Man Remanded Attempt to Murder Charge SYDNEY
At Redfern Police Court to-day, Norman Smith, 25, labourer, was remanded on a charge of having shot at Joseph Wignall, at Redfern, on December 31,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1936
3,714 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 186
Terrorist Trial Violent Scenes in Warsaw Plot to Murder Warsaw
Violent scenes marked the conclusion of the trial of 12 Ukrainian terrorists, alleged to have been the organisers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →35 Extra Men for North East Police Reorganisation
As a result of the reorganisation of country police districts, which has now come into force, 35 men will be added to the strength of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Pursuit by Police Story of Chase at Cessnock Two Men Committed
Along the Cessnock streets on the night of December 27 a police car dashed in hot pursuit of a car which had made off from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Women Found with Throats Cut Inquest Held To-day Husband Sent for Trial Charge of Murder Sydney
Percival Henry Thomson, 55. relief worker, was committed for trial by the Parramatta District Coroner (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Shot Dead in Court Lawyer Kills His Rival Misses the Judge Chicago
Infuriated when a ruling was given against him during the hearing of a case to-day, John Keogh, an elderly lawyer, drew…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Processing Taxes £40,000,000 to Be Returned U.S.A. Court Ruling Washington
The United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously to-day that £40,000,000 in A A A., processing taxes now impounded by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court
Mr. R. Atkinson, P.M., occupied the Bench at the cessnock Police Court yesterday. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Car Criticised
The car attached to Cessnock Police Station was criticised for its inefficiency by Cessnock Municipal Council last night. Aldermen declared its defects were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Licensing Court
The licence of the Commercial Hotel, Newcastle, was transferred from Walter Percival York to James McCassie. Mr. K. W. Barnett (Messrs. Braye, Cragg,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Small Debts Court
A verdict for £14/12/7, with 13/6 costs, and £1/10/ witnesses' expenses, was returned in favour of the plaintiff in the case in which Raymond Bernard Smith,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Best Way Out" Woman's Throat Cut Husband Was in Gaol Melbourne
Mrs. Ida Gunning, 49, whose husband, Joseph Edward Gunning, 49, a miner, was arrested yesterday on a charge of unlawfully having in his possession 17oz, of gold,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Body Exhumed At Island Cemetery Native on Murder Charge Brisbane
A charge of wilful murder of a female aboriginal. Molly Huddy, 30, was preferred against an aboriginal from the Fantome Island, in the Palm Island…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hill Tennis Court Lights Motorists Complain of Glare
When complaints by motorists regarding the glare from the lights at the new Hill tennis courts were referred to the N.R.M.A. this morning it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To Stand Trial Man on Double Murder Charge "I Have Turned Religious" Sydney
On a charge of having murdered his wife and mother-in-law, Percival Henry Thomson, 55, a relief worker, was committed for trial by Parramatta District…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Man's Death At Willoughby Murder Charge Made Against Two Evidence Given at the Inquest To-day Sydney
Evidence that two men had walked into the house of Leslie Arthur Peterson, 34, barrowman, at Eden-street, Willoughby, at 11.15 p.m. on Christmas Eve and had attacked him with their fists, was given to-day at the inquest into Peterson's death,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gunfire in Court Infuriated Attorney Killed Rival: Missed Judge Chicago, January 13
Infuriated by an adverse ruling from the Bench, John Keogh, a veteran practising attorney, calmly drew a revolver in Court to-day, killed his rival attorney,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Impounded Taxes "Return to Taxpayers" U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Washington, January 13
The United States Supreme Court to-day ruled unanimously that 200,000,000 dollars of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration processing taxes…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tragedy Follows a Quarrel in Park Girl Wife Shot Youth Found Dead Story to Police Melbourne
A young married woman was critically injured by a bullet fired into her stomach and later a youth shot…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court Wednesday, January 15 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Drunkenness
Following an appeal by Mr. H. L. O'Neill (Messrs. Johnson and O'Neill), the Magistrate remanded until April 27 Samuel Walls, 52, a labourer, who had…
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