Returned Soldier's Claim Failed Conducted Own Case in High Court Sydney,-
Unanimously upholding the contention of the Repatriation Commission that William Ernest Tanner's statement of claim, seeking £66 in, respect of…
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Estonian Sentenced to Death; Protests Innocence SYDNEY
Found guilty of murder, Alexander Novad, aged 52, an Estonian, was sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Davidson in the Central Criminal Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tennis Tournament at Methodist Court
An enjoyable afternoon was spent by the ladies taking part in the doubles tournament played on the Methodist Tennis Club’s court on Wednesday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rumpus in Cafe. Court Deals With Offender
In the Court of Petty Sessions, before the P.M.. on Tuesday, George Cook (36), a stranger, was charged for that on 27th November he was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Knifed at Tocumwal Dying Depositions Taken At Improvised Court
As a result of an altercation at Tocumwal on Tuesday evening between two men who had known each other for 24 years, one of them, John Harley, 66, single, was taken to Mooroopna Hospital in a critical condition suffering from a knife wound…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Intensive Inquiry by Police Follows Gift of Bottle of Whisky Sydney
During Christmas, 1937,. Mark Goodman, of Tamworth, received through the post a bottle of whisky with which was enclosed a card…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fair Rents Court Comes Into Effect To-day. SYDNEY
The Fair Rents Act came into operation in New South Wales to-day. Every Court of Petty Sessions in the State has become a tribunal for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners to Break With Arbitration Court New Award Blamed Sydney
The judgment delivered by Sir George Beeby to-day on the miners' claims was likely to end for all time any further association between the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder Charge Follows Old Man's Death Brisbane
Following the death in Mt. Morgan hospital this morning of William Burr, aged 80, of Hamilton Creek, a man was charged with murder. Burr was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Man Released From Gaol Who Shot Mentally Affected Son PERtH
After serving three years' imprisonment for having shot his mentally-afflicted, son, Michael Joseph O'Sullivan, was released-to-day from gaol, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Licensing Court. Wednesday, Nov. 29 Before Mr Geikie, S.M.
At the Licensing Court on Wednesday, new plans were submitted and approved of for the Carriers Arms Hotel, which to be re-constructed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman’s Strange Religious Behavior Quoted in Divorce Court Wellington (N.z.)
A peculiar story was told to the Divorce Court when Percy McDowell sought and was granted a decree nisi from his wife, Norah McDowell…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Stealing Charge Case at Yarrawonga Court Accused Committed for Trial
At the Yarrawonga Court on Tuesday last Donald Bernard Dow and Harold Clifford Wigg were charged With having broken into the store of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court Monday, December 4, 1939. (Before Messrs B. J. Rodgers and A.C. Leslie, Js.P.)
At the Police Court yesterday James F. Powell was fined, £1 on a charge or drunkenness and his own request a prohibition order was made…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Young Men Appear in Albury Court
Lewis Hugh Fraser, aged 19 years, was fined £2 in the Albury Police Court yesterday by Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., on a charge of having, behaved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drunk and Disorderly Defendant Before Court
In the Court of Petty Sessions, before the P.M., yesterday, Cornelius McNamara was charged for that on 3rd December he was drunk and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman “Speedster” Fined £10 Drove at 70 M.P.H. Police Say Melbourne
Evidence that the defendant had driven her motor car through Seaford at 70 miles per hour was given by a police patrolman, when Mrs. Pauline…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prominent Communist Official in America Charged New York, December 5
Robert Wiedner, national treasurer of the United States Communist Party, was charged with falsely procuring a passport. He pleaded not guilty and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Made Peace with God” Man Tells Court Deaths of Wife and Child Bendigo
An alleged confession made to the police that he had, poisoned his wife and child because he could not bear to see them in want was tendered as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gaol Break Prisoner Shields Companion Hobart
The sole blame for two prisoners breaking away from the Hobart Gaol was taken by one of them to-day when Charles Frederick Robinson and David…
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