Workers' Compensation Court. Cessnock Cases. £375 for Loss of Eye
An award for the full amount, with costs on the highest scale, was made in favour of the applicant in the part-heard case in…
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Courts & crime, 1940
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Feared Murder Czech President’s Distrust (“Mercury” Service) PARIS, March 15
The Czech Minister, M. Osusky, recounted the scene In which Marshal Goering had convinced the new President of Czechoslovakia, Mr. Hache…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sessions Case Alleged Assault Man Undefended
Albert [?] Hulin (19), [?] not guilty at Maitland Quarter Sessions this afternoon to having on February 15 at Wallsend assaulted a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Sale Unclaimed Property
A police sale of unclaimed proper will be conducted at the West Maitland Courthouse at 10 a-m. on Saturday March 30…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Theft of Sausage Skins Raid on Butchers, Shops. Sydney
Several further raids on butchers' shops were made during the weekend, when 190 bundles of sausage skins, totalling about 100,000 and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fought in Bar Cessnock Court Sequel CESSNOCK
Jack King was fined £1 at the Cessnock Court to-day for offensive behaviour. constable Meredith said that…
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William Henry Gore pleaded not guilty at the Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday afternoon to having on August ? at Morpeth…
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The hearing is proceeding in the police court of the case in which William Frederick Clarke, 40, labourer, and John Andrew Cummins, 27,…
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In the Maitland District Court, John Pettigrew claimed from Henry Reynolds, a contractor, of Wagstaff-road, Woy…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Breaking and Entering Charges. Weston Youth Sent to Gaol
Kevin John Crawley, 19, of Weston, pleaded guilty, at the Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday to charges of having, at Weston en October 20…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Twelve Months' Gaol on Embezzlement Charge Former Mont De Piete Manager
The case in which Henry Ernest Roberts, 49, of High-street, Cessnock, was charged with having embezzled the sum of £160/6/2, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A.R.U. and Arbitration Court Sydney
The Australian Railways Union has been called tip to appear in the Federal Arbitration Court to show cause why its registration should not be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Major Conder In Bankruptcy Court MELBOURNE
Major Walter Tasman Conder, former general manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission on a salary of £2000 a year, and governor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court Negligent Driving Charge
Arthur Edmondson Preston, of King-street, Newtown, appeared before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the West Maitland Police Court this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Bad Record Eight Years’ Gaol For Manslaughter
At the Criminal Court James Simpson, 38, wharf labourer, was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for the manslaughter of Frederick…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Four Charged Accosted People ln Street NEWCASTLE
At ten o’clock last night Constable Doffall had four men under observation in Hunterst, for ten minutes and then arrested them…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eight Years' Gaol for Manslaughter Sequel to Drinking Bout
Eight years' imprisonment was imposed on James Simpson, 33, wharf labourer, in the Criminal Caurt at Melbourne yesterday for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cafe Shooting For Trial on Murder Charge
Leslie Ernest Kennedy, 27, clerk, was committed for trial on a charge of murder, at the end of the inquest on Alexander Robert Henry Miller,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Menzies Will Not Move "Strike Was a Disastrous Error" Miners' Secretary Says Court Cannot Function Sydney
The Federal ministry's attitude to the coal strike is unchanged. Before he returned to Melbourne to-night the Prime Minister (Mr. R…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reprisals Unlikely Murder of Nazi Guards Herlis, March [?]
It is not expected that the German Government will exact [?] for the murders of two German Frontier guards on the…
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