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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police said at Central Court today that a pensioner, asked why he had wanted to kill a girl, replied: "I thought the girl was not returning my affection. I felt I wanted to kill somebody and I thought it might as well…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BROKEN HELL, Wednesday.—William Willoughby was committed for trial by the coroner, Mr. Ward, today on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Reginald Sydney Clark, 25,truck driver, of 193 Waterloo Road, East Bankstown, was charged with feloniously…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A resolution that, in future, no member of the staff of Lismore City Council should be employed to police regulations made by an outside body without the full approval of council, was lost at the Lismore City…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following cases were heard by local magistrates at the Kyogle Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday. SIGNED THE PLEDGE…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.—An intensive police search for a man who allegedly assaulted two young girls at Enfield, near Ballarat, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Ronald Newman Cribben was committed for trial on a charge of murdering Mrs. Edith Hill, 73,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"THE FIGHTING KENTUCKIAN."——John Wayne Is the featured player in the virile western, "The Fighting Kentuckian", to be screened at the Star…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CASINO, Thursday.—A spent 32 calibre rifle bullet last night dinted a piece of corrugated iron outside the kitchen of a residence in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ronald Newman Gribben, 21, shearer, arriving at the Coroner's Court in Sydney this week. Gribben was committed for trial on a charge of murdering Mrs. Edith Hill at her flat in Macquarie Street, Sydney, on December 14…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday.—A father who shot his neighbour because he suspected him of interfering with his seven years old daughter, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday.—A young man who attempted to rob a bank at Mascot was sentenced at the Quarter Sessions today to seven…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA, Friday.—Swift action by the acting Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden, followed the decision of the Miners' Federation today to persist in calling weekly one-day stoppages as from Monday next. Immediately the miners' decision was announced, Mr. Fadden instructed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PRAGUE, Sunday (AAP).—The Prague state court has sentenced a group of Roman Catholic priests including secretaries to Archbishops…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—The three leaders of the Miners' Federation, Messrs. Idris Williams (general president), G. Grant (general secretary), and W. Parkinson (vice-president) will be summoned to appear before the Commonwealth Arbitration Court on Thursday on charges…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—Because of the maximum weight conditions imposed Dy the A.J.C. Committee, Comic Court has only 9.7 in Doth the Doncaster and Sydney Cup, weights of which were announced tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Haldane Robert Presbury, aged 50, found drunk in Geneva Street, and charged, on Saturday appeared before the Magistrates at the Kyogle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An 18 year old State ward, who threatened his guardian by saying that she would have to put on her running shoes or something serious…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TOKIO, Monday (AAP-Reuter). —Police arrested 379 Communists throughout Japan yesterday in simultaneous dawn raids on 424…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Summonses were issued out of the Federal Arbitration Court today charging three leaders of the Miners' Federation with contempt of court. The summonses declare that each of the three broke undertakings given to…
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