menace" Sydney
Found guilty of robbery, John Degman, 35, was to-day sentenced to three years' imprisonment by Judge Sheridan at the Quarter Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shooting of Dog Law of Justification Court's Decision
One of the questions raised by an appeal before the Court of Criminal Appeal was whether the killing of a dog. pursuant to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hotel Theft Shirt and Coat
On Saturday, March 26, Edward John Thomas Stace (37), wharf labourer, went to a room in a city hotel and stole. In Newcastle Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Industrial Court Case
In the Industrial Magistrate's Court yesterday Mrs. Maude Florence Grice, pastrycook, was proceeded against on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Young Culprit Eluded the Police PERTH
Remanded at the Perth Children's Court on a charge of breaking and entering, a 16-year-old boy eluded a constable after the Court proceedings…
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