Gaol for Nazi Leaders Clime Of Heads In Sudetenland LONDON, March 14
Many prominent Nazi leaders from Sudetenland have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment by the courts of Dresden and Boehmisch Leipa…
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Courts & crime, 1940
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Police Seize £200 Worth of Jewellery Melbourne
Visiting the premises of a city jeweller to-night police took possession of £200 worth of jewellery. Some had been broken up…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Any Advance On A "Deener?" Police Auction Sale To-day
Sounds unfamiliar to normal routine boomed from the Police Station yard this morning. Something was afoot, and those with a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Drug From India In Hands Of Police LONDON, February 10
How a quantity of Indian hemp powder—often inserted into cigarettes—fell into the hands of London detectives was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Employ Girls During War Trustee Companies Ask Court MELBOURNE
An application by trustee companies for the right to employ temporary female officers to fill vacancies in their staffs caused by wartime demands on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In Children's Court in 1928 "Continued in Crime Ever Since" SYDNEY
A sentence of two years meant that for three months a prisoner had virtually to languish in solitary confinement, with two hours for exercise each day,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Auction Sale
Many bargain hunters attended the annual sale of unclaimed property at Maitland Police Station on Saturday, but there was not much assortment…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →To-day in the Courts Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.) Gaming House Raid
Thirty-five men were each fined £1 in default two days imprisonment, for having been found without lawful excuse in a common gaming house, known…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Auction Sale Variety in Offering
Visitors to the Newcastle police station yard on Saturday morning witnessed a strange scene. People on the hunt for bargains were crowded around a constable…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shooting in Cafe Man on Trial on Murder Charge Sydney
"This murder is a crime of the underworld, and some witnesses could tell more if they wanted or were allowed to," the Crown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Go to the Court Hughes to Miners Sydney
"The business of the miners is to approach the Arbitration Court. If. and when, they do, they will find that the Court is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unlawful Assault
Sidney Methora Elliott, 22, mill hand, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge that at Carrington on March 31, he unlawfully assaulted Ivy Elliott. He was ordered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court Fined for Negligent Driving (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.)
Donald William McMurray, of Vincent-street, Cessnock, was fined £3 for having driven negligently on the night of February 14…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Christian Pacifist Sent to Gaol Wellington (N.z.)
Rev. Ormond Burton, described as a Christian pacifist, was sentenced to three months' gaol at the Wellington Police Court to-day on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Communists Charged in New Zealand Wellington (N.z.)
The hearing of charges of having published subversive matter will begin at the Auckland Court tomorrow against N. Gould, described as Acting Editor of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Industrial News Enginemen's Claims in Court Sydney
Claims for an award for members of the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association came before Mr. Justice O'Mara in the Federal Arbitration…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Indian Again in Court London Shooting Charge LONDON, April 1
Udham Singh, who in on remand on a charge of having murdered Sir Michael O'Dwyer, former Governor of the Punjab, smiled at two Indians in Court…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Was Underworld Crime Prosecutor's Claim in Murder Case Witness Was Frightened at Line-up Sydney
Describing a city cafe murder as an underworld crime, the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. McKean, K.C.) suggested in the Central Criminal Court to-day that some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Small Debts Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.) Verdict By Consent
A claim for £10 11s, as damages arising out of a collision in Bar-street, Merewether, on November 16, 1939, was made by Thomas Clarence Marshall…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Interjector in Court Challenged Attitude to Dairy Farmers Stir at Milk Prices Inquiry Sydney
At the Milk Prices Inquiry to-day, an interjector from the body of the Court challenged the attitude of the Chairman of the Milk Board (Mr. R. H. Nesbitt)…
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