Cattle Stealing Alleged to Be Rampant. Police Work Praised
Allegations that cattle stealing in the Clarence district was as rampant as it ever was, were made by Mr. F. Maxwell at a meeting of the Grafton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1939
1,886 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 53 of 95
DISMISSED Appeal By Butcher Sheep Stealing
Joseph Gerard Cantwell, of Loch invar, appealed to Judge Nield in the Maitland Quarter Sessions to-day. against a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Exciting Newspaper Murder Mystery
A novel and tremendously exciting newspaper murder mystery with Barry K. Barnes and Valerie Hobson in the principal parts, Paramount's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cliper's Claim Dismissed. Compensation Court Matter
At yesterday's sitting of the workers' Compensation Commission in Newcastle, Judge Perdriau dismissed a claim by Frederick Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Followers of Judge Rutherford Marchers Stopped by Police
Police in Sydney at the week-end broke up processions arranged by followers of Judge Rutherford. They took the names of about 50 men and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stood Over Industrial Court Cases Award Breaches
Five firms in High-street, West Maitland, and 17 employees of these firms were charged at the West. Maitland Industrial Court…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Dragging for Body Woman's Handbag and Note Found. Launceston
After a woman's handbag and a note were found at the foot of a cliff within a few yards of the sea, the police began dragging for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Attacked by Dog Victim Prosecutes Owner. Case at Cessnock Court
Richard Howe, of Kearsley, entered a plea of not guilty when charged at Cessnock Court yesterday, with being the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DISQUALIFIED Wrestler Refused To Re-enter Ring Police Call Halt Sydney
When police called a halt to an out of the ring fistic duel in the wrestling bout between Pat Fraley, 16.6, and Andy Moen, 16.9, at the Rushcutter…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Huge Crowd Police Ball At Cessnock Choral Items Cessnock
There were over 1000 dancers at the Police Ball, which was attended by the Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies last night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Theft of Scrip
Detectives visited stockbrokers and others in Sydney in a search for share certificates valued at £6000, which had been stolen from a flat at Woollahra…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →18 Months' Gaol Marble Polisher In Trouble SYDNEY
At the Quarter' Sessions to-day Stanley Thomas Francis Connolly, 25, a marble polisher, pleaded guilty to housebreaking with intent to steal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Job in Peril" Alleged Car Theft Man Remanded Newcastle
"I don't think I should be held on this charge; my job is iu peril. Isn't there some law in this country by which a man is allowed to express…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Colonel Murphy SherifF of Supreme Court SYDNEY
Colonel G. F. Murphy, Sheriff of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, will take up his appointment as Assistant Controller of Prisons next…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murrurundi Police Court
Court of Petty Sessions, Murrurundi, 29th June, 1939, before Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.M. Kenneth H. M. Arnott, of "Glen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sentenced to Ten Years' Gaol Released After Serving Sixteen Months Sydney
Eric Alexander Smith, who in February last year shot and killed Albert Hedges, street muscician, with whom his mother formed an alliance, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Raid on "Place Card" Office Men Later Charged
Ten thousand "four place horse" cards were seized when police raided an office in Bathurst Street, Sydney, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmer Goes to Gaol
A Kyogle press message states that a well-dressed dairy farmer, who objected to paying a fine imposed upon him by the Police Magistrate, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland Quarter Sessions Boy Charged Malicious Wounding
Albert Henry Gordon Gentles, 15 years and nine months, pleaded guilty at Maitland Quarter Sessions on Monday to a charge of having, on April…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Silver Jubilee as Magistrate. Mr. James R. SCOTT
Mr. Jas. R. Scott, J.P., Deputy-Coroner, yesterday celebrated his silver jubilee as a Magistrate. He was gazetted as such…
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