"The Midnight Murder Mystery" (Copyright) Synopsis of preceding instalments
When Percy Jones, Chicago radio announcer, arrives late at Janice Hume's party he explains that a blue Persian kitten scratched his face. He…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1939
1,886 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 65 of 95
Clergyman Charged
A clergymen was charged at Brisbane Police Court with unlawful assembly as a sequel to the raid by 37 men on a Labour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol Governor Arrives
Mr. A. C. Dunn, formerly deputy governor of Bathurst Gaol, who was recently appointed governor of Maitland Gaol,, has arrived in East…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shunter Sentenced Receiving Stolen Goods Newcastle
Ernest Albeit Hine (37), a railway shunter, who w. s found guilty at the Quarter Sessions last week of receiving goods, knowing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Sentenced Breaking and Entering NEWCASTLE
In the Quarter Sessions this afternoon Frank Ross (28), a salesman, Alan James Hall (27), electrician, and James Lacey (28), tinsmith, were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Imposed on Hospitals Man Sent to Gaol
Walter Coultas (27) pleaded guilty at Tamworth Police Court last week to a couple of charges arising from his admission to Tamworth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"The Midnight Murder Mystery" (Copyright)
Synopsis or preceding instalments: Percy Jones, Chicago radio announcer, arrives late at Janice Hume's party with a scratched face. He says…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Beats the World's Police
The Bullfighter (Mr. Woolcott Forbes) has completely gone in to smoke. Although he has been searched for by the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bank Holiday—no Court
Owing to it being a bank holiday, there was no sitting of Cessnock Police Court yesterday. The next sitting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →King's Cross Murder Search for Suspects. Sydney
Detectives investigating the murder of Guido Calletti, who was shot during a fracas in a house in Brougham-street, King's Cross, on Sunday night, are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dungog Court Two Youths Remanded
Two youths appeared before two local Justices on Saturday morning at Dungog Police Court on charges of stealing and of carrying unlicensed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Busy Search for Murderer SYDNEY
Detectives investigating the murder of Guide Calle[?]ll, who was shot in a house in Brougham-street, King's Cross, on Sunday night, are making…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Undue Noise Motor Cyclist in Court
Charged with causing undue noise with a silencer on the Maitland-road. Beresfield, on June 4, Herbert Leslie Prior, of. Woodbine-street, Mayfield…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Army of the Lost Busy Task for Police
For five years Sydney detectives have been striving to discover the identity of the murdered Albury "pyjama girl," and since March…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Exceeded Speed: Cases at West Maitland Court
Pleading guilty at the West Maitland Police Court to-day to charges of having exceeded the speed limit of 30 m.p.h. on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fight at Dance Sequel at Maitland Court Lochinvar Fracas
Evidence that there had been considerable trouble at dances at the Lochinvar School of Arts in the past, was given by Constable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Murder Young Farmhand Charged BRISBANE
At the Mundubra Children's Court to-day a 16 years old farmhand was charged with the alleged murder of Mrs. Rita Grant, 22, at a lonely…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Marriage of Gangsters' Lawyer Served Gaol Sentence
A message from New York states that "Dixie" Davis, once a lawyer for notorious gangsters, was at the weekend married secretly to a show girl,…
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Synopsis of preceding instalments: Percy Jones, Chicago radio announcer, arrives late at Janice Hume's party with a scratched face. He says…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Appeal Fails Baronet Remains in Gaol BRISBANE
The Criminal Appeal Court dismissed the appeal of Sir Frederick James Siddartha Affieck, 33, the ninth baronet of Dalham Hall, Suffolk…
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