Thousands Charged with Drunkenness Sydney
During 1936 11,875 persons, including 1772 women, were dealt with at the Central Court for drunkenness. Of 4558 who signed the pledge 813…
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Courts & crime, 1937
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Police Court Monday, January 4 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Offensive Behaviour
Keith Saxon, 21, labourer, and John Wilson, 21, labourer, pleaded "Guilty" to changes of having behaved in an offensive manner in Perkin-street on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Old Persian Rug Trick Hawkers In Trailers Sent To Gaol
Provided with cars drawing trailers, three men were able to cover a wide area and perpetrate frauds within a short time of each other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mother on Charge of Attempted Murder Auckland
Petrina Petersen (30), a domestic, has been charged at Hamilton with attempting to murder her two children and also with attempting to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murder Charge Woman Dies in Street MELBOURNE
Charged at the City Court to-day with having murdered Mrs. Edith Rachel May Praetz, or Walker, of Victoria-street, North Melbourne, on December 29,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bodily Harm Charge Police Allege Stabbing SYDNEY
On a charge of having maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm upon William Reuben McLaughlin, at Waton's Bay, on January 2, Michael Curran, 38, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →High Court Appeal Damages for Defamation BRISBANE
The solicitors for the "Courier-Mail" have lodged at the Supreme Court in Brisbane notice of appeal to the High Court of Australia against a Full Court…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Other States Are Interested Fighting Dismissal of Police Sydney
The Police Association, said the secretary (Mr. Cosgrove) to-day, intends to explore every legal ana constitutional avenue to upset the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Court Grants Application Unusual Request to Divorce Judge Sydney
So that a child of her husband's by another woman may be born in wedlock, a wife in the Divorce Court today agreed that a decree nisi…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Weston Man Fined for Assault
At the Kurri police Court to-day, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., Colin Simpson Young, charged William Taylor with assault at Weston on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m Accepted Totalisator Bet
William Wright, 34, pleaded "Guilty" at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday to a charge of having accepted a six penny totalisator bet on Canegrass on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court Tuesday, January 5 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Indecent Behaviour
For having behaved in an indecent manner in Newcomen-street, Newcastle, on January 4, Leslie George Neille, 30, fireman, was fined £2, in default four days'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Divorce Court Congestion Sydney
Of the 2169 divorce petitions set down for hearing last year, only 27 remained to be dealt with at the commencement of the present law…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Small Debts Court Consent Judgment
By consent, judgment for £1/2/6, with 12/ costs, was returned for the plaintiff in the case in which L. B. Vincer, Corona-street, Hamilton, proceeded against Jack…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dismissed Police to Issue Writ Sydney
The solicitors for the 15 policemen dismissed following the findings of the S.P. Royal Commissioner (Judge Markell) have not yet been informed by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →William Lavers Two Rewards Extended Suspected Grenfell Murder Sydney
The Chief Secretary (Mr. F. A. Chaffey) said to-day that the offer of Government rewards of £100 and £400 relative to the suspected murder of William Henry…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Skeleton in Shaft Police Search for Clues Melbourne
Shovel marks around the top of an old mining shaft in the bush near Wedderburn in which the fully clothed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Warning to Cyclists Strict Enforcement of Reflector Rule Sydney
Cyclists will have to heed the warning of the Sydney Truffle Superintendent (Mr. Stanton) All motor cyclists and bicycle…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Strange Death Inquest into Yea Mystery Police Theory of Accident Melbourne
The inquest began to-day into the death of Violet Webb, 19, who died in strange circumstances outside the Yea Post-office early on December 20…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yacht Missing Fisherman and Passenger on Board Police Search Unsuccessful Launceston
Fears are entertained for the safety of two occupants of the yacht Star, which sailed out of the river Mersey on Sunday afternoon and which has not been…
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