Price of Bottled Beer "Too High," Says Magistrate
The opinion that the hotels were charging an excessive price for bottled liquor and that there should be some legal competition was expressed…
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Courts & crime, 1939
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Charged with False Pretences a Singular Case. Sydney
At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Clifford Ralph Hagan, 37, salesman, was charged with false pretences. The Crown alleged that while an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Dies After Attack in Street Two Brothers Charged
Two brothers have been charged with manslaughter following the death of a man who is said to have been attacked on his way home from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bigamy Case Deceived Three Women Three Years' Gaol Sydney
At the Quarter Sessions to-day Eric Matthew Homer, 32, a can-tractor, who had pleaded guilty to bigamy, was sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boy Killed and Three Injured at Mayfield Man Arrested and Charged
A 16-year-old boy was killed, another boy, aged 14, and two women were injured in a road smash near the intersection of Maitland-road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unusual Story Believed by BencK Man in Court
A young man with extensive scars about the head, appeared in the West Maitland Police Court to-day to answer a charge of having…
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On Friday last, David Edward Brown, appeared in the Gloucester Police Court and pleaded guilty before Messrs. Thomas and Newton…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tax Evasion. Political Overlord Sentenced. New York
The political overlord of Kansas State, Mr. Tom Pendergast, was sentenced to 15 months in a Federal prison for evading 443,000 dollars'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drunken Driver "Youngest Soldier" Charged Appeal Advised
Said to have been one of the youngest men to enlist in the Great War, Herbert Daniel Moore (39), pipelayer, pleaded guilty in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charge and Counter-charge Mount View Assault Case
Amongst the matters dealt with by Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at Cessnock Court yesterday, was a case in which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Forged Admission Tickets. Printer and Laborer Charged. Sydney
At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Joseph Michael Cody (50), printer, pleaded guilty to forgery, and Richard Abel (46), laborer, to having uttered a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy Killed and Three Injured at Mayfield Man Arrested and Charged
A 16-year-old boy was killed, another boy, aged 14, and two women were injured in a road smash near the intersection of Maitland-road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bushfire Victim Fined at Maitland Court
A charge that the Maitland Pastures Protection Board was hampering a victim of the Victorian bushfires in earning an honest living was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Walked on to Stage During Performance. "Tried to Embrace Star." Man Charged; Remanded for Observation. Sydney
A man who gave the name of Frank Murray Hughes (47), of Victoria, was charged before a magistrate at the Reception House to-day with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Sequel Motor Accident At Tester's Hollow Three Charges
A car and two motor cycles were involved in an accident at Tester's Hollow, near East Greta, shortly after midnight on March…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Cadets and Alsatian Dogs. to Search for Missing Men. Sydney
Two men, Douglas Duke and Verner Tuckwell, who have been lost in the bush near Bowral since Sunday last in heavily-timbered country, have not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charge of Stealing £240
Herbert Bence Wood was charged at the Central Police Court, Sydney, with stealing £240 from Aubrey Sara on or about March 27. By consent the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motorist Sent to Gaol Five Traffic Breaches
Two months' imprisonment, fines totalling £32, and disqualification from holding a licence for 10 years, were the penalties imposed on David…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Impressing the Police
A woman driving her car in Paris went past a traffic stop and was duly pulled up by the man on point duty, who enquired, "Did you not see the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Two Years' Gaol "Mean, Contemptible Fraud" SYDNEY
At the conclusion of the hearing of evidence, Clifford Robert Hagan, 37, a salesman, was convicted by a jury in the Quarter…
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