Police Kill Alsatian Sequel to Attacks on Stock SYDNEY
With the consent of the owner, police destroyed one of three Alsatian dogs which, it has been alleged, destroyed many cattle and sheep in the Blacktown…
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Courts & crime, 1939
3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 59 of 179
Herald Stop Press Train-loads of Police. London, April 20
Two train-loads of police arrived at Windhoek, the capital of South-west Africa. The police numbered 400, and were accompanied by armoured cars…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Lottery Prize in Dispute Court Injunction Is Sought SYDNEY
A dispute over a fourth share of the £1000, second prize in the State Lottery, drawn last Monday, was before the Equity Court…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Were Warned Fire on French Liner Foreign Sabtoge Blamed Le Havre, April 20
Despite official reticence, the French Press unanimously attributes to a foreign power the outbreak of fire which destroyed the luxury 34,569-ton liner Paris…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Night Journey by Police Inquiries About Missing Men Bag in River Contained Sheep Narromine
Police investigating the mysterious disappearance of three men from the Narromine district set out to-night on a 40-mile car…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Must Not Drive Car or Drink Court's List of "Don'ts" Sydney
Judge Curlewis in the Appeals Court to-day forbade a man to drive a vehicle, enter a hotel, or drink intoxicating…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Long Hearing Ends Miners' Claims in Court Judge's Task Will Not Give Speedy Decision SYDNEY
The Federal Arbitration Court's hearing of the miners' claims has ended. Judge Drake-Brockman to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Disturbance Not Likely Germans in South-West Africa Police Precautions Firm Action to Check Nazi Moves (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, April 19
The correspondent of "The Times" at Windhoek, the capital of South-west Africa, states that fears of a disturbance in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →One Month's Gaol
"I suggest that you go somewhere else and start afresh." said the Magistrate sentencing John Williams, 24, labourer, to imprisonment for one month…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Police Charge Fails
George Leigh Plain, Cleary-street, Hamilton, pleaded "Not guilty" to a charge of having failed to obey a signal given by Constable B. T. Rosted at…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Police Court Friday, April 21 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Indecent Language
"If you come batik you will have to find a surety because you have an unenviable record," said the Magistrate to Harold Robert Burns, 34, labourer. Burns…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Police Court (Before Mr C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.) Possession of Jersey Calf
The case was Concluded at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday in which Robert Grace, 32, of Louth Pork-road. West Maitland, pleaded "Not guilty"…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Murder Verdict Stands Poisoning of Husband SYDNEY
The Full Court of Criminal Appeal to-day dismissed appeals by Harold Percy Smith and Matilda Edwards against their conviction and sentence of death for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Raid Club Seventeen Men Arrested
Seventeen men were arrested by police who raided the B.C.U. Club at the corner of Hunter and Union Streets, Newcastle, at 10 o'clock last night…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Said Judge Was Vindictive Man Convicted of Murder BRISBANE
There was a scene it the close of the trial of Leonard Ernest Ryan, 25, labourer on a charge of wilful murder to-night. The jury, after four hours' deliberation,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →'Flu Cases Among Auckland Police Auckland (N.z.)
An influenza epidemic which is not of the pneumonic type has affected the Auckland Police Force. Forty police are laid up and are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Nine Arrests at Parramatta Police and Demonstrators Clash SYDNEY
A mass demonstration against unemployment at Parramatta to-night resulted in the arrest of nine persons. They were charged with having taken part in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Call for Police Dogs Assist Search for Mental Hospital Patients
The two male patients from Morisset Mental Hospital, one aged 75 and the other 56, who have been missing since Sunday, are still at liberty. They have…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Three Remanded Man Shot in Same Flat, Police Say Still in Serious Condition Melbourne
Two young women and a man, alleged to have been in a flat at St. Kilda when Raymond Betos was seriously injured last Saturday, were remanded in the Prahran…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Stricter Control Urged Aliens in Australia Espionage Danger South Australian Police Chief Warns Premier ADELAIDE
Stricter control of aliens is urged by the South Australian Commissioner of Police (Brigadier-General Leane) in a report to the Premier…
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