Fewer in Gaol Steady Decrease for Five Years Sydney
During the last five years the number of persons committed to New South Wales prisons has fallen notwithstanding the…
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Courts & crime, 1939
1,886 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 33 of 95
Jury Disagrees Alleged Murder Of Aboriginal CAIRNS
After deliberating for 6½ hours, the jury failed to agree in the trial of Peter Moran and Peter Bulgevoy, 52, on a charge of having murdered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mental Patients Escape From Morisset Police Searching Newcastle
Two police safety patrol trucks, one from Newcastle and the other from Gosford, are searching for two male patients from the Morisset…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Police Action Prevented Serious Breach of Law" Capetown, April 19
The deputy-Premier, General Smuts, introducing in the Assembly the Bill incorporating the South-West police with the Union police, said the despatch of 31 1 police to Suth-west Africa was purely a police measure…
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At the Murrurundi Police Court on Friday last, 14th April, John Alexander May and Alexander Macalister appeared before Messrs. J. Towns…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Singleton District Police Court No Light Allegation Case Dismissed
After hen ring evidence ;it the Police Court the P.M., Mr. J. Johnston, dismissed the information In the case in which Reginald Henry Edmonds was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Committed Burglary to Get Ideas for Book Schoolboys Confession
Committed for trial at the Old Bailey, London, a former public schoolboy last month was alleged to have confessed that he. turned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two for Trial Alleged Assault And Robbery
Charged in Newcastle Police Court with having at Adamstown on April H assaulted Phillip Thomas O'Brien and robbed him of £30, Allan Brook…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Long Distance in Stolen Car Gaol for Year
After stealing a car from Seaforth, near Manly, James Douglas, 23, baker, drove it 2237 miles before it was recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District Court. Oases Adjourned
At the District Court yesterday, before His Honor Judge Nield, the case Attorney-General v. C. A. Bussey, claiming dagames in respect of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boys Honoured Police Appreciation SYDNEY
On behalf of Hie Commissioner of Police, Mr. MacKay, Inspector Keogh presented certificates of appreciation to Reymond Paulson, 15, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Motors Beresfield Collision Court Charge
Mr. C. G, Cart-Boyd, P.M., resumed the hearing at the West Maitland Police Court this afternoon of the charge of negligent…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →French Liner Sinks at Dock Police Suspect Sabotage
Gutted by fire, the French luxury liner Paris, of 34,000 tons, turned turtle and sank at the dockside at Le Havre on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charlie Court Wins Maitland Stake Greyhound Racing
The odds on favourite,. Charlie Court, recorded a comfortable victory in the Maitland Stake, the principal, event at last night's Maitland greyhound meeting, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sequel to Smash Court Case at Branxton BRANXTON
At the Braxton Police Court, before Mr. C. G. Cart-Boyd, P.M., Stanley Francis Smith, of Roderick street, Tamworth, pleaded "Not guilty" to a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Merriwa Man's Petition. Issues Proved. Hearing at District Court
At the District Court sitting at Muswellbrook yesterday His Honor Judge Nield had before him for determination issues remitted from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No Licence Court Sequel To Car Collision SINGLETON
The sequel to a collision .between cars driven by Reggie Richard Dawes and Mr. W. Heuston, on the, corner of Pitt and King streets, Singleton, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dispute Over Lottery Prize Injunction in Equity Court. Sydney
The dispute over a fourth share of £1000, the second prize in the State lottery drawn last Monday, came before the Equity Court to-day, when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Taree Murder Case Sydney
The Court of Griminal Appeal dismissed the appeals of Hairold Percy Smith, 33. roral worker and Matilda And Edwards 31. who are under…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court Action Three Cars Collide Damages Claims
Two claims for damages ana two cross-actions arising from a motor accident on the main road on the West Maitland side of Tester's Hollow, in…
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