Analyst to Examine Exhibits Dumosa Murder Mystery MELBOURNE
After a conference with detectives to-day the Government Analyst (Mr. C. A. Taylor) went to Dumosa this afternoon to examine articles found in the hut…
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Courts & crime, 1939
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Gambling Machines Destroyed by Police Sydney
Police to-day smashed 43 poker, fruit and pin machine, valued at £3000. Destruction of the machines had been ordered by the Commissioner (Mr. Mackay), following Court decisions that they should be forfeited. As an object lesson to the public and other nations, the wrecking was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Small Debts Court Claim Against Butcher
A verdict for £1, with 10/ costs and £1/1/5 witnesses' expenses, was returned in favour of the plaintiff in the part-heard case in which James Leo…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Police Diary Sealed Girl's Address Kept Secret SYDNEY
"Two pages of a police diary have been pasted together and sealed," said Detective-Sergeant James, at the resumed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police on Wharf But No Demonstration Lord Runciman in Sydney Sydney
Police awaited the arrival of the liner Strathnaver to-day to frustrate any attempt to stage a hostile demonstration against Lord and Lady Runicman…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Court Told of Lovers' Quarrel Engagement Ring At Stake SYDNEY
After a difference with his fiancee, said Roy Grenville Mustow, 20-year-old railway porter, of Hurlstone Park, at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Teralba Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.) Information Dismissed
Leonard Williams, Kilaben Bay, pleaded "Not Guilty" to charges of having used indecent language within the hearing of persons, and having used threatening words…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Girl in Knee-boots (Continued from Page 1) Couple Who Quarrelled Police Re-examining Early Reports
There is the possibility that some of these identifications have not been checked. More than one fair-haired…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Foreign" Lottery Tickets Is Sale Illegal in N.s.w.? High Court Test Case Sydney
The High Court to-day reserved judgment in a case involving the point whether the sale in New South Wales of "foreign" lottery tickets is illegal…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Identification Issue Was Not Raised McKAY in Court Again in N.Z. "Was Abnormal Last Week" Auckland
A great crowd of people assembled in Auckland Police Court to-day, when Gordon Robert McKay and James…
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A sentence of six months' imprisonment was imposed on Joseph Miller, 22, at the Central Police Court to-day—the date he had originally fixed for his…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Police Court (Before Mr. R. Solling, P.m.) Convicted on Second Trial
William John Christian, 42, of Belford, was convicted at the West Maitland Court yesterday on a charge of having driven a motor-car in Parallel-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dumosa Murder Inquiries Melbourne
Sub-Inspector Carey, who is in charge of investigations into the Dumosa tragedy, said to-day that he was anxious to hear from a man who was recently collecting…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court Thursday, March 30 Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m. Illegal Betting
Joseph Nelson, 23, labourer, was fined £20, in default 40 days imprisonment, for having been in a street, the temporary bar of the Premier Hotel, Broadmeadow…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →"Italy Will Not Stay in Gaol" Says Mussolini London
"Pacts or no pacts, we will never resign ourselves to remaining prisoners in the Mediterranean," said Signor Mussolini in a speech at Cosenza during his southern tour. "Italy Is ready to stand up for her…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Pyjama Girl Clue Drover's Story to Police Clothing in Lagoon Day After Murder Dark Stain on Blouse to be Analysed SYDNEY
A drover has reported to the Albury police that he saw several articles of women's clothing floating in a lagoon off the Howlong…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Men Charged Damage to Hammersmith Bridge River Patrols Doubled London, March 30
Two men appeared at the Bow-street Police Court to-day in connection with the explosion yesterday which blew away portion of the centre of Hammersmith…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Small Debts Court Plaintiff Non-suited
A claim for £33/13/6 alleged due as damages arising from a collision between two motor lorries at the intersection of Bull and Dawson Streets, Cook's Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Jury Locked Up for Night Law Clerk Charged With Forgery Probate Documents Lismore
After five hours' deliberation a jury at Lismore Quarter Sessions failed to agree to-night and was locked up until to-morrow. The jury was that in the case…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Believed Plane in Difficulty Police Officer's Promptitude Sydney
The misunderstanding in several western country towns last night when defence aircraft were thought to be in…
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