"Ringing In" at Court Go While the Going Is Good, Said S.M. SYDNEY
"If I find any man here representing himself to be anyone else I will deal very severely with him, as such an action is purely contempt of…
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Courts & crime, 1931
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Secret Cables Inflation and High Court Mr Scullin Abroad Threat to Leave Office CANBERRA
An extraordinary series of cables which passed in November last between the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin), who was then in London, and the Ministers whom…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →High Court Against Lang in Upper House Appeal Majority of Three to Two Privy Council Next Special Leave to Appeal Likely As Next Step Long Legal Fight High Court's Ruling Is That Upper House Cannot Be Abolished Before Referendum Melbourne
The Full High Court to-day dismissed the appeal by the Government of N.S.W. against the decision of the Full Court of N.S.W., which decided that a referendum was necessary before the Legislative Council…
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Before Messrs. H. L. Sargeson and S. Snape, Js.P., at the Cessnock Police Court, yesterday morning. Stanley Buchanan, a salesman, of Sydney, was charged…
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Raymond George Jones, 21, and Jack Stanford, 18, were charged with having broken and entered the premises of Hugh Linton, at Kearsley, and stolen goods…
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Joseph Kerkhoven, 20, seaman, pleaded "Guilty" to having stolen, at Carrington on March 14, a quantity of coal, valued at 15/, the property of the Railway…
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Three youths were arrested yesterday in connection with the theft or 5000 detonators from the store of Abermain No. 2 Colliery at the week-end. Most of them…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Murder Charge Eade Before Court Cessnock-road Tragedy
John William Eade, 54, an employee on the Cessnock sewerage works, was charged at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday morning with having feloniously…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District West Maitland Police Court Offensive Behaviour
An offensive behaviour case before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday occupied nearly four hours. Stanley Fitness, a dairyman,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →No "Ring-ins" Magistrate's Warning SYDNEY
When 22 men pleaded "Guilty" at the Central Police Court to-day, to a charge of having been found in a common gaming house. Mr. Laidlaw, S.M., issued a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Blackmail Charges Made in Court "Posed As Police," Says Detective Sydney
Sensational allegations of blackmail were made in the Central Police Court to-day, when Ernest Alexander Walker, aged 19, salesman, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Released From Gaol Life Sentence Lifted BRISBANE
About 7 o'clock this morning James william Laydon, who on March 12, 1924. was sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of Mr. A. E…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court Monday, March 16. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Indecent Language
When Detective Constable B. Avery entered Lewis's wine saloon, Hunter-street, Newcastle, on Saturday afternoon, he heard, Alfred Hennewell, 32, fireman,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Forged Bank Slip Teacher Sent to Gaol SYDNEY
Mona Beattie, 32, teacher, who was sentenced to six months' gaol on three charges at the Parramatta Court last week, appeared at Newtown Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Youths Charged at Cessnock Alleged Robbery During Week-end
Evidence of finding two youth's sitting at a table each with a revolver in front of him and one of them with two bullets in his pocket…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mischief Found for Idle Hands Church Poor Box Robbed Magistrate's Comment Albury
Recording a fine of £2, or a month's imprisonment, against George Berry, 20 who had pleaded guilty to having robbed the poor box at the Roman…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Blazing Car Murder Did Rouse Confess? Equivocal Reply in Commons London
A denial that any confession by Arthur Rouse, hanged for murder in connection with the blazing car mystery, had been passed out from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Nazis Blamed Man Shot In 'Bus Daring Hamburg Murder Hamburg, March 15
A daring political murder was committed in a crowded motor 'bus on its way to Hamburg at midnight. Three men presumed to be Nazis,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murderers Obey Order Surrender to the Police BERLIN
Two men who have presented themselves to the police and an other man who has been arrested have been charged with the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Denman Horror Six Bodies in Blazing Homestead Entire Family Dies Murder and Suicide Theory DENMAN
Stark tragedy descended on a Martindale Estate homestead, near Denman, this morning, as the result of which a family of six persons have lost their lives, and…
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