Children Shiver in Schools Dept. Charged with Neglect Sydney
An endeavor is being made to force the Education Department to provide heating facilities in schools this winter…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1939
3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 57 of 179
Small Debts Court Plaintiff Non-suited
After evidence had been given by one witness, the plaintiff accepted a non-suit in the case in which Eliza J. O'Loughlin, of Swan-street, Newcastle, claimed…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →New Hearing Judge Desired Queensland Will Case Echo of Murder Trial Brisbane
Before Mr. Justice Macrossan, in the Supreme Court to-day, the matter concerning the will of Mrs. Margaret Jane Roche, licensed victualler, of Augathella,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →German Secret Police Order Five More Concentration Camps Berlin
The Gestapo (Secret Police) have ordered five new concentration camps to be built to receive 400,000 former Socialists and Communists regarded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Divorce Court 19 Undefended Cases Decrees Nisi Granted
Nineteen undefended applications for divorce were held by Mr. Acting Justice Hardwick at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Increased Margins Butchers Benefit by Court Award MELBOURNE
Butchers in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland will benefit by increased margins granted today by Chief Judge Beeby in the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Starting-price Betting Out of Most Hotels Licensing Inspector's Report to Court
A favourable report on the condition and conduct of hotels in the Newcastle licensing district was made to the Licensing Court, consisting of Mr. M. E…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Miner in Court Threw Gelignite on House Remanded for Observation Melbourne
Evidence that a man had regarded gelignite as a "kind of a cracker," and threw it on to the roof of a house, was given in the Bendigo Supreme Court…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Body of Missing Woman Found in Darlinghurst Flat Police Guard Man with Cut Throat Sydney
The body of Mors. Laura Cuddihy, 46, of Bourke-street, Darlinghurst, who had been missing since Friday, was found today in a flat in Barcom-avenue,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Reserves Sent to South-west Africa "Matter of Urgency," Says Minister Cape Town, April 18
The first detachment of police reserves who are to augment the force in South-west Africa have left Johannesburg. A special train is following that in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle Courts Tuesday, April 18 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Licensing Court Licences Transferred
The licence of the Hamilton Station hotel, Hamilton, was transferred from Alfred Henry Lewis to William James Maittlen…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Deportation of Aliens U.S. Supreme Court's Ruling Bridges Case May Be Dropped Washington, April 18
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that former membership of the Communist Party of itself is not sufficient grounds for the deportation of an…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Cobber Is in There" Dramatic Story of Piha Fire Rescue Attempt McKay and Talbot Before Court Wellington (N.z.)
"My cobber; he is in there," said James Arthur Talbot as he tried to enter a fiercely burning hut at Piha with a wet sack over his…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court
At the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., fined Henry Randall, 56, 5/ on a charge of drunkenness, and £2 for having behaved…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Court Wednesday, April 19 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Remanded
A remand to June 14 was granted in the case in which William Edward Delore, 48, war pensioner, was charged with having driven a car while under the influence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MAN & Woman for Trial Assault And Robbery Charges
Evidence that he was robbed of all his money, and his socks, by a man and a woman in an Adamstown shack on the night of April 14, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Jury Disagreed in Murder Charge Cairns
After deliberating for six hours and a quarter, the jury failed to agree in the trial of Peter Moran or Peter Vungeboy (52), on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Gaol Population Decreasing 8120 Under Sentence in Year SYDNEY
The report of the Controller-General of Prisons (Mr. D. Hinchy) for the year ended June 30, 1938, made available tonight by the Minister for Justice (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Police Reward Schoolboys Sydney
Two 15-year-old schoolboys—Raymond Paulson, of Technical High School, Ultimo, and Robert Baynes, of Randwick Intermediate High School—…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Gaol for Year Man's Long Drive in Stolen Car SYDNEY
After stealing a car from Seaforth, near Manly, James Douglas, 23, baker, drove it 2237 miles before it was recovered…
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