Man Stands Trial on Murder Charge Death of Typist Strangled, Says Prosecutor Sydney
Saying he was not guilty, and challenging 10 jurors, Ronald Stewart Young, 24, wag on trial to-day at the Criminal Court on…
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Courts & crime, 1938
3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 39 of 184
Lively Night in Hotel at Wallsend Sequel In Court
Allegations that during a disturbance at the Racecourse Hotel. Wallsend, early in the morning of February 19, somebody took the opportunity of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fascist Plot Defeated in Brazil Armed Clash with Police Rio De Janeiro, March 20
The Government of Brazil has announced the uncovering of a Fascist plot to assassinate President Vargas and overthrow the Government in an armed…
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Kenneth Middleton, 37, of Newcastle, was sentenced at the Police Court to-day to 12 months' imprisonment and recommended to be declared an habitual…
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James McIntyre, 38, seaman, who was charged with having used indecent language in Hunter-street, Newcastle, on March 11, was remanded to April 4…
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Harold Oliver Shaw, 20, of Homeville, appeared at the West Maitland Police Court to-day, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., on seven charges…
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Holding that a primo facie case had not been established, Mr. Soane discharged Francis Kenneth Harvey, or Frank Harvey, 23, wharf labourer, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Son Charged Father Shot Dead Wellington (N.z.)
With a bullet wound in the back of his head and other head injuries, the body of John Kay, an elderly man, was found at his home in Spreydon last night…
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Isabella Johansen, 53, married, of Carrum, at the City Court to-day, was charged with having murdered Henry Richard King, 35, a sustenance worker…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Use Kitchen's Soaps—made in Newcastle Police Court Monday, March 21 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Builder Discharged
After hearing evidence for the defence, Mr. Scane discharged John Francis McCloy, 42, builder, of John Darling Estate, Belmont, in the part-heard case in which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bedside Guard Youth Injured in Car Smash May Help in Murder Inquiries Sydney
Detectives are on guard at the bedside of a youth who they believe might aid them in their inquiries into the death at…
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At East Maitland Police Court, Ellen Ball proceeded against William Walter Garland, of Melbourne-street, East Maitland, on a charge of having apprehended…
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A notebook in which a youth was alleged to have kept a record of all the shops he had robbed, was produced at the…
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Detectives investigating the theft of £340 worth of tobacco and other articles from a lorry outside the Waverley bowling green in June last year, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.) Charge of Bigamy
Samuel Willis Langtry, 59, was charged at the West Maitland Court yesterday with having at Petersham, on March 11, 1903, married Mabel rose Hilder, and…
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On a charge of having murdered Jules Maltby at Pagewood on Saturday, Eric Chatfield, 20, ship's steward, was remanded at Bega Police Court to-day…
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Alton Thomas Cusick, of the Hotel Gosford, Gosford, was granted booth licences for Newcastle races on March 31…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Small Debts Court Verdict for Plaintiff
A verdict in favour of the plaintiff for £2/15/, with 16/ costs, was returned in the case in which Walgrave Garth, Boreas-road. Hamilton, sued Keith Armstrong,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →35 Dealt with Police Raid "Two-up" DENILIQUIN
Edward Ring and Henry Grey were each sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and 33 other men were fined £2 with 22/6 costs, at the Deniliquin Police…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Herded with Criminals Austrian Aristocrats in Police Cells London
Aristocrats are being herded with criminals in police cells in Vienna and are forbidden to smoke or read or write…
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