Hotel Murder Clergyman's Impassioned Plea at Burial of Victim Sydney
"If the man who shot this boy did it in error I ask him across the body of the dead lad to send a message to clear up the mystery which is…
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Double Murder Green's Appeal Dismissed Death Sentence to Stand Melbourne
The High Court to-day unanimously dismissed the application of George Green, aged 38 years, who is under sentence of death for the murder of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wagga District Court Wednesday, March 22 (Before His Honor, Judge Hill) Claim for Bricks
Walter Slade Hardy, trading as the Hardy Brick Company, proceeded against F. A. Wild, builder, for £178/18/6 for the supply of bricks…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court THURSDAY, 23rd February Found on Licensed Premises
Leslie Mulbolland was charged with being found on the licensed premises of the Railway Hotel on Sunday, 5th February…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga District Court
His Honor Judge Hill presided at the Wagga District Court yesterday. He heard two divorce applications and, having found the issues proved, will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Minor Court Cases
A NUMBER of minor cases were heard before Mr. H. Hawkins, relieving Police Magstrate, at the Leeton Court yesterday. They…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Investments Ltd. Rufe Naylor's Manager Fined £100 "Getting Around the Betting Act," Says Magistrate SYDNEY
fining Percy Da[?]el Lynch, office manager of Rufe Naylor's Investment, Ltd., the maximum of £100, Mr. Arnold, S.M., at the Central Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →McKay Before Court at Auckland AUCKLAND
A dramatic scene was enacted in the Auckland Police Court to-day, when Gordon Robert McKay, alias Tom Bowland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Settler's Object to Valuer's System Court Will Settle Point
BECAUSE of a point which has arisen in the conversations between the Willimbong Shire's valuer and settlers who have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To Be Heard At Last Claims for District Court
AFTER eight months of constant effort on the part of the Leeton Progress Association, the Minister for Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pensioned Off a Fit Man Rigours of Police Life Did Not Harm Him
At 50 years of age he was presumed to be beyond the arduous demands of police duties. But was he? Read what be says now-- five years alter he was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rattlesnake Murder Case Husband Sentenced to Death Los Angeles
Robert James, whose fiendish "rattlesnake murder" of his wife last year shocked the nation, has been sentenced to death by the Californian Supreme…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wagga Police Court Embezzlement Charge
At Wagga Police Court yesterday before Messrs J. Byrne and H. Moulang J's.P., Maxwell James Morns was remanded to Parramatta police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder Suspected
With a chaff bag drawn down over the head as far as the hips, the nude body of a man was discovered yesterday floating in the a dam on Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Local and General Assault Case
Before Mr. Hawkings, P.M., at Wagga Police Court on Monday, Frederick John Edis proceeded against Leslie Watts on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wagga Police Court Friday, March 24, 1939 Two Men Remanded
Maxwell James Morris was charged at toe Wagga Police Court yesterday before Messrs. J. Byrne and H. Moulang, J's.P., with having embezzled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Ball
The Wagga Police charity [?] which has been one of the most popular social fixtures in Wagga for several years, will be held this year in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wagga District Court
Before His Honor. Judge Hill, at the Wagga District Court on Wednesday, Walter Slade Hardy, trading as the Hardy Brick Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tammany Hall Leader Sentenced on Graft Charges New York
The former Tammany Hall leader, Jimmy Hines, who was convicted on graft charges, was sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from four to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bigamist Arrested Twelve Months' Gaol for False Pretences Sydney
Arrested a few hours after he had left Geelong Gaol, where he had served a sentence for bigamy, Douglas Stewart, aged 47 years, was sentenced at the…
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