In Gaol Until They Die Ryan Brothers Join Twelve Others Sydney
Twelve murderers who have escaped the gallows are serving the sentence of natural life in gaols throughout this State…
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Courts & crime, 1937
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Windsor Tragedy Murder and Suicide Youth's Dying Depositions Windsor
A verdict that Allan Milton Jonson, 16, murdered Maria Kemp, 16, and then committed suicide, was returned by the Coroner to-day when he inquired into the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mattson Murder Authorities Hold Man "Fits Description Exactly" Noyes (Minn.), February 8
Federal agents disclosed that they were holding an ex-convict. Stanislaus Poracki, for questioning about the Mattson murder…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Trotting Inquiry in Adelaide Woman Questioned by Police Adelaide
The chairman of the South Australian Trotting Club's stipendiary stewards (Mr. J. C. Skull) announced to-day that he had reopened the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Going Abroad" Balmain Girl Disappears Police Inquiries Fruitless Sydney
Peculiar circumstances are attached to the disappearance of Margaret Maude Bond, 15, of Balmain. A ward of the State in New Zealand, she was adopted,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →District Court Lorry and Tram Collide £172 Damages Claimed
Before Judge Nield and a jury of four, in the Newcastle District Court yesterday, David Evans Prance, of Elder-street, Lambton, claimed £122/11/6 for damage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrestling Police in Ring Newcastle Stadium Bout Dusek in Fighting Mood
The wrestling match at Newcastle Stadium last night, between Joe Savoldi and Danny Dusek, ended in a fist fight. Dusek was disqualified in the seventh…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Triumph for Police Officer at Stadium Gets Submission Hold On Wrestling Principal
Sergeant Harold Thompson, a veteran of the police force, provided the highlight at the wrestling contest between "Jumping Joe" Savoldi and Danny Dusek, the American cowboy, at the stadium last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Courts Tuesday, February 9 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Small Debts Court Verdict for Plaintiff
A verdict for the full amount, with 11/ costs, was returned in favour of the plaintiff in the case in which the Postmaster-General sued Alice Ann Dean, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Attempted Murder American Seaman Charged in New Zealand Court's Power Questioned Wellington (N.z.)
When Jamed Gannon, 30, a seamas, came before the Supreme Court at Auckland to-day, on a charge of having at tempted to murder Frank Foster, 21, on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Theft of Timber
Proceeded against by B. G. Littler, on behalf of the Scottish Australian Mining Company, Arthur Davies, of Main-road, Cardiff, and George Watson, of Jesmond,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fined for Assault
"Nip" Williams of Scott-street. Weston, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having assaulted Alfred Hasting. Mr. W. J. Enright, who prosecuted, said that…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Full Court Test Police Dismissals Damages May Be Claimed Sydney
The legality of the dismissal of policemen following the report of the Starting-price Royal Commission may be tested in the Supreme Court…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tale of Vanished Tails Unusual Theft Reported
The flowing tails of the Newcastle City Council horses have vanished during the past fortnight. In their places are a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Sentenced to Be Whipped Offence Against Girl Adelaide
Two whippings, each of 10 strokes, and imprisonment with hard labor for three years, was the sentence posed by Mr. Justice Cleland in the Criminal…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Kurri Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.) Chinese for Trial
The part-heard ease in which Joe Hang, of Northcote-street, Kurri Kurri was charged with having assaulted George Norman at Kurri Kurri on January 13…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Court Wednesday, February 10 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Summons Division Hearings Adjourned
The hearing was adjourned until March 10 of the case in which David Jack, of Young-street. Carrington, was charged with having driven a car negligently in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District Court Verdict for Plaintiffs Jesmond Collision Claims
A verdict for £122/11/6, the full amount claimed, was given at the Newcastle District Court yesterday in favour of David Evans France, of Elder-street, Lambton;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£130,000 in Writs Former Police Seek Damages Sydney
Writs claiming in all £130, 000 damages from the New South Wales Government were issued to-day on behalf of 13…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Perjury Alleged Evidence Before Marine Court Kakariki Collision Melbourne
Addresses were concluded before the Marine Court of Inquiry to-day concerning the collision between the Kakariki and the Caradale, on January 20,…
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