High Court Upholds Right of Sitting Member Sydney
The election of the Home Secretary. Edward Michael Hanlon. as a member of the Queensland Parliament, was established to-day by a judgment of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1939
3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 49 of 179
Police Diary Sealed Girl's Name Concealed Detective's Evidence at Trial Pages to be Steamed Apart SYDNEY
Evidence that two pages of a police-woman's diary had been Pasted together and sealed, so there could be no leakage from police headquarters of the address…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Storage Concession for Holiday Counsel's Doubts Court is Told of B.H.P. Experience SYDNEY
In the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day, when Judge Drake-Brockman resumed the hearing of the miners' log of claims, Mr. J. E. Cassidy K.C., on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Police Promoted
Sergeant J. P. Magnay. of Newcastle, and Constable First-class W MacAskill, of Hamilton, are included in the list of police promotions…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bankruptcy Court
Albert Graham Hill, of Denison-street, Carrington attributed his bankruptcy to sickness in his family, also to the fact that he had to keep a large family on…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Police Court Friday, March 31 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Remanded
On a charge of vagrancy, James Foran, 45, labourer, was remanded without bail to April 14…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Newcastle Police Officer Entertained
At a function attended by Newcastle police yesterday afternoon, Mr. A. A. Southwood, of the Superintendent's Department, was given a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Man Charged In Name Of Woolcott Forbes LONDON
A man charged at Bow-street Police Court to-day in the name of John Woolcott Forbes as a fugitive offender for a charge of conspiracy to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →McKAY at Court
Gordon Robert McKay, leaving the Court at Auckland the morning after his arrest in connection with the Pi[?]a bones mystery. McKay and James Arthur Talbot have been charged with improperly interfering with the body of Patrick Henry Shine at an Auckland [?]cemetery, on or about February 10. Both…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Value of Life in Court Sydney
Loss of his health was worth £5500 to a Metropolitan Water Board employee, in a recent Court action, but Government…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Chief Gives Assistance Boy Knocked Down by Car SYDNEY
The Deputy Commissioner for Police (Mr. T. J. Lynch) gave assistance to a schoolboy who had been knocked down by a motor-car in New South Head-road…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Move to Have Case Reopened N.Z. Man Convicted of Wife Murder Wellington (N.z.)
Efforts are to be made to secure a reopening of the case of Eric Mareo, who in 1036 was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife, but whose…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Woolcott-forbes in London Travelled by Plane Report to Sydney Police Sydney
It was reported in Sydney that John Woolcott-Forbes, who disappeared from Bombay a week ago, had arrived in London by aeroplane to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Minister Retains Seat High Court on Election Dispute Privy Council Now Sydney
The High Court to-day allowed a motion on behalf of Edward Michael Hanlon, Queensland Minister for Health and Home Affairs, to set aside the notice of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Axe in Murder Dam Dumosa Crime Police Inquiry for Five Men Melbourne
An axe was recovered today from the dam in which the body of a man, still unidentified, was found on March 24. The dam is on the property of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In The... COURTS Sent To Gaol
"You seem to make a speciality of stealing," said Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., in the Cessnock Police Court to-day in sentencing Harold James Dorse,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Baronet's Brother Charged London, April 2
Raymond Vincent de Trafford, a brother of Sir Humphrey de Trafford, was committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter as a result of the death of a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cessnock Police Raid
When police raided premises at Cessnock late on Saturday light, 33 persons were arrested. They will appear before the Cessnock Police Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court Saturday, April 1. (Before Mr. H. L. Curry, J.p.) Remanded
On charges of having stolen an overcoat, valued at £3/9/6 and a raincoat valued at £1/9/6, the property of the Coo-ee Clothing Co.; having used indecent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Father Repents on Deathbed Son on Murder Charge Brisbane
"I do not blame the boy," was the plea of a dying father alleged to have been made for his son, accused of shooting…
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