Car Driver Charged
Gilbert Douglas Collins, 33, pleaded "Not guilty" to a charge of having on April 2 driven a motor-car in High-street, West Maitland, while under the influence…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1938
3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 47 of 184
Licensing Court
John Convery, of Teralba, was granted a transfer of the licence of the Kearsley Hotel at Kearsley, from Albert Williams Dains…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Man Committed for Trial on Murder Charge Newtown Case Police Evidence of Fingerprint Search Sydney
Myles Henry McKeon was to-day committed for trial by the City Coroner (Mr. Oram) on a charge of murdering Harold Tarlington, at Newtown, on February 17. Bail was not applied for, and McKeon will stand his trial…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.) Committed for Trial
Evidence that the accused had been paid 33 1-3 per cent. plus 5 per cent. for the sale of radios was given in the case at the West Maitland Court…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Court-Martial Reform?
The system of trial by court-martial is to be thoroughly investigated. The appointment of a committee of inquiry was announced in the House of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Small Debts Court
A verdict for £3/19/5, with £1/1/2 costs, was given against. Mrs. W. A. Randall, of Tighe-street, Waratah, when proceedings were brought by Kerr's Pty…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dramatic Statement by Man in Dock on Murder Charge Story of Quarrel Told in Court Sydney
When Eric Alexander Smith, 20, sheet metal worker, appeared at the Central Criminal Court to-day on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Not Accepted Treasury Proposal to Magistrate Order Against Bookmaker Lismore
At the Casino Police Court to-day, the Magistrate (Mr. H. Hawkins) refused to adopt a suggestion by the State Treasury that he make an order prohibiting Frank…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Licensing Court Licences Transferred
The licence of the Ocean View Hotel, Dudley, was transferred from Walter Percival York to Reginald Samuel Griffith. Alfred Henry Thomas was granted the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Speared Twice Native Lived : Faces Murder Charge DARWIN
Although he was speared through the abdomen during a tribal fight, an aboriginal. Johnnie survived to appear before the Darwin Police Court to-day on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Small Debts Court Ex-parte Matter
A verdict for the amount claimed, with £1/0/6 costs and £2/6/6 witnesses' expenses, was returned in favour of the plaintiff in the case in which William…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Tale of Hotel Peep-holes Sydney
A story about hidden peep-holes in a hotel gate was told in a Causes Court yesterday by a woman plaintiff…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Double Murder Mother and Daughter Victims Tortured Before Death Van Horn (Texas), April 4
A mother and daughter, prominent in Californian society, were the victims of a shocking double murder revealed to-day when their half-nude bodies were…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Was in Flight" Stock Exchange Member Victorian Police Belief Adelaide
The Victorian police, in the opinion of Mr. Muirhead, P.M., believed that Frank Savage, a member of the Melbourne Stock Exchange, was in flight when he was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In the Divorce Court (Continued from Page 7.) CAMPBELL v CAMPBELL
Mrs. Edith Esther Campbell (formerly McGill), of Roe-street, Mayfield, sought a divorce from her husband, Charles Clyde Campbell, a laborer, of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mexican Dispute Court Asked to Invalidate Expropriation Mexico City, April 4
Seventeen foreign oil companies have petitioned the Federal Court to invalidate the recent expropriation of foreign oil concerns on the ground that it…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Kurri Police Court Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.) Strangers Convicted
Walter D. Finn, 32, and Rex Ranson, 34, who were arrested at Mulbring early on Saturday morning, appeared before the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →MAITLAND — KURRI — CESSNOCK West Maitland Police Court Correction
In yesterday's edition, in our report of certain proceedings before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the West Maitland Court, in which Robert Clark Bryant was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Ex-American Sentenced In Russia MOSCOW
Albert Melville Trover, an elderly American horticulurist, went to Russia to assist with the fruit Industry. He became a Soviet citizen. Now he…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Ten Years' Gaol Merrylands Shooting Manslaughter Verdict Sydney
"Guilty of manslaughter under extreme provocation" was the jury's verdict in the Central Criminal Court to-day, when Eric Alexander Smith, 20, a sheet metal…
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