Small Debts Court Accepted Non-suit
For the plaintiff, Mr. L. L. Warland (Messrs. Reid and Reid) accepted a non-suit of the case in which Samuel George Bennett, of Dunbar-street, Stockton,…
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Courts & crime, 1940
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Murder of Wife and Sons Charges Against Invalid Pensioner BRISBANE
"If I had not shot them they would have killed me," Gustav August Martin, 52, is alleged to have said to the police when he was asked by them why he…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →"Police Urged to Get Cases" Bearing on Promotion Claimed SYDNEY
Competition in obtaining cases was being fostered in the police force, delegates to the Police Association's annual conference alleged to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police Escort for Coal Trucks Go to Brisbane Some Miners Resume Brisbane
Six mines in the Rosewood district are working, and it is believed that miners from three other big collieries are ready to resume if the owners prepare…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Saw Shots Fired at Man Witnesses in Coroner's Court SYDNEY
A 14-year-old boy and a man said in the Coroner's Court to-day that they had seen shots fired at a man at Jannali on March 2. They were testifying at the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"From Caesar to Caesar" Orr On Appeal To Court SYDNEY
"The Federal Government won't act, the coal-owners won't act, but they want us to appeal from Caesar to Caesar," sold the General Secretary of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six Months' Gaol
"Apart, from having no means of support, both of you are a menace to the State. One of you admitted having offence committed against him 12 months…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Kurri Police Court Farmer Left Fire Burning
Leslie John Beveridge, of Stockrington, pleaded "Not guilty at Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday, to a charge of having, on March 22, left a fire, which he…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Theft of Water Board Property
Newcastle police are investigating the theft of property valued at £9 and the destruction by fire of another £10 worth from the Hunter District…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Year's Gaol for Youth Sydney
At the Quarter, Session to-day, Horace Cottrell, 20, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for having broken into a store…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Police Court Wednesday, April 17 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Discharged
The Magistrate discharged the accused in the case in which Thomas Lewis, alias Homans, 33, a labourer, was charged by warrant that, being the bailee of a radio…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three Years for Assault and Robbery Sydney
John Elwin Jubb, who was stated to have played with the Leeton, Griffith, Woy Woy, Taree and Canowindra Rugby League football clubs; was contenced…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →To Stand Trial for Murder Sydney
On a charge of having murdered Arthur Lampshire, at Jannali, on March 2, Robert Hepburn was committed for trial by the City Coroner (Mr. Oram) to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Industrial Court Information Withdrawn
In the adjourned matters in which John Larkin, Secretary of Newcastle branch of the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union, had proceeded against Patrick L…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Boys' Club Concert for War Fund
Indications are that the concert to be held in the City Hall to-morrow night by the Newcastle Police and Citizens' Boys' Club in aid of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Registrar on Court's Policy Melbourne
The Industrial Registrar (Mr. M. Stewart) said to-day that no application had been filed with the Court by any party for a compulsory conference. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Studies in Nude Divorce Court Denial SYDNEY
Raymond Jeffrey Cowan denied in the Divorce Court that he had tried to form a nudist colony or had bought books of nude…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rothbury March Police Escort Mineworkers Mr. Hoare on Power House Position
About 200 men, representing miners' lodges in the Northern district, held a meeting outside Rothbury Estate last night. Led by the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Man Guilty of Assault Sent to Gaol Sydney
Leslie Turner, 35, a motor-driver, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment at the Quarter Sessions to-day for having assaulted two boys…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To-day in the Courts Newcastle Police Court Alleged Embezzlement
Samuel James Walters. 19, laborer, was charged by warrant with having, while the servant of the executors of the estate of the late James Archer,…
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