Aboriginal on Double Murder Charge Nulla Nulla Attack DARWIN
Victor, an aboriginal, was committed for trial at Darwin on a double murder charge at Katherine to-day. It was alleged that at Maranboy, on…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1939
3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 179
Small Debts Court Judgment for Costs
A judgment in favour of Rees Williams, of Harriett-street, Wallsend, against Thomas Richardson, of Lake-road, Wallsend, was given for 9/6, the costs of a…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Pyjama Girl Mystery Police Moves at Walwa Sydney
Certain features of the Walwa (Victoria) and Albury Pyjama Girl tragedies are similar, say detectives, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal and Interlocking Interests Chart Produced In Court SYDNEY
A chart was produced by Mr. Orr (for the Miners' Federation) in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, designed to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Explosion Blew Hole in Roof Police Made Arrest Near Bendigo MELBOURNE
With a deafening roar an explosive substance burst on the roof of the home of Horace Wood in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Police Killed in Chase After Car Coroner's Verdict at Inquest SYDNEY
A verdict that they were killed in the execution of their duty was returned by the Coroner (Mr. G. R. Williams) to-day at the inquest into the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bones Mystery Man Before Court N. Z. Cemetery Case Auckland
The Police Court was crowded to se the arrival and departure of James Arthur Talbot, 38, who again appeared on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pyjama Girl Crime New Line of Police Inquiry Action After Farmer's Suicide Sydney
Police inquiries into the death of the Albury "Pyjama Girl" have been revived since the suicide of Richard White, 42, farmer, at…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fatal Police Chase Car Travelled at 80 m.p.h. Witness Says SYDNEY
A car that was being chased by the police was travelling at about 80 miles an hour, said Lindsay Alton Rumble, manager of the Sans Souci guest-house,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fight Council in Court Mayor and Footpath Charges "Give Evidence for Anyone"
The Mayor (Ald. G. W. Jenner) said yesterday that he was quite prepared to make local government history by appearing in Court to fight the Greater…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Search Intensified Police Convinced McKay Is Alive Big Force to Comb Wild Country Wellington (N.z.)
A big force of plainclothes police left Auckland at dawn this morning by motor-cars to make an intensive search of mountainous country between Rotorua…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Hours Issue Mine Surface Workers Strong Reasons Before Change Judge Reminds Advocate of Court's Principle SYDNEY
In the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day, Judge Drake-Brockman emphasised that he required pretty strong reasons, as far as surface workers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Theft of Coat Alleged
John Williams, 24, a labourer, pleaded "Not guilty" to a charge of having stolen! a leather overcoat, valued at £3, the property of Lindsay Adam, at Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Climbed Gaol Pipe London, March 2
Clifford Cleminshaw, 23-year-old prisoner, who escaped from a police escort near Hull last year, escaped again the other night — from Hull…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Court Friday, March 17 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) 150th APPEARANCE
"This is your sesqui-centenary," said the Magistrate to Thomas Docherty, 56, seaman after consulting his record. "It is a beautiful record—your 150th…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Cruel to Boy Parents Go To Gaol LONDON, February 25
Shut up for two years in a room, a 16-year-old Newport (Monmouthshire) boy was found by the authorities. His…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Watch Voters at Hurstville Sydney
After a campaign, as intensive as the State has known at any by-election for years, the electors of Hurstville are giving their verdict to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wild Days in Papua Magistrate Tells of Sea Wonders Hungry Rats Caught Crabs With Thier Tails Natives Kill Clerics
Public attention was probably never more focussed on New Guinea than at present. British New Guinea comprises 90,540 square miles. This represents about a quarter of the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bomb on Roof of Home Miner Before Court MELBOURNE
At the Bendigo City Court to-day, James Fairbairn, 42, miner, was charged with having damaged a building and endangered the lives of occupants by explosives…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Murdered Pyjama Girl No Link, Police Believe Farmer Who Took Own Life Sydney
Police are now disinclined to believe that Richard White, farmer, of Walwa, who committed suicide this week, was linked with the pyjama girl murder…
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