Film Writer Shot Dead Widow Questioned by Police Palm Sprinos (Cal.)
Humphrey Pearson, a widely known film write, was found to-day shot dead in. bed in his desert cottage. The authorities will make the…
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Courts & crime, 1937
3,769 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 189
Two Killed Police Fire Into Crowd Attacked by Miners' Wives Budapest, February 24
Two were killed and three wounded when gendarmes fired a volley into a croup of miners and women to-day. The crowd was demonstrating in support of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Car Worth £2500 Chase by Adelaide Police Caught When Tyre Blew Out Adelaide
The story of a thrilling chase through the city this morning after a Rolls Royce Car, valued at £2500, which later caught fire and was abandoned, was told in the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Axe and Razor Use in Gipsies' Quarrel Reconciliation in Court Sydney
Arising out of a disturbance at a camp of gipsies at Bankstown, on February 18 and 24, Tom Sterio, 36, appeared at the Campsie Court to-day on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →30 Miners Barricade Entrances to the Mine Large Force of Police Sent As a Precautionary Measure Climax to Dispute Over Mechanisation
Following a dispute concerning the workiner of new electric coal drilling machinery. 30 miners at Wallarah North Colliery (near Swansea) early this morning barricaded themselves in the pit. Later, over the mine telephone, they declared that they intended to stay below…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lash and Gaol Woman's Assailant Sentenced MELBOURNE
A flogging of 20 strokes and three years' imprisonment was the sentence imposed on Alwyn Rainton Keys, 25, a labourer, of Oakley, by Mr. Justice Gavan…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Summons Division Unlawful Assault
Alice Ann Weaver, of Laman-street, Cook's Hill, proceeded against Henry George Stafford, for unlawful assault, at Cook's Hill, on February 6. Stafford was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Wrestlers
Wrestling at the Police Barracks. The competitors look part in heats for the contests, which will be held in conjunction with the Sydney Police Carnival…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court Work Accumulating
Owing to the accumulation of the Court work in the Maitland Magistrate's circuit, Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., was advised yesterday that Mr. R. Solling, P.M., of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Three Years' Gaol Conditional Remission Sydney Solicitor's Fraud Sydney
The case in which David Campbell, 52, a solicitor, was charged with fraudulent misappropriation, was concluded at the Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fight on Ship Seaman Charged Second Officer's Story Melbourne
When Marion Slay, an American seaman man, appeared in the City Court to-day, on a charge of assault on the high seas, the second officer said that a fight broke…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Five Years' Gaol Money By Menaces Man Posed As Policeman Sydney
Found guilty of the theft of £80 from a house in Glebe, which he visited on the pretext that he was a policeman, James Hogan, 38, was sentenced to five…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Shot at Police Long Sentences for Two Men Victorian Judge's Comment Melbourne
Trenchant criticism of the use of firearms by young criminals was made in the Criminal Court to-day by Mr. Justice Gavan Duffy when he sentenced Ernest…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cowed by Guns 400 Sit-down Strikers Now in County Gaol Had 'Planes to Combat Gas (Australian Associated Press.) Los Angeles, February 25
The Grand Jury voted 400 indictments charging the sit-down strikers at the Douglas plant with felonious conspiracy. It ordered…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →U.S. CONSTITUTION Amendment Proposed Compromise in Supreme Court Dispute Washington, February 26
Senator Borah introduced a proposal for a constitutional amendment to re-define the 14th amendment, containing the so called "due process" clause. The…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Industrial Court (Before Mr. J. A. S. Balmain, S.m.) Case Part-heard
Owing to the illness of a woman who had been subpoenaed as a witness the hearing was adjourned to March 18 of the case in which Inspector D. A. Geddes. of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Well And Happy—Not Coming Up" Message From Stay-in Strikers Police Cordon Prepares for Week-end Vigil
At 7 a.m. to-day the 30 stay-in strikers in North Wallarah Colliery near Swansea, had spent 24 hours behind their barriers, 180 feet under the surface. "We are all well and happy, and we are not coming up,"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Assault Charge
"This has been a lesson to me—I'll never drink again," said Joseph Gill (40). laborer, at Newcastle Police Court to-day, when pleading guilty to a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Took Gun Into Bar Man Was Refused Drink Sequel in Police Court Sydney
The allegation that a man had come into a hotel with a gun behind his back after he had been refused a drink and had been jostled out by the barman, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Appeals Lodged Titles Office Murder Conviction MELBOURNE
Rupert Davies, 28, a storeman, and William John Cody, 24, a labourer, have lodged appeals against sentence of death tor the murder of James Edward Seriven,…
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