Seven Years' Gaol Explosives In Possession LONDON, March 1
A sentence of seven years' imprisonment was imposed on Timothy Dacey, a 30-year-old cycle dealer," for possessing explosives…
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Courts & crime, 1939
1,886 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 17 of 95
Police Chief in Smash Narrow Escape From Drowning SYDNEY
The Police Commissioner, Mr. MacKay, and two friends, had a narrow escape from drowning last night. It appears that he and his…
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A strange drama of love, spiced with a long bitterness, was unfolded when an assault case was heard before Mr. R. Soiling, P.M.,…
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In the Sydney Quarter Sessions Stella Daphne Garfield Tait, 38, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for fraudulently misappropriating…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News of the Day Driver Charged
ARRESTED in Parallel-st., West Maitland, late yesterday afternoon an out-of-town resident, was charged with having driven a motor car while…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Signs for Police Cars
Police cars on traffic patrol work in the London area will soon be fitted with fixed illuminated signs. This, says a London motoring…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Honeymoon Murder (Copyright) CHAPTER I.—(Continued.)
"Thank Heaven for that," and Maiden laughed. "It relieves me of a lot of responsibility. I hate to talk!" Listen to him," exclaimed Tony…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Years for Illegal Use of Cars Magistrate Says Borstal System Is Needed
When imposing sentence on Walter Blake Myers, 19 at the Central Police Court, Sydney, on Wednesday, Mr Arnold, S.M., urged the introduction…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Traffic Patrol for Muswellbrook Radio Equipped
Details in connection with the decision of the Police Department to make available a police patrol vehicle for the Muswellbrook district have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woman Ill Police and Ambulance Co-operate Appendicitis Case
Ambulance officers and police co-operated last night to take an ailing woman from the Maitland Show. The woman was a visitor from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Commissioner of Police Escapes Drowning Launch Sinks on Hawkesbury River
When his launch snak after colliding with another craft at Kangaroo Point on the Hawkesbury River on Wednesday night, the Commissioner…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N.Z. MYSTERY Sydney Man's Death Police Inquiries Auckland
The New Zealand police have communicated with the Californian authorities requesting them to interview a man who left Auckland for America…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stood in Nude Traveller Sentenced To Three Months
At the North Sydney Police Court yesterday, Buck Smith, a traveller, was sentenced to three months, with hard labour, because it was alleged he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Had Cocaine Eighteen Months' Gaol SYDNEY
A sentence of 18 months imprisonment was imposed on William Davis (52), labourer, at Central Court, on a charge of having had cocaine in his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy Shot Dead Horticulturist Sent To Gaol MELBOURNE
Henry Bray, 53, of Red Cliffs, a horticulturist, who had shot dead a 10-year-old boy, Bruce Williamson, was sentenced to nine months'…
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Ellen Lovell was a fine looking woman. Not only her serene, beautiful face attracted attention, but her graceful manner and especially her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Snakes In Tennis Court MANILLA
Attracted by peculiar tracks in the store shed at Manilla tennis courts, the caretaker (Mr. W. Hughes) set a rat trap. Next…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. Thos. Kendall Former Inspector Of Police Dead
Former Police Inspector Thomas Kendall, whose death has occurred at his home in Rose Bay, was 84 years of age. He was born in England in l854,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gaol for Nude Sunbaker
Alleged to have stood on a verandah in the nude, Buck Smith, a traveller, was sentenced to three months' hard labour at North Sydney Court…
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Perilla Fairfax and Corey Maiden are to be married the next, day at Lovell Terrace, the Long Island summer home of John Lovell, her…
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