Share Pushing Conviction Appeal To The High Court Referred Back SYDNEY
"This Court sees no reason why the appeal to the Quarter Sessions should not proceed." said the Chief Justice (Sir John Latham) in the High Court…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1938
3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 62 of 184
Wages Tax Deduction Under Federal Awards Appeal to High Court Sydney
A case in which the mode of collection of £1,500,000 annually for State revenue is involved was heard before the Full High Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Collection of State Wage Tax Appeal Case in High Court Sydney
The State Wages Tax Act imposed the liability on wage earners to pay wages tax argued Mr Mitchell.'K.C. (for the State of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Labourer Remanded Charged with Murder of Wife MELBOURNE
Charged with having murdered his wife. Thomas William Lowe, 40, a labourer, of Mooroopna, was remanded to Melbourne from Shepparton Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →MAITLAND — KURRI — CESSNOCK West Maitland Two Years' Gaol Abermain Man Convicted Maitland Circuit Court
Remarking that the serious view which the Legislative took of offences of such a nature was shown by the fact that a maximum penalty of 10 years' penal…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Police Court Thursday, May 5 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Betting Offences
For having used a place in Samdon-street, Hamilton, on May 4, for the purpose of betting, Joseph Doyle, 39, a storekeeper, was fined £10, in default 20…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District Court Cases Not Reached
Cases listed for the present sittings of the Newcastle District Court and not reached would be heard next Thursday week, announced Judge Nield…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gibson's Fate Procedure Against Early Decision Farley Railway Murder Sydney
The Minister for Justice (Mr. L. O. Martin) will not see the official papers dealing with the death sentence on Thomas Dixon Gibson, 19, until after the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Communist Plot Uncovered by Greek Police LONDON, May 5
The Athens police claim to have uncovered a vast Communist organisation throughout Greece. They announced that of 74 persons…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →District Court Mail Contractor's Claim Second Day's Hearing
Further evidence was given before Judge Nield at Newcastle District Court yesterday in the part-heard matter in which Norman Sandeman, mail contractor, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Car Recovered, But Articles Missing Thefts Reported to Newcastle Police
Though a car that was stolen on Wednesday was recovered at Mayfield yesterday, some articles that had been left in it were missing…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →High Court and Libel Action Appeal Rejected Sydney
A person whose character or conduct has been attacked in the public Press is entitled to appeal to the same tribunal in his defence and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Comb-out in Palestine Military and 'Planes Assist Jerusalem
Troops, aircraft and police have begun a large-scale comb out of 300 square miles in Central Palestine as a result of recent murder outrages…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wages Tax Employers' Deductions Validity Questioned in High Court Sydney
Judgment was reserved by the High Court to-day on the appeal from a decision of Mr. Harrison, S.M., who held that wages tax was not deductable by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wallsend Court Thursday, May 5. (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Illegal Betting
A fine of £10, or 20 days' imprisonment, was imposed on Arthur Goold, 32, who pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having at Wallsend on April 30, committed a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mother's Confession of Son's Trade in Murder "Needed The Money" They Cut Up the Body in a Bath Tub New York
How she gave her son stimulants while he dissected the body of a victim was told by a woman in a confession to-day. THE woman. Mrs. Mary Eleanor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court Friday, May 6 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Case Part Heard
Evidence that a car ran over a raised pedestrian island near the tramline, hit a bicycle and snapped off a tramway stopping post was given in the case in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →S.M. Recognised Offender Sent to Gaol for Six Months Sydney
"It seems to be my ill-fortune that I have heard this evidence at various courts. I have had to convict this man on more than one…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Presentations at Court Cancelled London
Arrangements to present at court, two New Zealanders, Miss Kathleen O'Brien and Mrs. William Webster, have been cancelled by the Lord Chamberlain's office. It is believed that interviews which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mass Murder Woman's Dramatic Story Saw Son Dissect Body New York, May 5
The mysterious disappearance of four persons may be solved by the prison confession of a woman, who said that she gave her son an egg-nog to keep an his…
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