Widow Charged with Murder of Her Three Children
CAIRNS. Friday:-- In Cairns Police Court to-day, Isabel Scott West (44). a widow, on remand, was charged with the murder of her three…
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Courts & crime, 1938
2,031 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 102
Man Charged with Murder Death of Dalmation Miner
KALGOORLIE, Friday:-- After working without respite for days, Kalgoorlie detectives who have been investigating the death of Martin…
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LONDON, Thursday:-- Secret drilling in Milltown cemetery, Belfast, was alleged against 11 men, who were sentenced to-day at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Nurse's Theft Hospital Staff Under Suspicion
Stated by the police to have brought many members of the staff under suspicion, thefts from the Redhill County Hospital, Edgware, were disclosed at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Did Wiedmann Attempt to Murder Tricot ?
M. Berry, the examining magistrate, is trying to establish whether Wiedmann attempted to murder Collette Tricot, who, with her lover, Million, is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Make Arrest MULLUMBIMBY
Sergt. Stewart and Consts. McKinnon and Taylor, of Mullumbimby, last night arrested a youth at Brunswick Heads. He was to-day taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Unusual Police Charge at Coolangatta
What the police described as an unusual charge, only likely to arise infrequently in Border towns, was preferred against Charles…
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When James Lyons, 20, of Sydney, appeared in Mullumbimby police court yesterday charged with offensive behaviour no evidence was offered…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Sweating Children" Disclosures In Court LONDON
The "sweating" of young workers, such as was thought to be a thing of the past in England, was exposed by a minor case in a juvenile court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Luxury Court Opened in Scotland Edinburgh (By Mail)
Scotland's brightest and most luxuriously fitted court, costing £420,000, has been officially opened here. Every modern device has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Remands Police Court Charges
James Unwin (27) appeared before Mr. E. H. Kelly, J.P., at the Lismore Police Court on Saturday on a charge of obtaining a motor car from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No Inmates Since 1919 Famous Reading Gaol
A derelict gaol is no ornament to any town. Reading gaol is not quite derelict, nor even wholly disused. It shelters a district…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sentenced to Death Two Occasions Man Who Is Still Free
Michael Alex, aged 23, has been sentenced to death by two different juries; yet to-day he walks about a free man, says a New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →20 Years in Gaol Woman's Record Prison Gates Clang Again
Having already spent more than 20 of her 42 years in gaol. Daphne Graham Lorrimer, described as a film artist, of Maida Vale…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Use of Dogs For Police Work Planned for N.S.W.
SYDNEY, Sunday. -- In future, specially trained dogs will form a new and important feature of police work throughout New [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"It Was a Brawl" Man Charged With Murder
Sobbing as he stood in the dock, Joseph George Welsh (30), a French-polisher, of Rensburg Road, Walthamstow, was charged at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dance Hostess Remanded Theft of Jewellery and Clothing
Accused of perpetrating a confidence trick, a 23-year-old dance hostess was remanded in custody at Liverpool after bail was opposed on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letter Writing Ends in Gaol Man's Remarkable Obsession
Described as a lonely and miserable man, with an obsession that he was a victim of a conspiracy, Albert Thomas William Wright (52), a manager…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Face Shortage London Police Insufficient Recruits
Regarded all over the world as the finest police force in existence, the Metropolitan Police are finding it difficult to get sufficient recruits of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Story Was Hoax Police Investigations BALLINA
Following an investigation by Sergt. H. E. Snowden (Lismore) and the Ballina police, a remarkable story that a Lismore girl has disappeared after…
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