Farley Tragedy Three Youths for Trial Inquest Story One on Murder Charge
A verdict of murder was returned at the inquest at the West Maitland Courthouse yesterday into the death of Cyril Clive Maher, 36,…
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Courts & crime, 1938
3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 41 of 184
For Trial Young Man on Murder Charge Shooting of Musician Sydney
The Parramatta Coroner to-day returned a verdict that Albert Ernest Hedges, 64, a musician of Merrylands, had been murdered by Eric Alexander Smith, 20, who…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Crime Detection Reorganising Victorian Police Special Training School Melbourne
Drastic alterations in the police force organisation are to be made in accordance with a plan drawn up by the Commissioner of Police (Mr. A. Duncan), who…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Catholics Now Repression in Austria Dignitaries Charged German Preparations for the Plebiscite (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, March 24
A campaign of repression of Catholics and Catholic institutions has begun in Austria. Catholic newspapers have disappeared and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Three Sent for Trial Gibson on Murder Charge: Others on Count of Aiding and Abetting Inquest Into Tragedy at Farley
Great interest was taken in the inquest held at West Maitland yesterday by the Coroner (Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd) into the shooting of Cyril Clive Maher, 36, of Capp-street, Telarah. Maher, a railway night officer, was shot at Farley railway station…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MAITLAND — KURRI — CESSNOCK West Maitland Circuit Court Unusual Position Might Arise Opening Late in Week
The Maitland Circuit Court is to open at the East Maitland Courthouse on April 21—a Thursday. An unusual position is likely to arise through beginning so late…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →"Did Men's Work" Share in Father's Estate Claimed for Girls Equity Court Application Sydney
Describing in the Equity Court to-day the work done by the children of the late William Potts, William Norris Polley, of Taree, declared that the girls worked like…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Rodney Design No More for Sydney Harbour Inquiry Court Told Shipwright Surveyor Gives Evidence SYDNEY
At the Marine Court of Inquiry into the sinking of the Rodney, the senior shipwright surveyor of the Maritime Services Board, Robert Stanley Westhorpe,…
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Cecil Cahir, 36, who had a number of previous convictions, was, at the Central Police Court to-day, sentenced to six months' imprisonment on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Court Friday, March 25 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Labourer Bound Over
Harold Leslie Maiden, 21, labourer, pleaded "Guilty" to having stolen £1/18/, the property of Reice Palmer, at Mayfield, on March 23. He was bound over in £10…
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After evidence for the prosecution and part of the evidence for the defence had been taken Mr. Soane adjourned the further hearing to April 6 in the case in…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Naval Court Martial Hospitality Was Excessive
For being drunk at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, England, and for behaving with contempt to Commander John Campbell Annesley,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Squad Was Active Hotels Had to Close To-day
Police kept a close watch on hotels to-day to see that the provisions of the law in regard to no trading on election day were observed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rode in Police Car Murderer Who Escaped from Asylum ADELAIDE
John Charles Stewart, 34, a convicted murderer, who escaped from the Parkside Mental Hospital on Wednesday night, was re-arrested at Angaston, on the Eden…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Killed Instantly Motor-cyclist's Death Accidental Witness Carried to Court
So severely was Robert Frederick Way injured in a collision between a motorcycle outfit and a motor-car on the Newcastle-Maitland road early on…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →No Coats or Shirts Witnesses at Darwin Court DARWIN
Taking the opportunity of Judge Well's intimation that they might appear in cool clothing, witnesses at a bade ware Inquiry to-day appeared in Court attired…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Clubs Raided by Police Visiting Girls Put in Cells Sydney
Two well-known night clubs were raided last night by the police. The "Black Marias" took 27 men and 13 women to city…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bonus Shares Subject to Special Tax High Court's Decision Melbourne
An important decision affecting shareholders in companies was delivered to-day by the High Court of Australia. The Court held that bonus shares of a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Negligent Driving Motorist Asleep at Wheel Appeal to Higher Court Sydney
An important ruling was given by Mr. Arnold S.M., at the Paddington Court to-day, when he overruled a contention that a motorist who became involved in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Stealing of Horses Is Alleged Butcher Denies Charges
A horse which was said by a witness to have been a racer "in the olden days" was the subject of a theft charge at the Newcastle…
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