Acquitted of Attempt to Murder Charge Melbourne
Carmelo Cemino, 38, an Italian laborer, was charged, in the Supreme Court at Ballarat yesterday, with having attempted to murder Frank Moane…
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Courts & crime, 1939
3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 52 of 179
Iraq's Regret For Murder Of British Consul LONDON
In a statement in the House of Commons, on the murder of the British Consul (Mr. Monok-Mason) at Mosul yesterday, the Prime Minister said that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Native Stoned to Death 500 Women Charged 458 Sent to Prison Durban, April 4
Eleven native women have been sentenced to six months' imprisonment and 447 to three months for stoning to death a native man involved in a money…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Heavy Fine for Jack Benny Gaol Sentence Suspended Jewel Smuggling Charges New York, April 4
Reversing his plea to "Guilty," Jack Benny, the cinema actor, was fined 10,000 dollars (£A2500) and sentenced to prison for a year and a day on three charges…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cabaret Shooting Inquest "Meant to Frighten Him" Man on Murder Charge Sydney
He had fired only to frighten Leonard, and not to injure him, said Leslie Cornelius Wilson, 29, at the inquest to-day into the death of Stanley James…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Committed on Murder Charge Night Club Case Deceased Claimed to Be "Standover Man" Sydney
Finding that Stanley James ("Micky") Leonard had died from the effects of gunshot wounds, "feloniously and maliciously inflicted on him at the Pirates' Cave Club by Leslie Cornelius Wilson," the Acting City Coroner (Mr. C. T. Wood)…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Man's Letter to Detective Saw Girl in Distress Was She Albury Murder Victim? Sydney
Detective Wilks, who has charge of the Albury pyjamn girl murder inquiries is still trying to identify the woman's clothing found in a lagoon off the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wax Figure of Pyjama Girl Women to Police Body in Bath Sydney
In a further effort to establish the identity of the murdered "pyjama girl," police will have a wax figure…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charges Not Proved Eric Campbell Still on Solicitors' Roll Full Court Majority Decision Sydney
The Full Court today refused to strike Eric Campbell off the roll of solicitors. It held that charges against him of perjury and complicity in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Court Thursday, April 6 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Indecent Language
Daniel Forbes, 53, a salesman, was fined £2, in default four days' imprisonment, for having used indecent language in Cowper-street, Carrington…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nephew's Death Maori Farmer Charged Wellington (N.z.)
An allegation that Paul Hadfield, 32, a Maori farmer of Rawene, had hit his nephew on the head with a separator disc-holder and killed him, was made by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Planned Meeting at Hut? Dumosa Murder Victim Cyclist's Talk to Jinker Driver Melbourne
The victim of the Dumosa dam tragedy is believed to be a cyclist, aged between 30 and 38, who told a man whom he met driving a jinker near Lalbert on March…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Expelled From England Members of German Secret Police LONDON, April 6
The Secretary for Home Affairs (Sir Samuel Hoare) told the House of Commons, that steps had been taken in recent weeks to terminate the residence in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Clothes Found in Lagoon Police to Dress Wax Model Identify Pyjama Girl Sydney
The police will dress a wax model in clothes similar to those recovered last week from a lagoon at Albury in an attempt to solve the identity of the Albury…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Petrol Theft Charge
Two young men were arrested and charged with having stolen petrol yesterday. They were released on bail, and will appear at the Cessnock Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cheques Returned by Post Police Intensifying Their Search SYDNEY
Balmain police to-day received a parcel by post containing all the cheques which Miss Kathleen Clough-essy had with tier when she…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shabbily Dressed Taxi-driver Fined By Court SYDNEY
Allegations against a taxi-driver that the filthy condition of his uniform rendered him "unfit to be seen in a public place" were made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Refugees Undermining Our Awards" Advocate's Claim In Court MELBOURNE
Refugees from Europe were undermining the Leather Trades Award, Mr. P. J. Sheehan, advocate for the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Attack on Police Methods Aubrey Sara Trial Resumed To-day SYDNEY
An attack on the methods of the police during a visit to a house at Rose Bay on October 9 last year, was made by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Assaulted and Robbed Claims Man Two Charged in Police Court
An allegation that he had been assaulted and robbed by two laborers, on the night of April 7 at Cardiff, was made…
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