Fewer Charges at Cessnock Court More Trial Cases
Though fewer cases were dealt with in Cessnock Court last year than in 1935, nearly four times as many people were committed for trial…
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Courts & crime, 1937
3,769 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 189
Police Dismissals and S.P. Betting New Inquiry to Be Discussed Sydney
The executive of the N.S.W. Police Association will discuss to-night the Premier's announcement of Judge Markell's reappointment as a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →U.S. Supreme Court "Should Follow Election Returns" New York, January 10
Mr. Emanuel Celler, Chairman of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, in the course of a broadcast address to-day, said: "The Supreme Court…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Murder of Girl in Peking Police Discoveries Peking
The police have detained a man, whose nationality has not been stated, on a charge concerning the murder of Pamela Werner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m. Made False Statements
William Henry Willmott, of Mathieson-street. Cessnock, Alexander Colin Norris, of Colliery-street, Aberdare, Walter Thompson, of Lamber-street, Cessnock,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Alert Police "Arrest" Premier
The efficiency and alertness of the Hobart police was strikingly demonstrated to the Premier (Mr. A. G. Ogilvie) a few days ago when he was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murder in Peking Rickshaw "Boy" Arrested PEKING, January 12
A rickshaw "boy" has been arrested in connection with the murder of Pamela Werner, the 17-year-old New Zealand girl, whose mutilated body was found outside…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Small Debts Court Hearing Adjourned
To permit inquiries to be made regarding dates, an adjournment to February 2 was granted in the case in which C. B. Jackson Ltd. sued George Harrison, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Changes in Police Senior Officers in Country Sydney
Important changes in administrative offices are about to take place in the New South Wales police force…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman's Death Police Investigating Analyst's Report Awaited Sydney
Police are investigating the death of Mrs. Jean Cox, 33, whose body was found in a camp occupied by herself and her husband at Maude, near Hay, on January…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Law Proposed to Crush S.P. Betting Gaol After First Case Statement by Premier Sydney
Imprisonment without the option of a fine for the second offence will probably be the New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman's Death Body Placed in Bathtub New York Murder Mystery New York, January 12
Mrs. Frank Case, 25, was found skin from a blow on the head in an overflowing bathtub in her fourth-floor apartment in a suburban apartment home, when…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney Editor Cited Contempt of Court Alleged Sydney
A rule nisi was Issued out of the Supreme Court to-day calling on Norman McCauley, editor of the "Labor Daily," and George Smith, printer and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Inflamed by Rumour Moslems Burn Church Three Killed by Police Madras, January 12
Inflamed by a bongs story that two Moslem children had been kidnapped and ordered to worship the stat[?]es in the new church of St. Philomena, Mysore,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Association Case for S.P. Commission Decision at Next Meeting Sydney
The executive of the New South Wales Police Association met this afternoon, but the reopening of the Starting Price Betting Commission was not discussed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Licensing Court (Before Mr. T. W. Cohen, L.m.) Wine Licence Removed
Walter Charles Twyford was granted permission to remove an Australian wine licence from premises in Carrington-street, West Wallsend, to another site in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strikers Riot Motor Plant Seized Battle with Police Additional Factories Close (Australian Associated Press.) FLINT, January 12
Eight hundred strikers rioted today and seized the entire Fisher motor body plant, the second floor of which they have occupied since…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Horns Were Twisted Widow's Story to Court Two Bullocks in Transit Friend Committed for Trial Sydney
A baldy bullock and a Jersey bullock at Waratah Saleyards on November 12 were in such a condition that they had suffered unnecessary pain in transit, said How she had been attacked and an attempt made to criminally assault her by a man whom she had known since he was a schoolboy, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sent to Gaol Man Charged with Theft Second Man Acquitted Sydney
When Norman Lewis Quigley, 26, and Laurence Victor Feeney, 28, appeared at the Newtown Court to-day, on a charge of having stolen goods from a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Murder of Bride Negro Porter Is Charged New York
An accumulation of evidence has convinced the authorities that Major Green, a negro porter, is guilty of the murder of…
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