Girl Killed Struck By Motor Cor Driver Charged Newcastle
Arising out of the death of Veronica Joyce Gallagher, a girl of 14, who was killed when struck by a motor car on Lambton Road, Broadmeadow, last…
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Courts & crime, 1939
1,886 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 61 of 95
358 CASES Compensation Court
When the Workers' Compensation Courts resumed sittings in Sydney yesterday after the law vacation, 358 cases awaited hearing. There were thus…
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"If he's innocent, why docs he run away?" asked Philip Constantino. "We don't know that he is away. We don't know what he's doing…
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Jack Tanner, 29, a labourer, was further remanded for a week at the Central Court to-day on a charge of having murdered Anthony Leaumont…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flour Tax High Court Judgment Validity Upheld
The full bench of the High Court while not unanimous that the constitution paved the way for free and untramelled commerce…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robbery at Victorian Post Office Police Find Abandoned Car. Melbourne
A is being questioned concerning a Jobbery Bonnie Post Office. A large posse of police scouring the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Search Bonnie Doon Post Office Robbery Abandoned Car Melbourne
A search for two men and women, who are alleged to have robbed the Bonnie Doon postmaster last night, resulted in a man being detained early…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wanton Driving Seaman Sentenced To 18 Months' SYDNEY
Roy Vivian O'Hara, 28, a seaman was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment by Judge Curlewis at the Quarter Sessions on a charge of…
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The warm tub and the cold shower that followed it wakened Blackwood sufficiently to excite his interest in the paper. As he ate his breakfast…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Court Allegations Illegal Sale of Liquor SYDNEY
Allegations that the gross profit from the illegal sale of liquor from a delicatessen store in King's Cross Road, Darlinghurst, ranged from £10…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Water Act Chief Justice Critical Supreme Court Sydney
"Grossly inadequate and almost unintelligible," were the terms used by the Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Jordan, to describe…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →APPRENTICES Power To Cancel Indentures Court's Ruling Sydney
Magistrates have power to cancel the indentures of apprentices for misconduct, if good cause is shown. This ruling was given by…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Dumosa Murder Inquiry Police Saw 3000 Nomadic Workers
Evidence that police had traced more than 3000 nomadic workers in efforts to identify the man whose body was found in a bag in a dam at…
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Sergeant C. V. Gentle, officer in charge at Dungog police station, advised that continued inquiries into Council's complaint regarding…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Goulburn Gaol Unrest Prisoners' Terror System
Following allegations that some prisoners in the recent trouble at Goulburn Gaol had instituted a system of terrorism, the Minister for Justice…
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Spnopsis of Preceding Instalments: Percy Jones, famous Chicago radio announcer, is expected shortly after midnight at a party given by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wanton Driving by Seaman 18 Months' Gaol Imposed
Roy Vivian O'Hara, 28, a seaman, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment by Judge Curlewis at the Quarter Sessions in Sydney on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Labor Daily Loses High Court Appeal
In a unanimous judgment, the Full High Court of Australia yesterday dismissed, with costs, the appeal of Labor Doily Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Threat to Wreck Train Police on Board Menindie Service
A complement of police, in charge of an inspector, left Sydney last night on board a train for Menindie, following a report…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War Veterans' Appreciation of the N.s.w. Police Force
Capt. J. J. Collingwood, at the last committee meeting of the 2nd battalion (A.I.F.) Association, sponsored a motion paying tribute to the tact…
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