Search for Escapee From Gaol
SYDNEY, Thursday:—Cootamundra and Junee police have been searching in the Beathungra hills for a man who escaped from the Beathungra…
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Courts & crime, 1940
1,066 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 54
Allegation of Confession of Murder
MELBOURNE, Thursday:— A confession by Morris Ansell (19), of Carlton, of the murder of Alfred Thomas Atherton (35), hotel…
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Morris Ansell (19), whom the police alleged had confessed to the shooting of Alfred Thomas Atherton (35), was committed for…
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Edward Roy Weldon (25), labourer, was committed for trial at the Theodore Police Court to-day on a charge of murdering Alice Catherine…
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The coroner (Mr. J. McElroy) will, conduct an inquiry at the Lismore Court House at 10 o'clock this morning into the death of Stuart Thomas…
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A desperate fight to escape the electric chair has been started by the Camden, New Jersey, Baptist minister. Walter Dworecki, who was convicted…
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In Tweed Heads Court on Saturday Messrs. R. G. Collins and W. A. Morley, J's.P., sentenced Charles Dowling Gray, of Tweed Heads, to six months'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crowd Watches While Police Are Attacked
SYDNEY, Sunday:— While a crowd of 50 stood by, two policemen were assaulted last night while attempting to quell a brawl…
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MIAMI (Florida), Saturday:—The Federal Court denied the Hamburg-Amerika Line's request to transfer the German steamer Arauca to Key West,…
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William Frederick White (35), a stranger to Lismore, was fined £15 by Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., at the Lismore Police Court yesterday on two charges…
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BRISBANE, Monday:—Leonard Harry Kirk (22), roof tiler, was charged in the Police Court to-day with the murder of Mary…
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At Tweed Heads Court yesterday, Mr. R. G. Collins, J.P., fined Cecil Dodds (22), of Tweed Heads, a total of £2/15/ on charges of using indecent…
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LONDON, Sunday:—Ten men armed with revolvers raided Cork City Court House, held up the caretaker's family, broke into the record room,…
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When Max Newchurch came before the police court on charges of trespass and assault, the Police Prosecutor alleged that Newchurch was a deserter…
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At the Lismore Industrial Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., Lionel John Loadsman proceeded against Charles Rowan,…
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Ten men armed with revolver's raided the City of Cork court house and held up the caretaker's family before breaking into the record room,…
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"Apparently this man callously resorts to trickery to earn a livelihood when it suits him," said the magistrate at the Central Policy Court…
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Fourteen policemen had to be called to quell a disturbance which broke out in a lounge at a hotel in the city late this afternoon…
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At Mullumbimby Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. McEIroy, Police Magistrate, Keith Parry, of Ballina, was fined 15/-, and ordered to pay 8/-…
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In the Mullumbimby Police Court to-day. before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., Keith Parry, of Ballina, was fined 15s with 8s costs for driving an…
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