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New England · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

1,193 stories in New England's papers · page 9 of 60

Brutal Assault Woman at Rose Bay Assailant Escapes Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 19 February 1938 · page 1

Mrs. Gladys Weekes was brutally assaulted in her flat at Rose Bay last night. She was alone in the flat when she…

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Novel Claim Court Hearing at Gosford "Noisy Canaries and Parrots" Wyong

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 19 February 1938 · page 1

Alleging that his health had been impaired because his neighbor permitted canaries to whistle, love birds to chirp, and parrots to…

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District Court Sittings At Armidale

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 21 February 1938 · page 4

Several cases listed for hearing at Hie Armidale District Court this morning, before his Honour ActingJudge Lloyd, were announced to have…

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Hats in Court Question Of Contempt

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 21 February 1938 · page 3

Commenting on a case of a woman who was told by a English High Court judge that she could not appear in the witness-box without a hat, the…

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Murder Witnessed Through Melbourne Window Woman's Throat Cut Husband's Suicide Follows Melbourne

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 21 February 1938 · page 4

The murder of Maude Foley (47) by her husband, Frederick Augustus Foley (57), caretaker of the Bourke - street…

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Alleged Fraud Business People Duped Salesman Before Court Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 21 February 1938 · page 4

At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Athol George Love (51), a salesman, was charged with having obtained £50 from Edward Kernel…

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Exercise of Option Late Jas. Nicholas' Will Equity Court Proceedings SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Monday 21 February 1938 · page 4

The question of whether Richard Wiseman Nicholas, a young grazier, of Inverell, was entitled to exercise an option to purchase the…

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Australian Aborigine Troubles London Police Wants To Live Away From British Flag By Air Mail.) London, February 5

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 21 February 1938 · page 8

On two occasions, recently, Anthony Martin Fernando, a 73year-old Australian aborigine described as a toy trader, has…

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Taxi Driver Charged

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 22 February 1938 · page 7

Lewis Albert Hogno, taxi driver, was charged that on January 7, not being the holder of a platform ticket, or not being a passenger about to…

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Rabbit Fence Alleged Interference Police Court Sequel Inverell

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 22 February 1938 · page 1

In the Inverell Police Court to-day. Raymond John Doolin proceeded against Alfred Ernest Coulton on two charges of alleged interference with…

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Street Affray Two Men Charged Alleged Offensive Behaviour Story of Night-time Fisticuffs

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 22 February 1938 · page 6

A street affray which attracted the attention of passers-by in Bourke Street and Grey Street on the night of Saturday, February 5,…

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Dogs on the Telephone Clever Alsatians Aids to Police

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 22 February 1938 · page 6

At the police carnival in March, Sydney will be able to judge for itself some of the qualities and capabilities that go to the making…

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Trouble at Station Car Drivers and Officials Matters Ventilated in Court Allegation of "Persecution" Denied

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 22 February 1938 · page 7

Mailers which have been the cause for some time of considerable friction between railway officials and drivers, of service cars and taxis operating from the Glen tunes railway station were ventilated in the local Police Court yesterday, when, before Mr. F…

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£174 STOLEN Burglary at Hotel SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 23 February 1938 · page 8

A message from Gloucester says that the hotel there was entered by burglars last night and £174 stolen from the safe. Valuable jewellery was not…

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Complaints to Police Behaviour in Evans-street

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 23 February 1938 · page 4

In the local Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. F. Scroope, P.M., a number of young men pleaded guilty to offences in…

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Shot Dead Police Mystified Not Foul Play SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 23 February 1938 · page 1

Cyril Stuart Carver, 18, was found shot dead last night in a workshop of his home at Willoughby, with a rifle across his chest…

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Youth Suicides Police Puzzled As to Motive Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 23 February 1938 · page 1

Cyril Stuart Carver (18) was found shot dead last night in a workshop at his home at Willoughby, with a rifle across his chest. It is believed that a…

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Compensation Case Interesting Decision In Full Court Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 23 February 1938 · page 1

The Full Court decided that the injury of a meat worker who slipped in the changing room at the State abattoirs, after having had a…

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Lengthy Case Yetman Graziers in Court Alleged Interference With Fence

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 23 February 1938 · page 8

The major portion of the of sitting of yesterday's Inverell Court of Petty Sessions was devoted to a dispute which arose in Yetman…

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Truck Murder Trial What Witness Saw The Alleged Hold-Up

Guyra Argus · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 5

A witness of what the Crown alleges was the actual hold-up of the transport driver, John Thomas Demsey, gave evidence in the Criminal Court, Melbourne…

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