Secret Witness Public Excluded from Court Everett Inquest Accusations Made Against Houseman
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 9
The calling of a "mystery" witness, whose evidence was taken with the Court closed to the public, was an unexpected development in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Judge Retires U.S. Supreme Court Effect on New Deal Washington, January 6
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 9
By another Supreme Court retirement President Roosevelt's struggle to save the New Deal laws from being upset becomes prospectively easier…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Miss X" Denies Allegations of Leonard Roberts Keen Cross-examination By Counsel For Houseman Big Crowd Waits for Many Hours Outside Closed Court
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 1
Behind closed doors to-day, Miss X, the mystery girl, in the Broughton School murder inquest indignantly denied all the allegations of Leonard William Roberts, house man at the school, that she had been in his room frequently and that intimacy had occurred on a number of occasions. He had never even fondled or…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court Indecent Language
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 11
Thomas Leonard 39, who appeared before Mr. E. I. Cox, J. P., at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday was fined 10/ on a charge of drunkenness, and 30/…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Charge of Assault
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 17
An adjournment to January 19 was granted in the case in which Stella Laurie Fleming charged Royalston Hilton Allen Fleming, Oxford-street, New…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Read Poem to Magistrate Police Story Of City Lizards SYDNEY
The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 5
A poet who cooks as a sideline, John Gleeson (48), admitted in the Central Police Court yesterday that he was playing with two blue-tongued lizards…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Cadets Transferred
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 8
The four police cadets, J. Tindale, B. Doyle, A. Nielsen, and D. Lane, who have received trailing in Newcastle for the past six months, will return to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Six Months' Gaol Used Car Illegally SYDNEY
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 6
Charged at the Burwood Police Court to-day with having illegally taken and used a motor-car, the property of Morton John Bell, Jan Francisson, 20, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gaol Without Option Brisbane Gaming Conviction BRISBANE
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 14
On a charge of having used a common gaming house, John Frederick Syone, 49, a billiard-room proprietor, was to-day sentenced to six weeks's imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Police Court Friday, January 7 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Committed for Trial
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 17
Frederick Gibson, 55, steward, was committed for trail a the Quarter Sessions on February 1, on a charge of having broken and entered Hartley Spurr's…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Hotel Shooting Hairdresser on Murder Charge Detective Alleges Admission Melbourne
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 10
Harcourt Lee, 38, a hairdresser, was committed for trial to-day at the Coroner's Court on a charge of having murdered Arthur Kingsley Taplin, 23, a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cycling No Road Races Advice to Clubs from Police
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 17
Carrington, Newcastle, and Cardiff League Cycling Clubs have abandoned the road raced scheduled for to-day and to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →U.S. Supreme Court Vacancy Washington, January 6
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 10
Members of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee have petitioned President Roosevelt, requesting the appointment of their chairman, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gunshot Victim Missing All Night Search by Police Melbourne
The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 7
Seriously wounded in the stomach by a bullet from a pearifle yesterday afternoon. Francis Thornton, 29. wandered across a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Darlinghurst Charge Police Inspector Fergusson Premier Blocked Promotion Sydney
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 9
Inspector G. G. Fergusson, who has been stationed at headquarters for some time, has been appointed officer-in-charge at Darlinghurst police station, and will…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Judge Federal Arbitration Court Adelaide Barrister Melbourne
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 9
The Federal Cabinet decided to-day to appoint Mr. Harold Bayard Piper, a barrister, of Adelaide, as a judge of the Federal Arbitration…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cook's Rampage Fay Wray Threatened Police to the Rescue Hollywood, January 6
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 10
An enraged cook staged a two-hour rampage at the home of Fay Wray, the film actress, before she was overpowered by two policemen who accepted her…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Miss X" Now Coroner's Order at Everett Inquest Secret Witness in Box Left Court Wearing Dark Glasses
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 9
The identity of the secret witness, whose evidence at the Everett murder inquest occupied practically the whole of yesterday's…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two British Police Manhandled by Japanese Troops in Shanghai British Defence Sector Violated Japanese Commander Warned Against Repetition (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, January 7
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 9
Hot on the heels of the protest against the manhandling of two Britons, Superintendent Sinclair and Inspector Bennett, Japanese troops last night maltreated inspector. West and Sergeant A. R. Turner…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Stealing Charge
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 6
For having stolen a horse collar and n greenhide rope, the property of William Astley, Reginald Wallace King. 37, was fined £3 and ordered to pay…
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